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Of the above named genera, Temuograptiis shows still in its branching 

 the nearest approach to the original dichotomy, the others possessing mostly 

 a more distinctly lateral mode of branching, and it also has still the greatest 

 number of orders of branches; hence it seems to be nearest to the 

 ancestral Clonograptns forms, and therefore may have been the radicle of the 

 others. 



In the American graptolite beds this group, which in Enrope is well 

 developed, is but poorly represented. A single other species besides the form 

 here described has become known, viz H o 1 o g r a p t u s r i c h a r d s o n i , 

 from the Quebec beds. 



Temnograptus noveboracensis sp. nov. 



Plate 5, figures ir)-20 



Temnograptus cf. multiplex (Nicholson) Ruedemann. IST. T, State Paleontol. 

 An. Rep't. 1902. p.556. 



In graptolite bed 2, representing the upper part of the Tetragraptus 

 shale, frequently occur fragments of a large branching 

 dichograptid of strikingly different habit from the asso- 

 ciated forms. As no entire specimen has been observed, 

 the structure of the rhabdosome could be obtained only 

 by a combination of fragments. This proves the form 

 in question to have possessed a short stout " funicle," 

 from which branched by dichotomy four long denticu- 

 late secondary branches, Avhich in long intervals bifur- 

 cated again. There were branches of at least four 

 orders. 



Description. Branches of first order short (5.5 mm), 

 stout; those of the second and following orders long 

 (50+mm), forming an angle of 130°. Branches of the 

 higher orders bifurcating under smaller angles, the latter 

 apparently diminishing with the increasing distance from the base of the 

 rtabdosome. Angles of 70°, 80° and 10° have been measured in various 



Fig. 35 Temnograptus 

 noveboracensis sp. nov. 

 Fragment of rhabdosome 

 showing bifurcations and 

 form of thecae. Deep kill. 

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