ORTHOCEEATID^. 
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specimen measures 1 foot 6i inches in length. This is the one 
described and figured by Dr. S. P. Woodward {loc. cit.). Both were 
“ obtained by Mr. Lockhart, of Shanghai, from some place 200 
miles distant.’’ 
A good deal of uncertainty exists as to the horizon of the beds 
whence these Orthoceratites were procured. Mr. T. W. Kingsmill 
(loc. cit.) in his “ Xotes upon the Geology of China ” (Provinces of 
the Lower Yangtse) gives a list of fossils (Crustacea, Mollusca, 
Corals, &c.), some of which he himself collected and others he pro- 
cured in the “ medicine-shops.” 
The list is as follows : — 
At least one species of Orthoceratite. 
Euomphalus, a species closely allied to, if 
not identical with, E. pentangulatus. 
Some internal casts, probably Cirrus. 
Aviculopecten, probably A. duplicatus. 
Spirifer disjunctus^ and four other species 
of the same genus. 
String ocephalus., three species. 
Ehynchonella, five species. 
Rhynchondla {R. pleurodon ?). 
Terehratula hastata ? 
Athyris ? 
Orthis, two species. 
A Trilobite. 
Cyprididce. 
Cyathopliyllum ? 
Heliolites ? 
Eemains of Encrinites. 
Mr. Kingsmill adds that he had “ no means of comparison with 
actual specimens,” and therefore the fossils named are “ merely put 
forward hypothetically.” They were mostly collected on two 
islands (Tungting Islands) in Lake Taihu (or Taihoo ) in the Pro- 
vince of Kiang-Su, in a limestone, Xo. 4 of Kingsmill’s “ Tungting 
series.” Further on he observes : “ Taking the whole Tungting 
system, there is a striking resemblance between it and the Devonian 
and Subcarboniferous rocks of the south of Ireland — the same suc- 
cession of grits and shales at the bottom, and a similar development 
of limestone above ; while the type of the few fossils found seems 
likewise to approach that of the Lower Carboniferous rocks of Europe.” 
In 1853 ^ Mr. Thomas Davidson examined and described the 
fossil Brachiopods presented to the British Museum by Mr. Hanbury 
1 Quart. Journ. Geol. Soc. vol. ix. 1853, p. 353, pi. xv. 
