﻿Notes on Fossils f rom Prince Charles Foreland. 155 



Carboniferous formation of Spitsbergen a fossil which he 

 identified with '^Stenopora" ramosa, Geinitz.i- 



It has since been proved by Messrs Waagen and Wenzel 

 (/oc. cit., p. 882) that Geinitz's species does not belong to 

 Lonsdale's genus, and it is for the reception of this species, 

 and others of the group of Stenopora" columnaris (Schloth.), 

 that they established the genus Geinitzella, which is now 

 considered to be a synonym for Batostomella, Ulrich, a genus 

 established four years previously by Dr E. 0. Ulrich on the 

 basis of similar characters.^ 



Too little is known of Professor Toula's species to judge 

 of its true affinities. It resembles S. hrucei in the fact that it 

 forms branching zoaria exhibiting a well-differentiated mature 

 region ; it also approaches it in size, being as much as 

 13 mm. in diameter ; but, on the other hand, it sometimes 

 forms colonies of concentric layers, and appears not to 

 possess the moniliform wall-structure of Stenopora. Pro- 

 fessor Toula does not make any mention of that character, 

 which, moreover, is not shown in the enlarged figure, 3 1 

 (Tab. X., loc. cit). On such large zoaria, constrictions of the 

 tubes corresponding to swellings of the walls, would, if 

 present, have been detected with the aid of a lens. It 

 would thus appear that Messrs Waagen and Wenzel were 

 right when they removed Stenopora ramosa, Toula, to their 

 genus Geinitzella. 



BEACHIOPODA. 

 Strophomenidse. 



? Orthotetes or ? Derby a, sp. indet. 



A large Strophomenid is represented by numerous frag- 

 ments, and one or two complete brachial valves ; some of the 

 fragments belong to shells which must have measured quite 

 four inches in length. Unfortunately, no sufficiently well- 



^ " Permo-Carbon Fossilien von der Westkiiste von Spitzbergen, " Xeues 

 Jahrhmh, 1875, p. 246, Tab. x. figs. 2, 3. 

 Geinitz, Dyas, p. 114. 



" "American Palieozoic Bryozoa," Jour. Cincinnati N'at. Hist. Soc, 1S82, 

 p. 154. 



