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II.—On the Discovery of Trilobites in the Culm-Shales of South-East Devonshire1

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 May 2009

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Although the ‘Culm,’ or Carbonaceous series, of Devonshire, has long been known and studied, it has been a matter of considerable doubt as to the exact horizon in the Carboniferous formation with which it may properly be correlated.

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page 534 note 2 Report on the Geology of cornwall. Devon, and West Somerset, 1839, pp. 110, 145, and fig. 8, pl. iv. See also Trans. Geol. soc. 2nd series, vol. iii. p. 163.

page 534 note 3 Mr. R. Kidston, F.G.S., in reply to my inquiry, gives me the following species as determined by him from the culm Asterocalamites scrobiculatus, Schlot. sp. (=Bornia radiata, Brong.) calamites Roemeri, Göpp. Sphenopteris, sp. nov. Lepidodendrom Rhodeanum (?) Lepidophloios, sp. Halonia (fruiting branch of Lepidophloios) Sigillaria(?) Stigmaria ficoides, Brong. (To thse I may add Dadoxylon, Sternb. (sternbergia), in Mr. Vicary's collection.) All these plants have (says Mr. kidston) a “Calciferous Sandstone” facies and are equivalent to the “Culm” of Germany.

page 535 note 1 See Reid's, Mr. Clement paper, Geol. Mag. 1877, Dec. II. Vol. IV. p. 454455CrossRefGoogle Scholar. (The Goniatites are here spoken of as Clymeniœ.)

page 535 note 2 See Roemer, Prof. Ferd.On the Upper Devonian Goniatite Limestone in Devonshire, ” Geol. Mag. 1880, Dec. II. Vol. VII. p. 145147, Pl. V.CrossRefGoogle Scholar

page 535 note 3 Trans. Geol. Sec. Lond. second series, vol. v. 1840 (read June 14th, 1837).Google Scholar

page 535 note 4 This paragraph gives a very exact description of the lithological characters of the beds at Waddon-Barton by Chudleigu, containing the Culm Trilobites.

page 536 note 1 Trans. Geol. Sec. Lond. 4to. second series, vol. vi. “On the Geology of South-east Devonshire”.Google Scholar

page 536 note 2 Quart. Journ. Geol. Soc. Lond. 1868, xxiv. p. 401Google Scholar

page 536 note 3 Trans. Devonshire Association, 1875

page 537 note 1 “Figures and Descriptions of the Palseozoic Fossils of Cornwall, Devon, and West Somerset,” by Prof. John Phillips, F.R.S., 1841, 8vo

page 537 note 2 O. striolaium, Sandb. The above-mentioned shells, which are all marine, occur in the Calciferous Sandstone around Edinburgh and in Fifeshire (see paper by Etheridge, Mr. R., jun., “On the Invertebrate Fauna of the Lower Carboniferous or Calciferous Sandstone of Edinburgh, ” etc., Quart. Journ. Geol. Soc. 1878, xxxiv. pp. 126 plates i. and ii.CrossRefGoogle Scholar)

page 538 note 1 See Leonhard und Geinitz's “Jahrbuch fiir Mineralogie,” etc., 1879, pp.309–346, pis. 6 and 7.

page 538 note 2 Those marked in Prof. von Koenen's list with a star (*) have also been noticed by Herrn E. Kayser in his paper as occurring in the Culm of Aprath and Herborn.

page 539 note 1 Jahrbuch, der K.Preussischen Geologischen Landesanstalt und Bergakademie zu Berlin für 1881 (Berlin, 1882), pp. 5191.Google Scholar

page 541 note 1 See explanation of Pl. XVI. Geol. Mag., Nov 1884, p.489.

page 542 note 1 Beiträge zur Kenntniss von Obedevon und Culm am Nordrande des rheinischen Schiefergebirges, von Herrn E. Kayser, Arten aus dem Culm von Aprath, pp. 67–91. taf. iii. in Jahrbuch der k. Preussisehen geologischen Landesanstalt und Bergakademie zu Berlin für 1881 (Berlin, published 1882). We hope to give Mr. Kayser's paper a fuller notice later on.—H.W.

page 544 note 1 Incorrectly spelt carringtonensis (see ante p. 486).