Oh. IX.] TABULAE VIEW OF THE FOSSILLFEROUS STRATA. 



105 



PRIMARY. 



( Terrains paleozo'iques.) 



19. 



PERMIAN. 



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 P 



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 PS 



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 fa 



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 PS 

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20. 



UPPER 

 CARBON- 

 IFEROUS. 



21. 



LOWER 

 CARBON- 

 IFEROUS. 



22. 



UPPER 

 DEVO- 

 NIAN. 



MIDDLE 

 DEVO- 

 NIAN. 



24. 



LOWER 

 DEVO- 

 NIAN. 



EXAMPLES. 



British— -1. Concretionary magnesian limestone of Durham and 

 Yorkshire (p. 459). 



2. Brecciated magnesian limestone of Tynemoutli Cliff, &c. (p. 



469). 



3. Fossiliferous magnesian limestone, -with Fenestella retifor- 



mis (p. 4G0). 



4. Compact magnesian limestone (p. 461). 



5. Marl-slate of Durham, with heterocercal fish (461). 



6. Inferior sandstones, with plants resembling those of the coal, 



hut differing in species (p. 462). 



Foreign — 1. Stinkstein of Thuringia (p. 458). 



2. Eauchwacke, ibid. (p. 458). 



3. Dolomite or Upper Zechstein (p. 463). 



4. Zechstein or Lower Zechstein (p. 463). 



5. Mergel-schiefer or Kupfer-schiefer, with P rotor osaurus (p. 



463). 



6. Eoth-liegendes of Thuringia, with Psaronius (p. 463). 

 Magnesian limestones, &c, of Eussia (p. 463). 



British — Coal measures of South Wales, with underclays enclos- 

 ing Stigmaria (p. 466). 

 Coal measures of Coalbrook Dale (p. 493). 

 Millstone grit (p. 466). 

 Carboniferous rocks of Ireland (p. 466). 



Foreign — St. Etienne coalfield, with erect fossil trees (p. 482) 

 Coalfield of Saarbruck with Archegosaurus (p. 506). 

 Carboniferous strata of Nova Scotia, with fossil forests, and 



land-shell Pupa vetusta (p. 511). 

 Appalachian coalfield, 720 miles long and ISO miles wide, with 



footprints of Cheirotherium (p. 509). 



British — Mountain limestone of "Wales and South of England, 

 with marine fossils, chiefly corals and crinoids (p. 514). 



Same in Somersetshire and Ireland, with fish-beds (p. 521). 



Carboniferous limestone of Scotland alternating with coal-bear- 

 ing sandstones (p. 466). 



Foreign — Mountain limestone of Belgium (p. 521). 

 Kiesel-schiefer and Jungere G-rauwacke of Germany, with 



Posidonomya Becheri (p. 522). 

 Gypseous beds aud Encrinital limestone, Nova Scotia (p. 522). 



r British — Yellow sandstone of Dura Den, with Glyptolamius (p. 



524, 533) ; and of Kilkenny with fossil fish (p. 524). 

 Pilton group of North Devon, with Spirifer clisjimctus (p, 



536). 

 Petherwyn group of Cornwall, with Clymenia and Cypridina 



(p. 53T). 



Foreign — Clymenien kalk and Cypridinen-schiefer of Germanv 



(p. 537). 

 Limestones of the Fichtelgebirge, with trilobites of the genera 



Brontes, &c. (p. 538). 

 Catskill and Chemung group of New York, TJ. S. (p. 544). 



British— Sandstones of Forfarshire and Perthshire, with . 

 cliius, &c. (p. 526). 



Bituminous schists of Gamric, Caithness, &c, with numerous 

 fish (p. 531). 



Unfossiliferous series of North Devon (p. 538). 



Ilfracombe beds with mauy trilobites and corals, and with ce- 

 phalopoda distinct from Upper Devonian (p. 538). 



Foreign — Eifel limestone with underlying schists containing 

 Calceola (p. 540). 

 Corniferous formation of Western Canada and New York (p. 



546). 

 Devonian strata of Eussia (p. 542). 



r British — Arbroath paving-stones -with Cephalaspis, Pterygotus, 

 and Parka (p. 526). 

 Lower sandstones of Caithness with Pterygotus (p. 531). 

 Sandstones and slates of the Foreland and Linton (p. 541). 

 Sandstones of Torquay with broad-winged spirifers (p. 541) 



Foreign— South African Devonian strata with Homalonotus, &c. 

 (p. 546). 

 Oriskanv sandstone of Western Canada and New York (p. 

 546). 



