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Palaeoneilo (Nuculites) folks Clarke 



Plate 7, figures 1-3 



Palaeoneilo (Nuculites) folles Clarke. N. Y. State Mus. Bui. 107. 1907. 



This is a species of the type of Nuculites branneri Clarke 

 from the Maecuru river 1 and C u c u 1 1 el 1 a ovata Sow. from the 

 stones of Horeb Chapel 2 but while it approaches both of these very closely 

 there is only~the barest indication in the specimens before us of the ante- 



Photo, by Charles bchuchert 



Devonic beds at Stewart's cove, Dalhousie, nos. 7 and 8. The northerly dip of the strata is 



rior clavicle shown by a slender depression in the sculpture casts while the 

 other characters of the shell are those of Palaeoneilo, even to the presence 

 of a slio-ht posterior sinuosity or oblique depression which brings it mtc 

 comparison with P. orbignyi Clarke from Maecuru 3 m which the sur- 

 face is covered with very fine concentric lines, and with a numb< 

 coarsely marked sinuous species from the Coblentzian. 



Horizon. Nos. 1 1, 12, 13. ^ 



'Archives do Mus. Nacional Rio de Janeiro. 10: 73, pi. 8, fig. 6-8. 



"Murchison. Siluria. Ed. 3, pi. 34, fig. 17. 



s Op. cit. p. 74, pl- 8, fig. 14-' 7- 



