SOME NEW DEVONIC FOSSILS 



BY 



r JOHN M. CLARKE 



Introductory note 



It is not a customary procedure of the writer to- issue preliminary 

 reports on investigations in progress, but to insure some 

 part of the results of labors extending over several years, 

 it seems well to make exception in the present case by pub- 

 lishing the following notes on some of the Devonic fossils that have 

 come under consideration during this time. Fuller accounts ancC 

 more elaborate illustration of them will follow in proper time and 

 without undue delay. These species are from the representatives 

 of the New York early Devonic formations in Gaspe, Province of 

 Quebec ; Dalhousie, Province of New Brunswick ; eastern and cen- 

 tral Maine. It may be added that they are the incidents of a some- 

 what protracted study of features in the Early Devonic Strati- 

 graphy and Physiography of Eastern North America and all are 

 believed to be new to science. 



TRILOBITES 



Dalmanites griffoni nov. 



In lobation of tail there is little to distinguish this species from 

 D. micrurus Green, and the general outline of the head and of 



Dalmanites griffoni 



the glabellar lobes is similar, but in excavating these fossils from 

 the compact residual clay into which the rock at the locality 



