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Barr.; IMonograptus fimbriatus, Nich. ; Monograptus cyphus, Lapw. ; 
HH. Sedgwicki, Portlock ; I. millepedia, M‘Coy ; JL leptotheca, Lapw. ; 
MH. gregarius, Lapw.; Diplograptus palmeus, Barr.; Diplograptus 
folium, His.; and Climacograptus rectangularis, M‘Coy. 
These beds the author parallels with the Birkhill Shales of the 
South of Scotland: indeed this comparison is inevitable. He points 
out with great effect how these beds are trenchantly separated from 
the Lower and Middle Graptolite Schists by the complete absence of 
nearly all the genera of Graptolites that occurred within them, and 
the complete families of the Dichograptide and the Dicranograptide, 
while they are themselves characterized by the abundance of the 
family of the Monograptide, which here makes its appearance for the 
first time. 
The higher strata (Retiolites Beds of Tornquist) of the Upper 
Graptolite Schists are much more difficult of investigation, and their 
detailed study is as yet far from being complete. They are generally, 
but not exclusively, composed of greyish schists, more light than 
dark, with greenish seams, somewhat thick-bedded in character, 
occasionally including nodules of lime or marl. Their chief 
paleontological characteristic is the total absence from them of all 
diprionidian Graptolites with the exception of Retiolites. Among 
the monoprionidian forms the genus Cyrtograptus occurs here, for 
the first time; Rastrites however, appears already to be extinct. 
No physical section in Scania is known in which the relationship of 
the Lobiferus Beds to the Retiolites Beds is shown, asin Westrogothia. 
The lowest zones of the Retiolites Beds are probably the grey shales 
of Tosterup, which contain onograptus crispus, Lapw., in association 
with If, lobiferus, M‘Coy. In the typical Retiolites Beds of Tornquist, 
as described by that investigator, at Rostanga, Herr Schmalensee 
detected Retiolites Geinttzianus, Barr. ; Monograptus priodon, Bronn. ; 
Monogr. vomerinus, Nich.; Cyrtograptus Murchisoni, Carr.; which 
mark the Retiolites Skiffar everywhere in Westrogothia and Dalarne. 
This special group of fossils has often been met with at various 
spots in the district, both in beds of a harder and of a softer nature 
than those in what may be called the typical locality. The strata 
that afford them can be readily distinguished from the Lobiferus beds 
below, and from the typical Retiolites Beds above (with which 
Tornquist united them) ; and may be regarded as forming a distinct 
and separate horizon. 
The Retiolites Beds themselves the author believes to be separable 
into two main groups: (a) the strata with Monograptus testis, Barr. ; 
(b) the strata with Monograptus colonus, Barr.; though this is as yet 
not absolutely certain. 7 
At Jerrestad and Tomarp occur dark grey, more or less thick- 
bedded schists, resembling the Retiolites schists of Dalarne (‘Tornquist’s 
Spheroid-Schists). In these the commonest fossil is Monograptus 
testis, Barr. Its usual associates are Monograptus colonus, Barr. (or 
Galaensis, Lapw.), Monogr. priodon, Bronn., and a Cyrtograptus. 
These beds form the author’s “ Strata with Jonograptus testis.” 
The beds that have the widest geographical distribution in Scania 
