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I.—Notice of the Occurrence of Upper Devonian Goniatite Limestone in Devonshire1

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 May 2009

Ferdinand Roemer
Ferdinand Roemer
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For. M. Geol. Soc. Lond., of the University of Breslau.
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On a visit to Devonshire, in August, 1879, I was conducted, by my friend, Mr. John Edward Lee, F.G.S., of Torquay, to a recently discovered locality at Lower Dunscombe, near Chudleigh, in which large Goniatites occur in considerable numbers in a bed of red limestone. On the slope of a chain of hills, not far from one of the farm-houses belonging to Lord Clifford, there is a ruined quarry, in which a vertical face of limestone is exposed.

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Geological Magazine , Volume 7 , Issue 4 , April 1880 , pp. 145 - 147
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1880

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page 145 note 2 The brothers Sandberger have figured this species beautifully from perfect examples found at Oberscheld, and have fully described it under the name of G. Sagittarius. Beyrich only knew incomplete specimens, but the characteristic form of the lobes and the general form of the shell were already correctly given by him, and therefore his name has the priority.

page 146 note 1 In reference to Mr. Lee's specimen of dermal fish-plate, from the Upper Devonian of Lower Dunscombe, Mr. W. Davies, F.G.S., of the British Museum, observes, “There can be no doubt in pronouncing this fossil (Pl. V. Fig. 3) to be a median dorsal plate of Coccosteus, agreeing very well in general form with that plate in C. decipiens, Ag. (Table 8, Agassiz, ‘Fishes of the Old Red Sandstone’), though probably nearer to C. oblongus; but from the imperfect state of its preservation it would be unwise to attempt its specific determination.”

page 146 note 2 In the black limestone, with G. intumescens, at Bicken, near Herborn, fish-remains have been found, which probably belong to Coccosteus. The limestone at Lower Dunscombe is probably equivalent to this.

page 146 note 3 See “Notice of the Discovery of Upper Devonian Fossils in the Shales of Torbay,” by Lee, J. E.Geol. Mag. 1877, Vol. IV. p. 100, Plate V.CrossRefGoogle Scholar I have also visited this locality under the guidance of Mr. Lee, and can testify to the complete relationship of the small fossil fauna of the red slaty clays existing close to the sea-shore with those of Büdesheim. [No one, we are sure, would be more annoyed than Dr. Roemer at the slightest inaccuracy respecting the discoverer of any bed; and he will, we are sure, forgive us for stating that Dr. Harvey B. Holl, in his paper on Devonshire, etc. (Quarterly Journ. Geol. Soc. 1868, vol. xxiv. p. 413Google Scholar), actually gives a section of this very bed (without correlating it), which he calls the “Cephalopod bed”; but he places it unfortunately at Waddon Barton, where several geologists have searched for it in vain. Mr. Lee, we believe, in his notice at Sheffield (the published report of his paper was only in abstract), referred to Dr. Holl's section, and thought that Dr. Holl, had by some mischance confounded two localities within a mile of each other. As a fossil-bearing locality, Lower Dunscombe was hitherto comparatively unknown; although Mr. H. B. Woodward, in his recently published Geology of England and Wales, mentions the discovery of Goniatites intumescens.—Edit.]

page 147 note 1 Pt. cornubicus.