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1760
Jofar beneath the broad font, both it are common seen Astylopsis (see my large lot)
A reticularis, Tarsoits del du tejias, Dithi:
Fonotauli, Blottrophyllum and many of the
lown forms. Here dor Skirifn sculptilis, and
the Ophidya, common beneath Calgoretee two feet
The Dictymellas occur in a two feet
bed at any 10-12 foot above the Camascerinn
grre. The single valves are not rare. They are
therefore in the basal Devonian formation.
In none of the previous gres does one
see the typical New Portland fauna; it appears
to me to be all of Regan time ad even
including Oldu Red, and yet then appears
to me Onr To Be Lee mr Silurian Pommo-
for fauna. It is all the oldest Lower Devonian
and up into the Crepmeus, but as a rule no true New
Portland,
Just beneath the broad font occurs onned
Chork and the common forms are Skirifn eg-
Ophiterus; also here but one raref L. shon-
tridale, Eatmia peculiaris (the Wold form),
Skirifn sculptilis and other New Portland
forms, but not A. macropleurus. His li,