J. JE. Lee — Saliern and Büdesheim Fossils. 
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Though the following notice mav be very scanty, yet every well- 
founded attempt to correlate the beds palasontologically is worth 
sometliing ; and under this impression it may be desirable to place 
on record the following facts. 
All the old geological map» of the Torbay district colour a portion 
of the ground near the middle of the bay as Old Red Sandstone. Dr. 
Holl, in bis amended map of 1868 (Quarterly Journal, Nov. 1868), 
divides this “ Old Red ” into two parts — the “ Lower South Devon ” 
or the slates, etc., under the middle limestone, and the “ Upper South 
Devon ” or those above it ; and he makes the first or the Lower South 
Devon (of which the Mudstone shales are a type) to touch the shore 
near or in Saltern Cove. These red shales, however, are tilted up 
at rather a sharp angle, and are covered unconformably by the nearly 
horizontal beds of Exeter conglomerate, so that this fact alone 
renders it very improbable that they are the same as the Mudstone 
shales, and the following evidence from fossils seems to confirm this. 
For some time Goniatites have been known to have been found 
here, but they are exceedingly local ; 1 in fact, so mueb so that, 
notwithstanding repeated searches, I never could discover them tili 
my friend, Capt. Bedford, R.N., of Paignton, and a young geologist, 
a friend of his, directed me where to look. The space where they 
are found appears very limited, but still we soon secured a nurnber 
of small Goniatites and a few other shells. From tbe very first the 
appearance of these Goniatites reminded me strongly of those 
found in such abundauce in the well-known beds of shale at 
Büdesheim in the Eifel, where a friend and I had worked in 
1875, and where, in the course of a few hours, we were fortunate 
enough to secure a large nurnber. It need hardly be said with what 
pleasure we discovered at Saltern the well-known minute shell 
Cardium palmatum , almost, if not entirely, characteristic of the 
German shale at Büdesheim, and this discovery was followed by 
others, so that, before the day was finished, we obtained from this 
very limited locality some eight or ten species apparently identical 
with those found at Büdesheim. I have determined the following 
species as occurring at both places. 2 (See Plate V.) 
Orlhoeeras Sehlolheimi, Quenst. 
Goniatites auris, Quenst. 
retrorsus, Quenst. 
Ausavensis, Stein. 
prwniensis, Stein. 
Goniatites Gerolsteinus, Stein. 
primordialis, Quenst. 
sp. (near to auris). 
Pluerotomaria turbinea, Stein. 
Cardium palmatum. 
These facts appear to me of great interest, and though I dare not 
say that the occurrence of these eight or ten species in the two 
localities absolutely identify the beds of Saltern Cove with those of 
Büdesheim, yet the evidence goes a long way in this direction, and a 
further close investigation is highly desirable. 
1 In Order to indicate the place more clearly, it may be well to state that Saltern 
Cove consists of a larger hay to the south and a very small one to the north. The 
place where these fossils are found is to the north of the extreme point of the 
headland dividing these two bays. 
2 Mr. Henry Wood ward, who has examined these specimens and compared them 
with those from Büdesheim, concurs in these determinations. 
