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*Psammosteus arcticus KI.ER. 

 * Psammoateus complicatus KI.-EK. 



Great Coccosteomorph. 



Bothriolepis cf. hydrophila AG. 



Bothriolepis (?) sp. Large form 

 * Holopty chins Scheii KI.ER. 



Holoptychius cf. tuberculatus NEWB. 



Glyptolepis cf. paucidens AG. 



Teeth with dendrodont structure, presumably belonging to the preceding 



Holoptijch i idae. 



Osteolepis sp. 



Phtonia cf. cylindrica HALL. 



Badly preserved remains of plants. 



Higher in the series: 



Bothriolepis (?) sp. large form. 

 Tooth with rhizodont structure. 



Slill hight-r: 



Bothriolepis cf. hydrophila AG. 

 Glyptolepis cf. paucidens AG. 

 Remains of plants. 



To judge from the stratigraphical occurrence of these fossils no distinct 

 fannal zones can be distinguished, the lists showing only an impoverish- 

 ment of the fauna upwards. The lower fish-bearing horizon of Series 

 E is, according to KI^CR, of older Upper Devonian age, and as it is 

 situated in the middle portion of the Series n we must assume that this 

 series with its continental facies commenced in the lowest part of Upper 

 Devonian". The fish fauna of Series E is of a European rather than Ame- 

 rican character, 1 in contrast to the marine faunas in the lower horizons of 

 the Gambro-Devonian Series of Ellesmereland, which show a very close 

 American relation, with, however, the exception of the Middle Devonian 

 faunas which have a more European aspect 2 . 



The fossil plants of Series E have been studied by A. G. NATHORST, 

 and the result published in ,,Die oberdevonische Flora des Ellesmerelandes" 

 (this report no. 1, 1904). The following plants have been identified: 



*Lyginodendrnit Sverdrupi NATHORST. 

 Archaeopteris Archetypus SCHMALHAUSKN. 

 Archaeopteris fissilis SCHMALHUSEN. 

 Cfr. Sphenopteridium Keilhaui NATHORST. 

 Fragments of stems of uncertain systematic character. 



These plant remains indicate an Upper Devonian age. 



1 Riser: 1. c., p. 54. 



2 SCHUCHERT: Notes on Arctic Paleozoic Fossils, Am. Journal of Sience, XXXVIII, 

 1914, p. 467. 



