BRACHIOPODA. 
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tributed in North America, and has apparently not yet been recognized in Europe, 
it appears in every South American collection of Devonian fossils that has 
come under my notice. On the Amazonas it is one of the most abundant 
and characteristic shells in both the lower (Maecuru) and upper (Erere) 
divisions. It occurs also in the collections made by Prof. Alex. Agassiz at 
Lake Titicaca, in Bolivia, and by myself at Ponta Grossa, in the Brazilian 
province of Parand, although in both these cases, as in that of Matto Grosso, 
only a mere handful of fossils was obtained.”* A. Ulrich reports that the 
species was also found in Bolivia by Steinmann, near Tarabuco, and by 
Stt'bel in the valley of the Rio Sicasica.f The same author has identified this 
shell in close association with Leptoccdia flabellites, among fossils collected by 
ScHENCK in the Bokkeveld Mountains, in South Africa. 
In North America, Vitulina pustulosa is restricted to the middle Devonian, 
occurring only, so far as known, in the soft shales of the Hamilton group in 
western New York. Even here it is not generally diffused, but its gregarious 
habit is evinced by its abundance in the few localities from which it has 
been reported. 
Genus A N A B A I A, Clarke. 
This name has been introduced in an unpublished account of the “Upper 
Silurian Fauna of the Rio Trombetas, Province of Pard, Brazil,”^ for a Silurian 
Fig. 124. 
Hg. 125. Fig. 126. 
Figa. 124-127. Anabaia Paraia, Clarke. 
Fig. 127. 
Fig. 124. Exterior, showing the brachial valve. 
Fig. 125. Profile of a somewhat compressed specimen. 
Fig. 126. Interior of the brachial valve; showing the cardinal process, crura, dental .sockets and septum. 
Fig. 127. Internal cast of portion of the pedicle-valve; showing the muscular scars. (c.) 
* Nota sobre a Geologia e Paleontologia de Matto Grosso, jip. 76, 77. 1890. 
t Neues Jahrbuch fiir Mineralogie, etc., Beilageband viii, pp. 71-73, pi. iv, tigs. 26-29. 1892. 
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