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THE PALAEOZOIC ROCKS IN GERMANY. (Und 



GRours. 



Divisions. 



SUHWIVISIONS. 



Some Localities. 



CHABACTHniSTIC FossiLS 



British EaoiVALENTS. 



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Kmp.r. 

 MuscliclkDlk. 



Biinter-Snndslein. 



Upper Keuper and 



Sandstone, Gypsum, 



Lcttcnkohl. 



Stuttgart, Cohnrg, Golha, Erfurt, 

 Gottingen, Nurnherg, Walters- 

 hausen, JStc;. 



Mastndontosaurus, Metopias, &c. 

 (Labyrinthodonts)i Nothosaurua, 

 Simosaums (Gnaliosaurians). 



"Keuper" Marls and Sands of 

 Worcester, Leicester, Droitwich, 

 Nantwich, &c. 



Upper Miisclielkalk. 

 Lower, or WellenJtalk. 



Weimar, Wurzhurg. Jenn, S. & N. 

 of Hnr7., and around the Thii- 

 ringerwald, Eisenach, .'^rnstedt, 

 &c. 



Avicula socialis, Terehratulu vul- 

 garis, Encrinitcs liliiformis. 



(Wanting.) 



Upper. 

 Lower. 



Region around Thiiringcrwald and 



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of Chester, Liverpool, fitc, 



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Uunter-Schiefcr. 



Zedistein ami 

 Kiipfer-Schicfcr. 



Red sandstone, &e. 

 Schist, with impure 



Rauchwneke. Gypsum, &c 

 Dolomite, Zechsteiii. 



Around the Thiiringerwald, S. of 

 the Harz, &c. 



Around the Hnr?; and Thiiringcr- 



Germany. 



Calamitcs arenarius. 



Productus horridus, Spirifer ala- 

 tus, Strophalosia Morrisiana, Avi- 

 cula speluncaria, &c. 



Red and green gypseous marls 

 (Sedgwick). Yorkshire, Lanca- 

 shire, and Nottinghamshire. 



Brecciated & compact limestones; 

 Humhleton, Sunderland ; cliffs 

 from Hartlepool to Sunderiand. 



Rothe-Todte. 



Dituminons 



and 

 Copper Slate. 



Mansfeld, Rcichelsdorf, around 

 the Ilari and Thiiringerwald. 



Pishes. — PftlajoniscQs, Pygopte- 



rus, Platysomus, &c. 

 /(ep/ife*.— I'rotorosaurus (2 sp.). 



Mari-slote; Sunderland and Hart- 

 lepool (Durham), Knureaborough 

 to Manslield. 



Gran- and Weiss-Lie- 



gende. Conglomernto, 



Red Sandstone, &c. 



Around the Thiiringenvald, Mans- 

 feld. &c. 



Eisenach, Kyfhauscn, Rotheburg, 

 S. Harz, Halle near Dresden. 



Walchia and many other Permian 



plants, near Zwickau. 

 (Psaronites) Kyfhansen, S. of the 



Harz. 



Pontcfract Rock (Smith). Lower 

 Red Sandstone, &c., of Cumber- 

 land, Lancashire, Nottingham- 

 shire, Shropshire, Worcester- 

 shire, Staffordshire, &c. 



Stein-Kolileri. 



Floetzleerer 

 Sainlsteiii 



llerg-kn!k. 



Shale, Sandstone, and 

 Coal. 



Southern Harz. N.& S.Tliuringia. 

 Wetlin, llmenau, Westphalian & 

 Bohemian Coal tracts. 



Characteristic fossil plants. 

 Arcbegosaurus (2 sp.)- 



Coal-fields of Durham, S. Wales, 

 Lancashire, &c. 



Youngest Grauwacke 



Zone around the Rhenish Pro- 

 vinces, south-west part of the 

 Har/, Tauuus, and Nauheim. 



Schleitz. 



Fossil plants occasionally. 



Millstone Grit of Yorkshire, Der- 

 byshire, Lancashire, and South 

 Wales. Culm Series of Dcvon- 

 flbirc. Coai-measurea of a part 

 of Scotland. 



Posidonomva-schist. 



Platten-fomigeKalk. 



Kiesd-Schiefer. 



llerhorn, Rhine, near Grund, Harz, 

 Ratiugen, Arnsberg, E. of Hof, 

 Rhenish Provinces. 



Posidonoraya Becheri, Productus 

 semireticulatus, and others. 

 Amplexus coralloides, &c. 



Mountain Limestone Series (Phil- 

 lips), Culm Limestone of Devon- 

 shire, and Lower Limestones and 

 Coal of Scotland. 



■ Upper 

 Devonian. 



Middle 

 Devonian. 



Devonian 



Cypridin'^n-Schiefer, 



with peculiar land plants. 



(Krarneiizel -Stein.) 



Flint-Schiefer. 



Right bank of Rhine, Meckling- 

 hausen, Laasphe, Seltcrt, Weil- 

 burg, Saalfeld, and Saxony. 



Westphalia (Mestode, &c.). 



Cypridina serrato-striata, Cly- 



forms. 

 Goniatites retrorsus. 



Petherwin and Barnstaple Lime- 

 stone, Baggy Point Sandstone, 

 Upper Old Red of Scotland. 



Mard Slate and Schist uf Morte 

 Bay. N. Devon. 



Eifel Limestone and 

 Cak-cola-Schiefer. 



Both banks of the Rhine, Eifel, 

 Paffratb, Refrath, &c. Elbinge- 



Stringoccphnlus Burtini, Mcgalo- 

 don cucullatus. Coccosteus and 

 other tishes. 



Combe Martin, Ilfracomhe, North 

 Devon. Plymouth and Babbi- 

 coinhe, Devonshire slates (Aus- 



Middle Old Red Sandstone and 



Cornstone. 

 faithness Flags, with fishes and 

 plants. 



Wissenbach Slates. 



Spirifer Sandstone 



and Slate. 



(Syst. Ith^nan, Dnraonl.) 



Wissenbach and Caub. 



Coblentz and bank of the Rhine, 

 N.-Western Hara, &c. 



Baetrites, Orthoeerata. Goniatites. 

 Spirifer macropterus, Pleurodic 



tyum prohleniaticum, Cbonetes 

 semiradintiis, Phacops laciniatus, 

 &c. 



N. Foreland and Porlock, North 

 Devon, Torquay in S. Devon. 



Lower Old Red Sandstone, and 

 Conglomerate of Scotland*. 



Silurian. 



llaaeoftheSiiiirinns 

 (Burranfle). 



Limestones and 



Prague ; Eastern Harz. 



Trilohites ; 7r> species of the genera 

 Aciduspis, Calymene, Chcirurus, 

 Cypltnspis. Harpes. and Phacops ; 

 Groptolites and many Cepha- 

 lopoda in the lower beds. 



Ludlow 



and 

 W'eulock Rocks. 



Schistose Slates, 



Prague and Bohemia, South Tbii- 

 rinjrerwald, S. and W. of Saalfeld. 

 Steinaeli,Schwartzburg,Schleitz, 



Graptolitcs of many s|i,-cii-s. 

 mostlvDiplngr.ipsu^; nKnGr.ip- 

 tolitlms LiKlfMsis ; Triln)mc. of 

 the genera Tri.iuclmi., i;j,'li,ia, 

 Asaphus, Illictuis, Hi-inoiilpuri- 

 des, Agnostua, &c. Orthis. Lep- 

 ta;na, and other Bracbiopods; 

 Cystidete, Nereites, &c. 



Caradoc Sandstone 



and 

 Llandeilo Rocks. 



"Primordial zone" 

 Sdurian Basin. 



S. of Prague; South Thiiringer- 

 wald .' 



Paradoxides, Conocephalns, Sao, 

 Agnostus, Olenus; Orthis and 

 Cy!>tideffi. Fucoids. 



Lingula Flags of N. Wales (Stiper 

 Slones, Shropshire; W. flank of 

 Snowdon). 



Slaty and Quartzose 



Rocks (often green and 



purple). 



S. of Prague and Southeni Thii- 

 ringerwald. 



Fucoids the only fossils yet found 



L.mgmynd Rocks (Camhrian of 

 the British Geological Sur- 

 veyors). 



the SandHto 

 The hitumi 

 believed, t! 



ne equivalcii 

 ous and calL 



t"^o 



inelud.M in 

 has bi^eii u| 



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mian divisions of the Continent of Europe and England hciU 

 ■rl, that (he Ujiper Old Red of Scotland, as characterized bv v,-r 

 onian.— f. f. of the " Cy|iridinon-scliiefcr " of Gernmny and rhc 

 if Caithness, with their numerous ichthyolites and peculiar |>1 

 lassing down into the lower division; wliilst the. coarse hrcceii 

 the north of Scotland probably occupy the horizon of the Low 

 IS he maintained, it is manifest to every one who has sluilied t 

 " that they constitute full equivalents m time of all the deposits 



