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Devonian character is certain. The occurrence of the Monograptus- 

 specimens, of fragments of an Encrinurus and of Thecia sivinderenana 

 point in that direction. On the other hand a form like our Stenochisma 

 deckerensis arctica, shows an extremely near relation to . modestus 

 HALL which in New York and New Jersey has its chief development in 

 the New Scotland and Becraft members of the Lower Helderberg group. 

 Of other forms showing more Devonian than Silurian aspects may be 

 mentioned forms like our Proetus and Platyceras, though somewhat 

 similar forms are found also in the Silurian. Two other Arctic species 

 that probably can be regarded as Devonian types are the Stro- 

 pheodonta patersoni aniiqua and Gypidula coeymanensis prognostica 

 SCHUCIIERT. 



The chief stratigraphical result of this study is then that a high 

 Arctic representative of a fauna known from the middle part of eastern 

 North America is found, thus allowing us also to draw the region of 

 the sea for the period of this horizon over South-western Ellesmereland, 

 and in the character of the fauna or the rocks there is no evidence for 

 assuming that shores were present very near, or that it was not fully 

 open and salt sea. 



After the deposition of this series these conditions seem to change. 

 \Ve get coarser and more exclusively terrigenous deposits, indicating the 

 presence of land not very far distant. We may quote SCHEI for the 

 description of these higher beds: "Series B is overlain, both in Goose- 

 fjord and Walrusfjord, by Series C, the bottom strata of which consist 

 of alternate layers of light and dark marly shales, partly arenaceous, 

 whilst its upper strata reveal beds of pure quartz sandstone and argilla- 

 ceous sandstones. The total thickness of these strata amounts to about 

 1000 feet in Goosefjord, but is possibly thicker at Hell gate. Series C 

 cropped out also at the foot of the lofty plateau walls at the inner 

 sithmus (Indre Eide) and at Borgen (The Castle). In both these localities 

 it is overlain by a dark limestone and black shales, in part abundantly 

 supplied with fossils. This formation dark limestone and black shales 

 - is the lowest in a succession of strata (series D), which attain a thick- 

 ness of 1600 feet, and crop out in vertical section on both sides of 

 Goosefjord, from Borgen to the foot of Wolf peak (Vargtopp), and from 

 the inner isthmus to Stony Valley (Skrabdal) etc.". 



According to the studies before mentioned of OSCAR ERICH MEYER 

 we find within this Series D representatives of different Devonian 

 faunas, all related to New Yorker faunas and ranging from the Lower 

 Helderberg (probably from the middle portion) to Ghemung. According 



