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* Psammosteus arcticus KI/ER. 

 * Psamtnosteus complicatus Ki^:u. 



Great Coccosteomorph. 



Bothriolepis cf. hydrophila AG. 



Bothriolepis (?) sp. Large form 

 * Holoptychius Scheii KI/ER. 



Holoptychius cf. tuberculatus NEWB. 



Glyptolepis c-f. paucidens Aw. 



Teelh with dendrodont structure, presumably belonging lo the preceding 



Holoptychiidae. 



Osteolepis sp. 



Phtotiia cf. cylindrica HALL. 



Badly preserved remains of plants. 



Higher in the series: 



Bothriolepis (?) sp. large form. 

 Tooth wiUi rhizodont structure. 



Still higher: 



Bothriolepis cf. hydrophila Ac. 

 Glyptolepis cf. paucidens AG. 

 Remains of plants. 



To judge from the stratigraphies! occurrence of these fossils no distinct 

 faunal 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 KIJEE, of older Upper Devonian age, and as it is 

 situated in the middle portion of the Series n \ve 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 oherdevonische Flora des Ellesmerelandes" 

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



*Lyginodendron Sverdrupi NATHORST. 

 Archaeopteris Archetypus SCHMALHAUSEN. 

 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. 



