[LAMBE] GANOID FISHES FROM NEAR BANFF, ALBERTA Si 
be forthcoming with further collecting. The two species represented 
are provisionally described as new. 
The species from the Massive beds and their extension north- 
ward toward Johnson creek, constituting a fish fauna of considerable 
interest, are as follows: 
Celacanthus banffensis, sp. nov. 
Elonichthys cupidineus, sp. nov. 
Acrolepis letus, sp. nov. 
Platysomus canadensis, Lambe. 
Dr. E. M. Kindle, Invertebrate Palæontologist of the Geological 
Survey, has kindly furnished me with the following note as to the 
probable Lower Triassic age of the fish bearing beds, at and near 
Massive, on the evidence of their invertebrate fossils: 
“The following memoranda relate to the invertebrate fossils 
associated with two small lots of fossil fish collected during the season 
of 1915 in the Rocky Mts. near Banff, Alberta. The fossils were 
obtained from two localities respectively 13 and 15 miles northwest 
of Banff and designated as station 235 in Mr. Burling’s field notes 
and station 10 in my notes. Mr. Burling’s station is in the cut 
at Massive siding on the Canadian Pacific railway while my station 
is 3 miles northwest of Massive on the left of the trail crossing the 
ridge to Johnson’s creek. The rocks at both localities are dark 
grey, hard, sandy shale where unweathered, with varying amounts 
of lime in different strata. They weather to various shades of brown- 
ish or buff grey. The two localities represented by these specimens 
furnished in addition to the vertebrate fossils numerous specimens 
of invertebrates including a species of Lingula, various species of 
pelecypods and ammonites. These beds have been assigned to the 
Jurassic by Dr. J. A. Allan! The fossils collected from them, however, 
clearly represent the same fauna which I have collected from the 
Upper Banff shale west of the Bow River falls at Banff. I therefore 
consider these beds to belong to the Upper Banff shales instead of 
the Fernie as they have been mapped. 
“The Upper Banff shale has been referred in some of the recent 
reports of this Survey to the Permian. Since the original reference 
of the Upper Banff shale to the Permian was of a provisional character 
it has seemed desirable to re-examine the question of the age of these 
beds in the light of the additional evidence of the last season’s collec- 
tions. I have accordingly brought together all of the available 
collections from these beds including Prof. Shimer’s collection from 
1 Int. Geol. Cong. Guide Book 8, pt. 2, p. 191. 
