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Doctor Kayser described and named the following brachiopods :' 

 Orthis linnarssoni—Eoorthis linnarssoni; Lingulella sp. ; L. sp. 

 Of these, we have identified Eoorthis linnarssoni from the collections 

 of the Carnegie Institution of Washington Expedition to China. 



Doctor Dames described and named the following trilobites :' 



Agnostus chinensis 

 Dorypyge richthofeni 

 Conocephalites frequens 

 Conocephalites quadriceps 

 Conocephalites suhquadratus 

 Conocephalites typiis 

 Anomocare latelimhatum 

 Anomocare majus 

 Anomocare minus 



The material described by Doctor 

 ties in Liau-tung, as follows : 

 Sai-ma-ki {in situ) ; 

 Lingulella 

 Agnostus chinensis 

 Conocephalites frequens 

 Conocephalites quadriceps 



Ta-ling {loose rock in wall) : 

 Dorypyge richthofeni 

 Conocephalites frequens 

 Conocephalites suhquadratus 

 Conocephalites typus 



Wu-lo-pu {debris slope): 

 Dorypyge richthofeni 

 Anomocare planum 



Of the above we have identified 



Agnostus chinensis 

 Dorypyge richthofeni 

 Conocephalites suhquadratus 

 = Anomocare 



Anomocare nanum 

 Anomocare planum 

 Anomocare suhcostatum 

 Liostracus megalurus 

 Liostracus talingensis 

 ? Liostracus 

 ? Liostracus 

 Two pygidia, gen. and sp. undt. 



Dames came from three locali- 





Anomocare latelimhatum 

 Anomocare majus 

 Anomocare nanum 

 Anomocare suhcostatum 



Anomocare minus 

 Anomocare nanum 

 Liostracus talingensis 

 Liostracus sp. ? 



Liostracus megalurus 



in our collections : 



Conocephalites typus = Ptychoparia 

 Anomocare latelimhatum 

 Anomocare minus 

 Liostracus megalurus = Anomocare 



Doctor Dames compared the Cambrian trilobites with those of 

 Europe, America, and India, and concluded that the trilobitic fauna 

 of Sai-ma-ki and Ta-ling was about the age of the Scandinavian 

 Andrarum limestone and the Potsdam group of North America. 

 He did not find any Chinese species that could be identified with 



^ China, Vol. 4, Palaeontologischer Theil, pp. 34-35; Cambrische Brachio- 

 poden von Liau-tung. 

 " Idem, pp. 7-29 ; Cambrische Trilobiten von Liau-tung. 



