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Tentaculites cartieri nov. 



This is a large species with regularly annulated growth in early 

 stages only but with increase in size the annulations become vari- 

 able and of obscure outline, all the surface annulations and furrows 

 alike being crossed by very fine regular and equal concentric lines, 

 so that in respect to compression it is not remote from the Oriskany 



Tentaculites cartieri 

 The larger X2; the smaller, X3 



species T. elongatus. The internal cast bears the usual 

 conformation, suggesting a series of inverted and insheathed 

 cones. 



These shells attain a length of 35-40 mm with an apertural width 

 of 4 mm. 



Middle Devonic. Gaspe Basin, P. Q. 



Tentaculites scalaris Schlotheim 



Tentaculites scalaris Schlotheim. Petrefaktenkunde, p. 377, 

 pi. 20, fig. 8, 9; et auctorum 



There are no evidences of distinction between specimens of 

 Tentaculites found in the Chapman Plantation and this well known 

 Coblentzian species. Our specimens bear the strong rounded 



