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Dr. Thomas Shapter, writing in 1842 (' Climate of South Devon' 

 p. 173), says : — 



'This formation contains many vegetable impressions, of which the chief 

 are Cyperites bicarinata, Pecopteris lonchiiica, the knots, apparently, of a 

 Sigillaria, and a great variety of Calamites, as well as Goniatitcs, and other 

 marine fossils. These usually occur in somewhat flattened concretionary 

 nodules, which are found both in the soft and hard beds, and in many cases 

 seem to have constituted nuclei, around which the oxide of iron, alumina, 

 iron pyrites, and other minerals of which they are composed, have collected. 

 The neighbourhood of Pinhoe, near Exeter, has been very productive in these 

 fossils ; they have also beeu discovered in the same range of hills on the south- 

 eastern side of the Exe, near Oakford Bridge on the Creedy, at Cleeve, near 

 Newton St. Cyres, and near the Okehampton road, about 5 miles from Exeter.' 



In the second edition, published twenty years later, the following- 

 paragraph (p. 79) is added to the foregoing : — 



' In the upper beds of this series, at Pinhoe and Cleeve, casts of the beautiful 

 Goniatites inconslans occasionally occur with numerous little fossils about the 

 si/e of a large shot, which have been regarded (Parfitt) as the eggs of a marine 

 animal.' [Probably young goniatites.] 



In the Tloyal Albert Memorial Museum at Exeter there are a few 

 Culm fossils, presented many years ago by the Devon & Exeter 

 Institution. Those of them which came from the neighbourhood 

 of Exeter have been named by Mr. Crick, and comprise : — 



(1) A solid goniatite found in a pebble [nodule?] near Cowley Bridge, 



Exeter. J. T. Underbill. 



Glyphioceras phillipsi Foord & Crick. 



(2) A solid goniatite, No. 6834, locality unrecorded. 



Glyphioceras inconstans (J. Phillips). 



(3) Eight small goniatites, No. 4541, labelled ' Exeter. J. T. Underbill.' 



Dimorphoceras (? discrepans Brown sp.). 

 Glyphioceras striolatum (J. Phillips). 



(4) Two goniatites labelled 'Dunsford Road, above Pocombe Bridge, Exeter. 



J. T. Underbill.' 



Glyphioceras reticulatum (J. Phillips). 

 Glyphioceras striolatum (J. Phillips). 



The collection of the late "W. Vicary contains some specimens of 

 goniatites, which are thus mentioned in the Survey Memoir: — 



' Reference has been made to evidences of close connection amounting to 

 a passage from the shales and grits of the Exeter type downward into the 

 Basement beds. In Mr. Yicary's collection, Goniatites labelled from three 

 localities in which there are no signs of the occurrence of characteristic 

 Basement beds point to this. The localities are Cocktree Moor, near North 

 Tawton, on the southern border of the New Red Yalley of Crediton in Sheet 

 324; near Pinhoe Church in raddled shales and grits ; in the cliff by Bonhay 

 Road, Exeter. The writer visited Pinhoe and the Bonhay Road section re- 

 cently, but beyond occasional plant-traces his search was unrewarded by the 

 discovery of fossils.' l 



The Champernowne Collection, recently acquired by the 

 authorities of the British Museum, contained no Culm fossils 

 from this district. 



1 W. A. E. Ussher, ' The Geology of the Country around Exeter ' Mem. 

 Geol. Surv. 1902, p. 16. 



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