EARLY DEVOXIC IIISTOKV Ol' NEW YORK AND EASTERN NORTH AMERICA 89 



record of successive anticlines as indicated b)' dip records on the maps 

 referred to is very instructive. 



I)r ICUs has specially noted the widening- of the belt of sandstones and 

 limestones at the head of the Nou\t;lle and Cascapedia rivers to a diameter 

 of 25 miles and its decrease eastward at tiic head waters of the Little Cas- 

 capedia and St Anne rivers to one half lliis width. Thence in its east- 

 ward sweep toward the coast the map we have referred to depicts the series 

 as broken, Ells having represented as Siluric tliat part of tlie Gaspe lime- 

 stones (.St Alban, Cape Bon Ami) which we here consider Devonic. On 

 ■Miner's brook, a western branch of the Cascapedia near the northern limit 

 of the basin and 15 miles west of the Gaspe-Rimouski boundar)', the 

 followinir fossils were found, as identified by I)r Ami [Report, 1884, p. 23EJ 

 Zaphrentis incondita J)/7lmos? Croniophora 



Ok\.\\\<> allied I o (). \anu.\emi J fall M)'tilarca 



Orthis aurelia Billings Ciraiini/vsia cf. G. sulcata Conrad 



Strophomena rhomboidalis VVilckcns Pterinea textilis var. arenaria Hall 

 S. sp. Cytherodon sp. 



Spirijcr gaspcnsis Billings Tentaculities sp. 



Rensselaer ia ovoidcs Eaton Dalmanites sp. 



-A.trypa reticularis Linnd 



The names in italic are species of the Gaspe sandstone on the coast. 

 The combination lacks the stronger middle Dexonic expression oi tiie 

 latter rocks and (if the sp;,'cies are all fr(jm the same betls) shows 

 noteworthy addition of forms from the fauna jjreceding. 



In Bonaventure count)', constituting the southern part of the Gaspe 

 peninsula, is the notable occurrence of the fish bearing beds on .Scaumenac 

 bay in the upper reaches of the Bay of Chaleur opposite Dalhousie, and 

 just southward over the line in New Brunswick, a similar development at 

 Campbellton. Dr Whiteaves' has given the history of these discoveries 

 and he too has in various papers described and illustrated this remarkable 

 fish fauna. The reader may find the entire literature pertaining to these 



'See his address as vice president, A. A. A. S. section E, 1899, p. 16. 



