32 
CONTRIBUTIONS TO DEVONIAN PALEONTOLOGY. [bull. 244. 
portion of the Giles formation of Campbell. The chert bed is nearly 
everywhere hidden by the loose fragments produced by weathering, 
so that its thickness was not ascertained. 
General section 1379, near Hicksville, Va. 
C. Thin-bedded sandstone, l 
B. Shaly sandstone. > Kimberling shale. 
A4. Shaly sandstone. i 
A3. Dark-colored sandy shale, about 75 feet above A2. 
A2. Black shale (Romney shale). 
Al. Sandstone and chert (Giles formation). 
About li miles above Hicksville, in a small ravine on Mr. Horn- 
barker's land, the following fossils were obtained from a few inches 
of sandstone (1379 Al) interbedded with chert. 
Faunule of zone 1 of section 1379 A, near Hicksville, Va. 
[a, abundant; c, common; r, rare.] 
1. Pholidops cf. arenaria (c). 9. 
2. Stropheodonta sp. (r). 10. 
3. Leptaena rhoniboidalis (r). 11. 
4. Chonetes sp. now (r). 12. 
5. Anoplia nucleata (c). 13. 
6. Orthissp. (r). 14. 
7. Amphigenia cf. elongata (r). 
8. Rhynchonella sp. (r). 
A few hundred yards east of 1379 Al, in the bed of Kimberling 
Creek, ScJiizobolus ti'uncatus is common in the Romney or black shale 
(1379 A2). The same species is also found in the black shale in bank 
of creek, one-half mile south of Hicksville, Va. The drab or greenish 
sandy shale which follows the Romney shale appears to be barren of 
fossils at most localities. 
About one-half mile north of Hicksville (1379 A3) a few specimens 
of Palddoneilo brevis and Goniatites sp. were found just east of the ford 1 
and about half way up the face of the cliff. The horizon of this station 
is probably 100 feet above the top of the typical Romney shale. 
On Brushy Mountain, east of Hicksville, no fossils were found above 
station 1379 A3, until within 100 feet of the summit (1379 A4), where 
a rich Chemung fauna was discovered in the Kimberling shale. 
Faunule of zone 4 of section 1379 A, near the summit of Brushy Mountain, Virginia 
[a, abundant; c, common; r, rare.] 
Spirifer cumberlandise (a). 
S. sp. (c). 
Ambocoelia sp. (r). 
Nucleospira sp. ( r ) . 
Anoplotheca (•!'. dichotoma (r). 
Platyostoma ventricosum (r). 
15. Tentaculites elongatus (r). 
1. 
Orbiculoidea sp. (r). 
10. 
L. potens (a). 
2. 
Chonetes scitulns (a). 
11. 
L. potens var. juvene (r). 
3. 
Productella sp. (r). 
12. 
Mytilarca chemnngensis (c). 
4. 
Camarotoechia contracta (a). 
13. 
Nyassa cf. arguta (r). 
5. 
C. sappho (r). 
14. 
Modiomorpha subalata var. cheinung 
ii. 
Spirifer disjunctus (c). 
ensis. 
i . 
Grammysia subarcuata (c). 
15. 
Goniophora chemungensis (r). 
8. 
Sphenotus contractus (r). 
16. 
Euomphahis sp. (r). 
9. 
Leptodesma matheri (r). 
