OF THE CULM OF DEVON. 



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Stigmaria ficoides, Sphenopteris distans, Cyclopteris tenuifolia. This flora bears a 

 strong resemblance to that of the Calciferous Sandstones of Scotland." 



We are indebted to Mr. John Edward Lee, F.S.A., F.G.S., for the discovery of 

 Trilobites in the lower Culm-shales of Waddon-Barton about two years since. 

 The spot where the discovery was made, and which, up to the present time, is the 

 only locality that has yielded these organisms, is the bankside of a steep lane 

 leading at right angles from the ridge-road between Chudleigh and Haldon, and 

 near the village of Waddon-Barton. 



These Goniatite-shales, which break up (as so well described by Sedgwick and 

 Murchison) into small cuboidal or prismatic fragments, are full of minute marine 

 organisms. A list of these had been prepared by Mr. Lee, and to this Mr. Robert 

 Etheridge, junr., and myself have contributed some additional species. 



The main interest consists in the fact that these Goniatite-bearing shales agree 

 almost exactly with the beds of corresponding age recently most carefully worked 

 out and described by Prof. Dr. A. von Koenen, late of Marburg (now of the 

 University of Gottingen), in a paper entitled " Die Kulm-Fauna von Herborn." 1 



Prof. Dr. A. von Koenen's paper is accompanied by two plates of Culm fossils, 

 but he does not give figures of the two species of Trilobites which he refers to the 

 genus Phillipsia, and he adopts the specific determinations of von Meyer and of 

 Sandberger, whose figures are, however, not very satisfactory. We shall refer to 

 these Culm species again further on. 



The following is a list of species obtained by Prof. Dr. A. von Koenen from the 

 Culm of Herborn, near Dillenberg : 2 



1. Phillipsia csqualis, v. Meyer. 



2. P. latispinosa, Sdbg. 



3. *Cypridina subglobularis, Sdbg. 



4. *Goniatites mixolobus, Phill. 



5. G. crenistria, Phill. 3 



6. Aptychus carbonarius, v. Koen. 



7. Orthoceras scalare, Gldf. 



8. *0. striolatum, v. Meyer. 



9. O. cf. giganteum, Roemer. 



10. 0. cf. incequale, Roemer. 



11. O. undatum, Flem. 



12. Orthoceras, sp. 



13. Bactrites, sp. 



14. Gyroceras serratum, de Kon. 



15. Nautilus, sp. 



16. Nautilus, sp. 



17. Hyolithes Roemeri, v. Koen. 



18. Terebratula hastata, Sow. 



19. Camarophoria papyracea, Roem., sp. 



20. 0. triplicata, v. Koen. 



21. Spirifer ? makrogaster, Roemer. 



22. Orihis concentrica, v. Koen. 



23. Productus cf. sublcevis, de Kon. 



24. *Chonetes deflexa, v. Koen. 



25. *C. rectispina, v. Koen. 



26. Pecten densistria, Sdbg. 3 



1 See Leonhard und Geinitz's ' Jahrbuch fur Mineralogie, &c.,' 1879, pp. 309 — 346, pis. 6 and 7. 



2 Those marked with a * are considered to occur in the Culm-shales of "Waddon-Barton, Devon. 

 Probably several others should also be identified, but they require actual comparison with each other 

 to determine this with certainty. 



8 Mr. Jno. E. Lee believes these should also be added to the Culm-list of fossils from Devon- 

 shire. 



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