BRACHIOPODA. 



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tributed in North America, and has apparently not yet been recognized in Europe, 

 it appears in every South American collection of Devonian fossils that has 

 come under my notice. On the Amazonas it is one of the most abundant 

 and characteristic shells in both the lower (Maecuru) and upper (Erere) 

 divisions. It occurs also in the collections made by Prof Alex. Agassiz at 

 Lake Titicaca, in Bolivia, and by myself at Ponta Grossa, in the Brazilian 

 province of Parana, although in both these cases, as in that of Matto Grosso, 

 only a mere handful of fossils was obtained."* A. Ulrich reports that the 

 species was also found in Bolivia by Steinmann, near Tarabuco, and by 

 Sir'BEL in the valley of the Rio Sicasica.f The same author has identified this 

 shell in close association with Leptocalia flabellites, among fossils collected by 

 ScHENCK in the Bokkeveld Mountains, in South Africa. 



In North America, Vitulina pustulosa is restricted to the middle Devonian, 

 occurring only, so far as known, in the soft shales of the Hamilton group in 

 western New York. Even here it is not generally diffused, but its gregarious 

 habit is evinced by its abundance in the few localities from which it has 

 been reported. 



Gends a N a B a I a , Clarke. 



This name has been introduced in an unpublished account of the "Upper 

 Silurian Fauna of the Rio Trombetas, Province of Pard, Brazil,"^ for a Silurian 



Fig. 121. Hu. J25. Flu. 1-26. Flo. 127. 



Figs. l-'4-127. Andbaia Paraia, Clarke. 



Fig. 121. Exterior, sliowiog Uie bractiial valve. 



Fig. 12.V Profile of a somewliat compressed specimen. 



Fig. 126. Interior of tlie brachial valve; showing the cardinal process, crura, dental socliets and septum. 



Fig. 127. Inlemal cast of portion of the pedicle-valve; showing the mnscalar scars. (c.) 



* Nota sobre a Geologia e Paleontologia de Matto Grosso, pp. 7B, 77. 1890. 



t Neues Jahrbuch fur Mineralogie, etc., Beilageband viii, pp. 71-73, pi. iv, figs. 26-29. 1892. 



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