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Brittany, France, considered to be about the base of the Lower Silurian 

 In Newfoundland, up to the present time, true primordial trilobites have 

 been collected, only in beds, the highest of which are full 2000 feet below 

 the lowest strata of Bell Island. 



I shall therefore describe the fossils of this Island as a distinct division. 



FOSSILS FROM GREAT BELL ISLAND. 



Genus Eophyton, Tordl 



l*'ig. 32. — Eophyton Linnseanumi Torell. Part of a slab or sandstone with several 

 fragments supposed to be of this species. 



The only specimen I have access to at present is a slab of sandstone, 

 about fifteen inches inlength and twelve inches wide, on the surface of which 

 there are about thirty stems of the fossil Most of these lie across the 

 stone in a direction nearly parallel to each other. They appear to have 

 been, when perfect, slender, cylindrical, straight, reed-like plants, about 

 three lines in diameter, with the surface longitudinally striated ; four 

 5tri?3 upon an average in the width of one line. Some of the stems, which 

 have been partially flattened by pressure, are coarsely grooved or fluted ; 

 but when the surface of such is perfect, the fine strite can always be seen 

 on the large ridges and in the furrows between them. When pressed 

 quite flat some of the stems only exhibit the fine strioD. I cannot see that 

 any of the stems are branched. One of them, which is pressed flat, is 

 bifurcated, but I think this due to the pressure, which has split the stem 

 into two portions. 



I refer this species as above, because it is impossible to distinguish it 

 from some of the figures of the Swedish form. As it occurs above the 

 Paradoxides beds, while the Swedish specimens, have as yet, only been 

 found below, it is most probably a distinct species. 



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