148 DR G. W. LEE ON 



Class ANTHOZOA. 



Notes on the Carboniferous Corals collected in Nowaja Semlja 

 by Dr W. S. Bruce. By R. G. Carruthers. 



Dr Lee has kindly allowed me to examine the corals included in the collection 

 of palaeozoic fossils collected in Nowaja Semlja by Dr W. S. Bruce. For the 

 opportunity thus afforded of studying an assemblage of unusual interest, I am 

 sincerely grateful. 



These corals are all embedded in limestone, together with the rich fauna described 

 by Dr Lee. The specimens are fragmentary, but are otherwise in a fine state of 

 preservation. 



Notwithstanding the paucity of the material, five distinct genera and seven species 

 can be recognised. These are : — 



Aulophyllum aff. moseleyianum (Thorn.). 

 Campophyllum carinatum sp. no v. 

 Campophyllum kungurense (Stuck.). 

 Carcinophyllum sp. 

 Lophophyllum cherneyense sp. nov. 

 Lophophyllum sp. 

 Hexaphyllia m'coyi (Duncan). 



All of the above genera occur in Carboniferous strata, and, with the exception of 

 Campophyllum, attain their maximum development in strata of Upper Visean age, or 

 in the immediately succeeding beds (Yoredale Rocks of England, Lower Limestone 

 scries of Scotland, or lower Mosque nsis zone of Russia). The genera Aulophyllum, 

 Carcinophyllum, and Hexapliyllia are particularly distinctive, and it is also from beds 

 belonging to this general horizon that the species nearest to the Nowaja Semlja forms 

 have been described. 



The whole assemblage is clearly indicative of some horizon between the base of the 

 Upper Carboniferous and top of the Lower Carboniferous of the Russian classification. 

 This conclusion is in harmony with that arrived at by Dr Lee from his examination of 

 the other groups of fossils. 



Contrary to expectation, only one species can be definitely identified with a Russian 

 form, but it is quite possible that a more complete collection might show a closer 

 affinity to the Russian fauna than the present one does. 



Attention may be drawn to the revised definition of the genus Lophophyllum 

 that is here furnished, while the discovery of a Carboniferous coral, Campophyllum 

 ca/rinatum, with well-developed carime on the septa is certainly a point of 

 interest. 



