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GEAPTOLITOIDEA 125 



Appendix to the Hydromedusae. 



Class or Subclass. GRAPTOLITOIDEA Lapworth.^ 



(Ehabdophom Allman . ) 



Under the term of Graptolitoidea are included organisms which have been 

 considered by various authors as plant remains, horny sponges, Pennatulidae, 

 Cephalopods and Bryozoans. Portlock, in 1843, first pointed out their 

 analogy with the Sertularians and Plumularians ; and his inferences as to 

 their genetic relationship were afterwards confirmed by the painstaking 

 researches of Allman, Hall, Hopkinson, Lapworth, Nicholson, and others. 

 More recently, however, their kinship has been denied by Neumayr and 

 Wiman, who, on account of the bilateral symmetry of the sicula and thecae, 

 claim that Graptolites cannot be included within any of the now existing 

 classes of organisms. 



Graptolites are generally found in an imperfect state of preservation, lying 

 flattened in the same plane upon the slaty laminae in which they are embedded, 

 and associated in large numbers. More rarely they occur in limestone, when 

 the interna] cavities are filled with calcareous matter, and the original form 

 accurately preserved. Such specimens have been successfully etched out and 

 investigated under the microscope by Holm and Wiman. 



The general skeletal tissue (periderm) was obviously flexible, and composed of 



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 the Quebec Group. Canad. Organic Remains, dec. ii. Geol. Surv. Canad. , 1865.— Introduction to 

 the study of Graptolites. 20th Ann. Rept. N.Y. State Cab. Nat. Hist., 1868.— Barrcmde, J., Grapto- 

 lites de Boheme. Prague, 1850. — Sitess E., Uber bohniische Graptolitheu. Haidiuger's Naturw. 

 Abhandl. , 1851, vol. iv. — Scharenberg, W., Ueber Graptolitheu. Breslau, 1851. — Geinitz, H. £., 

 Die Versteinerungen der Grauwackenforinatiou in Sachsen. Leipzic, 1852. — Die Graptolitheu des 

 mineral. Museums in Dresden, 1890. — lilchter, B., Tliiiringische Graptolitheu. Zeitschr. Deutsch. 

 Geol. Ges., vols, v., xviii., xxiii., 1853, '66, 71. — Nicholson, II. A., Monograph of the British 

 Graptolitidae, 1872. — Lcqjworth, C, Notes on the British Graptolites. Geol. Mag., vols, x., xiii., 

 1873, '76. Also various articles in Quart. Journ. Geol. Soc, 1875, '78, '81, and Ann. Mag. Nat. 

 Hist., 1879, '80.— On the Graptolites of County Down. Ann. Rep. Belfast Nat. Field Club, 1877, 

 vol. i., pt. iv. — Tnllberg, S. A., On Species of Didymograptus. Geol. For. Stockholm Forh., 1880, 

 vol. v. — Spencer, J. IF., Graptolites of the Upper Silurian System. Bull. Mus. Univ. Missouri, 1884. 

 — Tornqiiist, S. L., Observations on Graptolites. Acta Univ. Lund, 1890-92, vols, xxvii.-xxix.— 

 Holm, G., Skandinaviens Graptoliter. Svensk. Vetensk. Akad. Forh., 1881, vol. xxxviii. — Gotland's 

 Graptoliter. Bihang Svensk. Vetensk. Akad. Handl. 1890, vol. xvi. — Barrois, C, Memoire sur la 

 distriliution des gi-aptolites en France. Aunales Soc. Geol. Nord, 1892, vol. xx. — Wiman, C, tjber 

 Monograptus und Diplograptidae. Bull. Geol. Inst. Upsala, 1893, vol. i. (English translation in 

 Journ. Geol., 1893, vol. ii.). — Tornquist, S. L., Observations on the Structure of some Dipriouidae. 

 Fisiogr. SiiUsk. Handl., 1893, '97, vols, iv., viii. — Researches into the Graptolites of the Scanian and 

 Vestrogothian Phyllo-Tetragraptus Beds. Lunds Univ. Arsskrift, 1901, vol. xxvii. — Perner, J., 

 Etudes sur les graptolites de Boheme. Prague, 1894-99. — Holm, G., Om Didymograptus, Tetra- 

 graptus och Phyllograptus. Geol. For. Forh., 1895, vol. xvii. No. 164. — Ruedemann, R., Synopsis of 

 tlie Mode of Growth and Development of the Genus Diplograptus. Amer. Journ. Sci. (3), 1895, vol. 

 xlix. ; Also in Ann. Rept. N.Y. State Geol. 1894, and Amer. Nat., 1897, vol. xxxii. — Graptolites of 

 New York, N.Y. State Museum. Memoirs vii. 1904, and xi., IQOS.—Gurlei/, R. R., North American 

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 Upsala, 1895, vol. ii. ; also Nat. Sci., 1896, vol. ix., and Bull. Geol. Inst. Upsala, 1897, No. 6. 1900, 

 No. lO.—Elles, G. L., and Wood, E. M. R., Monograph of British Graptolites, ed. by C. 

 Lapworth. Palaeontogr. Soc, 1901 to date. — IlaU,T. S., Note on the Distribution of the Graptolithidae 

 in the Rocks of Castlemaine. Rept. Austral. Assn. Adv. Sci., 1894 ; also Proc. Roy. Soc. Victoria 

 1892, '97, '98, '99 ; Geol. Mag., 1899, vol. vi.—Roemer, F., and Freeh, F., Lethaea Palaeozoica, 1897, 

 vol. i. — Bassler, R. S., Dendroid Graptolites of the Niagarau Dolomites at Hamilton, Ontario. 

 Bull. Smithson. Inst., No. 65, 1909. — Westergard, A. H., Studier ofver Dictyograptusskittern. Med. 

 fr. Lunds Geol. Fait Klub. Ser. B, No. 4, 1909. 



