No. 2.] WFIITEAVES — NEW DEVONIAxN FOSSILS. 93 



ON SOME FOSSIL FISHES, CRUSTxS.CEA & MOLLUSCS 

 FROM THE DEVONIAN ROCKS AT CAMPBELL- 

 TON, N.B., WITH DESCRIPTIONS OF FIVE NEW 

 SPECIES. 



By J. F. Whiteaves. 



During the past summer Mr. R. W. Ells has been engaged in 

 a continuation of his explorations in New Brunswick and on the 

 north shore of the Baie des Chaleurs, on behalf of the Geological 

 Survey of Canada, while 3Ir. A. H. Foord was occupied in 

 making; additional collections of the fossil fishes of Scaumenac 

 Bay for the museum of the same institution. Towards the latter 

 end of June Mr. Ells discovered remains of fishes, which he cor- 

 rectly supposed to belong to the genus Ceplialaspis, in argillaceous 

 and brecciated limestones * on the south bank of the Restigouche 

 river, about half a mile above Campbellton. At the first oppor- 

 tunity this discovery was communicated to Mr. Foord, who at 

 once visited the locality and devoted a week to a thorough ex- 

 amination of the fish-bearing beds. From these deposits he 

 obtained a large number of specimens of Cephalaspis, a fine 

 series of cranial shields and detached plates of a species of Coc- 

 costeus, fin spines of Ctenacanthus and Ilomacanthus, fish teeth, 

 entomostraca, fragments of a large Fteri/gotus, a Spirorbis, and 

 two small species of gasteropoda. 



From the same rocks Principal Dawson has since collected a 

 number of fossil fishes, &c., which he has kindly allowed the 

 writer to examine and study. This collection, however, has not 

 afi"orded any additional species to those already found by Mr. 

 Foord, although some of the specimens in it, and especially two 

 €r three of the shells of gasteropods, are in an unusually fine 

 state of preservation. 



Before these discoveries were made, the only fossils that had 

 been found in the Devonian rocks at Campbellton were plants, 

 and on the evidence afforded by them Principal Dawson has con- 

 cluded, first, that these deposits are probably of the same age as 



* The rock is for the most part a dolomitic agglomerate, passing 

 upwards into coarse shales, and associated with felsitic and trappean 

 beds. 



