146 Prof. Roemer—The U. Devonian in Devonshire. 
Lee has found an incomplete head-shield of a fish, which, from the 
sculpturing of the upper surface, is (certainly a!) Coccosteus. This 
specimen was exhibited at the Meeting of the British Association at 
Sheffield by Mr. Lee.? 
Limestone beds rich in Goniatites such as are here described, have 
hitherto been unknown in England ; their equivalents, however, exist 
on the Continent in the red Goniatite limestone of Oberscheld in 
Nassau, and of Adorf in Waldeck. Both at Chudleigh, and also at 
these German localities, G. intumescens is the most abundant species, 
whilst G. multilobatus is much more rare. Phacops cryptophihalmus 
is also not uncommon at Oberscheld. The character of the rock and 
the preservation of the fossils are also so similar that examples of 
G. intumescens from Chudleigh are hardly to be differentiated from 
those of Oberscheld or Adorf. Without doubt this thin-bedded 
limestone of Chudleigh, rich in Goniatites, belongs to the same geo- 
gnostic horizon as the Upper Devonian Goniatite limestone in Nassau 
and in Waldeck. The conformity in the development of the 
Devonian series in England and Germany is thereby demonstrated. 
To Mr. J. E. Lee belongs the credit of being the first to draw 
attention to this occurrence. The same observer a few years since 
discovered, near Torquay, a bed corresponding to the Goniatite marl 
of Bidesheim in the Hifel.* 
We have then in Devonshire, and also on the Rhine, the horizon 
of the primordial Goniatites, without Clymenia or the “ G. intu- 
mescens”” stage, developed in two forms. 
As a whole, then, by a comparison of the Devonian slate series in 
Southern Devonshire and Cornwall with that of the Rhine, we have 
the following parallel table. 
1 Tn reference to Mr. Lee’s specimen of dermal fish-plate, from the Upper Devo- 
nian of Lower Dunscombe, Mr. W. Davies, F.G.S., of the British Museum, observes, 
“There can be no doubt in pronouncing this fossil (Pl. V. Fig. 3) to be a median 
dorsal plate of Coccosteus, agreeing very well in general form with that plate in 
C. decipiens, Ag. (Table 8, Agassiz, ‘ Fishes of the Old Red Sandstone’), though 
probably nearer to C. oblongus ; but from the imperfect state of its preservation it 
would be unwise to attempt its specific determination.” 
2 Tn the black limestone, with G’. zntwmescens, at Bicken, near Herborn, fish-remains 
have been found, which probably belong to Coccostews. ‘The limestone at Lower 
Dunscombe is probably equivalent to this. 
3 See “ Notice of the Discovery of Upper Devonian Fossils in the Shales of Torbay,” 
by J. E. Lee, Grou. Mac. 1877, Vol. IV. p. 100, Plate V. I have also visited this 
locality under the guidance of Mr. Lee, and can testify to the complete relationship 
of the small fossil fauna of the red slaty clays existing close to the sea-shore with 
those of Biudesheim. [No one, we are sure, would be more annoyed than Dr. Roemer 
at the slightest inaccuracy respecting the discoverer of any bed; and he will, we are 
sure, forgive us for stating that Dr. Harvey B. Holl, in his paper on Devonshire, 
etc. (Quarterly Journ. Geol. Soc. 1868, vol. xxiv. p. 413), actually gives a section of 
this very bed (without correlating it), which he calls the ‘ Cephalopod bed” ; but he 
places it unfortunately at Waddon Barton, where several geologists have searched 
for it in vain. Mr. Lee, we believe, in his notice at Sheftield (the published report 
of his paper was only in abstract), referred to Dr. Holl’s section, and thought that 
Dr. Holl, had by some mischance confounded two localities within a mile of each 
other. As a fossil-bearing locality, Lower Dunscombe was hitherto comparatively 
unknown ; although Mr. H. B. Woodward, in his recently published Geology of 
England and Wales, mentions the discovery of Goniatites intumescens.—Ent11. | 
