498 MH. \y. A. E. rssiiEK on the devonian 



Cockingtoii Beds in the Lower Devonian on palajontological evidence 

 quite as strong as any furnished by the Torquay promontory, as may 

 he seen from the following discoveries : — 



In the red slates with grit-bauds at the south end of Goodiington 

 Sands : 

 Orthoceras. I Spirifer, 



Tentaculites. | Pleurodictjum. 



In the adjacent railway-cuttings (the site of Mr. WLidbo rue's 

 find) : 



Orthis. I Pleurodictjum probleiuaticum. 



Spirifer speciosus. | 



jN^ear Westerland House, south of Marldon, in red slates passing 

 into the Middle Devonian (Eifelian) : 



Orthis. I Pleurodictyuni probleiuaticum. 



Petraia. | 



In red slates ( resembling those at the south of Goodrington Beach) 

 south of the Ship Inn, Churscombe, by the highroad east of 

 Lower Westerland : 



Orthis. I Streptorhynchus. 



Spirifer s])eciosus. | Pleurodictyum problematicum. 



The above finds prove the position of the red slates of the Saltern- 

 Cove cutting to be at the top of the Lower Devonian. 



The following lists further prove their connection with the Cock- 

 ington grits. For the identifications I am indebted to Messrs. 

 Gosselet and Earrois, whose remarks accompanying the identifi- 

 cations are quoted : — 



In sandstones on the margin of Staddon plantation, near Cockingtou : 

 Pterina\i. | Spirifer hystericus. 



In shalv sandstones near Shortdown, north of Paignton : 

 Spirophyton. 



In red shales and sandstones between Chiu'scombe and Ramshill 

 Cross : 



Pleurodictyum. 



On Beacon Hill, south of Westerland House, in red and brownish 

 sandstones : 

 Nucula, ''voisine de X. Jcahkbergensis, Bausch, peut-etre Pala-oneilo du 



Coblenzien " (M. Gosselet's label). 

 Homalonotus. 



In a little quarry on Windmill Hill, north of Stoke-Gabriel, in slaty 

 grits resembling those of the New Cut: 

 Chonetes sarcinulata. 



semiradiata. 



Rhynchonella hexatoma, " voisine de daleidensis." 



daleidensis (identified by Prof. Kayser). 



Homalonotus gigas ('• Coblenzien inferieure"), 

 Pleurodictyum problematicum. 



In a surface stone in the same district: 

 Lepfaoia, " probablement I'espece que j'appelle Leptcenu spcUhuIafa " 

 (M. Gosselet's label). 



