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OLAF HOLTEDAHL. 



[SEC. ARCT. EXP. FRAM 



Phillipsastraea Scheii nov. nom. 



Phillipsastraea Verneuili M. EDW & HAIME. 

 *Favosites framensis LOEWE. 



Alveolites suborbicularis LAM. 



Syringopora nobilis BILLINGS. 

 *Syringopora Meyeri LOEWE. 

 *Dalmanella multistriata HALL. 



Stropheodonta varistriata CONRAD. 



Productella aff. lacrimosa CONRAD. 



Productella arctirostrata HALL. 



Productella subaculeata MURCH. var. latior GURICH. 



Atrypa reticularis LINNE. 

 *>pirifer Scheii MEYER. 



Spirifer eleguns STEIN var. 



Spirifer gregarius CLAPP. 



Spirifer inflatus SCHNUR. 



Rhynchonella princeps BARR. 



Di 



Spirifer bisculatus Sow? 

 Spirifer (Martinia) Urii. 

 Spirifer (Martinia) inflatus SCHNUR. 



As to the age and relations of these faunas, the following statements 

 are made by the two paleontologists: 



Db belongs to Lower Heidelberg, probably to the middle of that 

 division. 



DC must be of a distinctly younger age than Db, though no distinct 

 horizon can be fixed. 



Dd, De, Df point towards Uppermost Lower Devonian, and 

 lower Middle Devonian. 



Dg is of Middle Devonian age. 



Dh is, according to LOEWE, to be placed about the boundary of the 

 Middle- Upper Devonian. According to MEYER Dh as well as Di is of 

 Upper Devonian age and point toward Chemung. 



Prof. J. KLER in his paper: w Upper Devonian Fish remains from Elles- 

 mere Land" (this report no. 33, 1915) has from Dh described a cranial shield 

 of a fish Macropetalichthys Scheii KI^ER, and concludes as to the age of the 

 said zone that it should most probably be assigned to the transition 

 strata between the Middle and Upper Devonian. It does not 

 seem likely that so young a horizon as Chemung is represented in series 

 D at all. 



With transitional zones carrying sandstone beds the marine Series 

 D passes into Series E, consisting of at least 6 700 m. of sandstone, 

 whose essential fossils are scanty fish and plant remains. The former 

 have been described by KLER in the paper just mentioned. From the 

 middle part of the series are identified the following fossils: 



