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Jll. angiilata La-gni-tsin.*' 



Macrochi'ilos arailatitni Schloth. Si-ni-kao. 



Dalniaiiclla striatnla Si-ni-kao. 



Spirifcr maycri Holzapfel {S. curvaius of Mansuy) Po-si, Si-n-kao. 



Athyris conccntrica Po-si. 



Cyatliophylluvi doiroillei Frech Ta-i-ti. 



C. Jialloidcs Frech Lo-nan.^' 



C. ceratitcs Goldf Lo-nan. 



C. vcrinicularc Goldf. Lo-nan. 



Cystiphylljtnt vcsinilosum Goldf. {C. sp. of Mansuy) Si-ni-kao. 

 Fazwsitcs crisiatiis Po-si. 

 F. .sp. ? 



Very few localities of Devonian fossils are known at present in other 

 parts of southern China, although there is great probability that the 

 sedimentaries of this age are distributed there also. 



The type of sedimentary succession in eastern Sze-chuar, southern Shan- 

 si and western Hu-pei has been given in one of the preceding chapters, 

 mostly based on observations by Willis-Blackwelder, Abendanon and 

 NoDA. The doubtful fauna of Ta-miau-ssii in a pink limestone, a local bed 

 either at the top of the Sin-tan shale or at the base of the Wu-shan limestone, 

 being excluded, there is no record of Devonian rocks in this vast region ; for 

 the Sin-tan shale, 540 m. thick which was considered by Willis and Black- 

 welder as probably representing Gotlandian and Devonian, is, in my opinion, 

 still older, the lower part surely belonging to Ordovician and hence the 

 upper part also to Ordovian or at most to Lower Gotlandian. 



On the other hand, there is an extensive development of sedimentaries 

 along the lower Yan-tze-kiang, which were referred by Riciithofen ta 

 Silurian and Devonian, though lacking any fossil evidence except the case of 

 of the Gotlandian rocks of Lun-shan, on the east of Nan-king, already 

 cited in another chapter. " Beiden Formationen rechne ich die machtig 

 entwickelten, wesentlich klastischen Schichtenreihen zu, welche teils 



1) La-gni-tsin = Lar.-nir.-tsin. 



2) Lo-nan = Sg-^ 



