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Dr. H. Woodward — Discovery of Trilohites 



nomya-scliists.' About fifty species of plants have been obtained 

 from the Cuhn, typical species being Calamites transltionis, Lepido- 

 dendron veltheimianum, Sligmaria ficoides, Sphenopteris distans, 

 Cyclopteris tenuifolia. This flora bears a strong resemblance to 

 that of the Calciferous Sandstones of Scotland." 



We are indebted to Mr. John Edward Lee, F.S.A., F.Gr.S., for the 

 discovery of Trilobites in the lower Oulm-shales of Waddon-Barton 

 about two years since. The spot where the discovery was made, 

 and which, up to the present time, is the only locality that has 

 yielded these organisms, is the bankside of a steep lane leading at 

 right angles from the ridge-road between Chudleigh and Haldon, 

 and near the village of Waddon-Barton. 



These Goniatite-shales, which break up (as so well described by 

 Sedgwick and Murchison) into small cuboidal or prismatic fragments, 

 are full of minute marine organisms. A list of these had been 

 prepared by Mr. Lee, and to this Mr. Eobert Etheridge, jun., and I, 

 have contributed some additional species. 



The main interest consists in the fact that these Groniatite-bearing 

 shales agree almost exactly with the beds of corresponding age 

 recently most carefully worked out and described by Prof. Dr. A. 

 von Koenen, late of Marburg,^ and now of the University of 

 Gottingen, in a paper entitled " Die Kulm-Fauna von Herborn." 



Prof. Dr. A. von Koenen's paper is accompanied by two plates 

 of Culm fossils, but he does not give figures of the two species of 

 Trilobites which he refers to the genus Phillipsia, and adopts the 

 specific determinations of von Me^'er and of Sandberger, whose 

 figures are, however, not very satisfactory. 



We shall refer to these Culm species again further on. 



The following is a list of species obtained by Prof. Dr. A. von 

 Koenen from the Culm of Herborn, near Dillenberg : - 



1. *Fhillipsia (equnlis, v. Meyer. 



2. P. latispinosa, Sdbg. 



3. *Gypridina subglobulosa, Sdbg. 



4. *Goniatites mixolobus, Phill. 



5. *G. crenistria, Phill. 



6. Aptychus carhonarius, v. Keen. 



7. *Oithoceras scalar e, Gldf. 



8. *0. striolatum, v. Meyer. 



9. 0. cf. giganteum, Roemer. 



10. 0. cf. inaquale, Roemer. 



11. 0. uridatuin, Flem. 



12. Orthoceras, sp. 



13. Bactvites, sp. 



14. Gyroceras serratum, de Kon. 



15. Nautilus, sp. 



16. Nautilus, sp. 



17. Hyolithes lioetneri, v. Keen. 



18. Terebratula hastata, Sow. 



19. Camarophoria papyracea,Jioem.., sp. 



20. C. triplicata, v. Koen. 



21. Spirifer ? makr og aster, Jio&mex. 



22. Orthis concentrica, v. Koen. 



23. Froductus cf. sublcevis, de Kon. 



24. Chonetes deflexa, v. Koen. 



25. *G. rectispina, v. Koen. 



26. *Pecten densistria, Sdbg. 



27. *P. Losseni, v. Koen. 



28. P. prcetenuis, v. Koen. 



29. P. perovalis, v. Koen. 



30. Aviculopecten cf. papyraceus, Sow. 

 '31. Avicula lepida, Gldf. 



32. A. latesulcata, v. Koen. 



33. A. Kochi, v. Koen. 



34. *Posidonomya Becheri, Gldf. 



35. Myalina mytilo'ides, v. Koen. 



36. Area Rittershauseni, v. Koen. 



37. A. cf. arguta, Phill. 



38. A. Becheni, v. Koen. 



39. Poteriocrinus regularis, H. v. Meyer. 



40. Lophocrinus speciosus, H. v. Meyer. 



41. Cyathophyllum, sp. 



42. Listrakanthics Beyrichi, v. Koen. 



43. Vladodus striatus, Ag. ? 



44. Fish-jaw? 



1 See Leonhard und Geinitz's " Jahrbuch fiir Mineralogie," etc., 1879, pp. 309- 

 346, pis. 6 and 7. 



2 Those marked in Prof, von Koenen's list with a star (*) have also been noticed 

 by Herru E. Kayser in his paper as occurring in the Culm of Aprath and Herborn. 



