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Dimensions. AYidth of cranidium 14.2 mm, length to base of 

 rostrum 7.5 mm, width of glabella 5.2 mm, yy\dt}i of largest 

 pygidium 5.5 mm, length 2.5 mm, width of axis 1.8 mm. 



Horizon and locality. In the black compact limestone pebbles 

 of Trenton age, in the conglomerate of Rpserdorph hill. (Group 

 5,6) 



Observations. This form differs from the only other Trenton 

 species, Ampyx americanus Saff ord and Vogdes/ in the 

 large anterior extension of the glabella beyond the fixed cheeks, 

 this being a longifront,the other a brevifront, using subdivisional 

 terms proposed by the discoverer of Ampyx americanus, 

 and in having a strongly convex glabella without the oblique 

 furrows of the western Trenton form. Our si)ecies is much more 

 similar to Ampyx h a 1 1 i Billings, from the Chazy limestone 

 of Canada and Vermont, with which it has in common the elong- 

 ate convex rather strongly carinate glabella and the shape of 

 the neck segment, but from which it differs in having a relatively 

 shorter glabella extending hardly beyond the fixed cheeks, and 

 by the semioval pygidium with distinct pleurae. Ampyx 

 normal is from the Canadian Quebec beds, has the fluted 

 rostrum and the rounded glabellar pits, but differs from A. 

 h a s t a t u s in its short glabella. The Rysedorph hill species 

 is much more closely similar to Ampyx rostratus 

 Sars (Ampyx sarsii Portlock) in general outline, keeled 

 glabella, long rostrum, long corniform cheeks, and according to 

 the detailed description by Pompecki,-' the elliptic impression on 

 either side of the base of the glabella, while it differs in having 

 the cheeks relatively broader and less contracted in the anterior 

 part, and the pygidium more rounded. This closely related 

 form is described by Portlock (loc. cit. p. 258) from the 

 fossiliferous schists of Tyrone (Ireland) which are regarded as 

 older than the schists with Diplograptus pristis and 

 Graptolithus Sagittarius, corresponding to our Nor- 

 mans kill shales in which the conglomerate is interbedded. 

 Angelin describes the same species from the '' rcgw Da Norvegiae 

 propc Christiania et in mmte Kinnckulle Ycsirogotlnae'' ; and 



» Acad. nat. bcI. Hhll. Vt(>c. 1»89. 4:166. 



9 TrJloblten fauna der Ost- und WestpreusslBchen Dlluvialgeschlebe. 189.1. p. 16. 



