walcott.] SUMMARY NEWFOUNDLAND. 259 



Feet. 

 (8) The uppor stratum is also iu great part concealed, but large, angular-join tec 



fragments of it are abundant on the surface all along the summit level, 

 which are clearly in place, or only slightly removed. Some of these beds 

 appear to be from 1 to 2 feet thick, are rather coarsely grannlar, of a grayish 

 or greenish color on fracture, and contain crowds of organic remains, chiefly 

 a species of Lingula. Estimated - 80 



Total 476 



In No. 2 of this section I found, in 1888, a small species of Lingula (?), 

 abundant remains of Oruziana, aud an entire specimen of Oienus. Nu- 

 merous trails of annelids occur on the surfaces of the sandstones, from 

 one to six, inclusive. 



Mr. E. Billings described the fossils obtained by the Newfoundland 



J survey from Great Bell Island and named Eophyton julcesi, Arthraria 

 antiquata, Lingula murrayi, IAngulella t ajjinis^ L.f spissa, and Gruzi- 



ana similis. 1 



■ 



In the upper portion of No. 6 Lingula murrayi occurs in considerable 

 abuudance, and from No. 8 a large number of specimens of Lingula 

 spissa were collected ; Eophyton linnwanum Torrell and Arthraria an- 

 tiquata occur in Nos. 2 and 4. 



There is no detailed section given of the strata of Little Bell Island. 

 The section, as determined by the writer in 1888, is made up of dark 

 argillaceous and sandy shale, with beds of gray and dark sandstone 

 both thin-bedded and in massive layers. In the argillaceous shales 

 Lingula billingsiana is very abundant and ranges through about 150 feet 

 of strata. Toward the summit of the section on the west shore of the 

 island a species of Hyolithes, and a long, slender shell, that may be 

 provisionally referred to Liugulella, occurs in a light gray sandstone. 

 A few feet below this horizon a new species of Lingula was found in a 

 micaceous sandstone associated with the Lingula ? occurring below in 

 the shales. 



All the strata of Little Bell Island have a dip of about 7° westward 

 toward Great Bell Island. If this dip be retained and the section be 

 unbrokeu, the higher beds would pass beneath the strata on Great Bell 

 Island, at a depth of about 1,200 feet. Dr. Murray in the generalized 

 section mentioned, has given a thickness of 1,426 feet for the strata of 

 Little Bell Island and that concealed beneath the waters of Concep- 

 tion Bay before reaching Great Bell Island. 



A detailed section of the strata of Kelly's Island of what appears to 

 be the same series as on Little Bell Island is published by Dr. Murray. 2 

 A small Lingula (L. billing soni a) was found midway of the 713 feet of 

 strata. I found the same species to be very abundant iu the shales of 

 the lower portion of the Little Bell Island sectiou. 



1 On some fossils from (lie Primordial rocks of Newfoundland. Canadian Naturalist, new ser., vol. 

 «, 1872, pp. 1G5-47D. 



*Of the sequence and distribution of the formations. Report upon the geological survey of New- 

 foundland for 1868. St. John's, 1868; revised edition, 1881, pp. 157-159. 



