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sicula also is either covered entirely or only exposed with its apex, as in 

 figures 17, 18 of plate 13. 



As Hall states that the tj^pes of D. constrictus have been associated 

 with D. patulus, it is possible that they may in part at least, represent 

 the constrictiform mode of preservation of that species. The forms, identified 

 by other authors with D. constrictus Hall, may be based on the con- 

 strictifoim appearance of still other species. 



Didymograptus nitidus Hall sp. 



Plate 13, figiires 1-5 ; plate 14, figures 5, 6 



Graptolithus nitidus Hall. Geol. Sur. Can. Rep't for 1857. p.l29 

 Graptolithus nitidus Hall. Canadian Organic Remains, decade 2. 1865. p 69, 



pl.1,fig.l-9 

 Didymograptus nitidus Nicholson {pars). Quar. Jour. Geol. Soc. 1868. 



24:135 

 Non Didymograptus nitidus Nicholson. Ann. and Mag. Nat. Hist, ser.4. 



1870. V.5, p.342, fig.3a-c 

 ?Didjmograptus nitidus Etheridge jr. Ann. and Mag. Nat. Hist, ser.4. 



1874. 14:6, pl.3, fig.20 

 Didymograptus nitidus Herrmann. Geol Mag. Dec. 3, 1886. 3:15 

 Didymograptus nitidus Barrois. Ann. de la Soc. Geol. du Nord. 1892, 



t.20, p.91 

 Didymograptus nitidus Matthew. Roy. Soc. Can. Proc. and Trans. 1893. 



11:114 

 Didymograptus nitidus Elles {pars). Quar. Jour. Geol. Soc. 1896. 



54:499-502; p.500, fig.19 ; p.501, fig.20 

 Didymograptus nitidus Gurley. Jour. Geol. 1896. 4:295 

 Didymograptus nitidus Elles & Wood. Monogr. Brit. Grapt. pt 1. Pal. 



Soc. vol. for 1901. p. 10, pl.l, tig.2a-c 

 Didymograptus nitidus Ruedemann. N. Y. State Paleontol. An. Rep't. 1902. 



p.554, 556 



Description. Primary disk small (diameter about 3 mm), subcircular, 

 tenuously chitinous, with a central node from which the short, thin nema 

 proceeds. Sicula broad and short (about 1.3 mm long), branches diverging 

 in their proximal parts under angles varying between 100" and 1 80° to a dis- 



