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 1898-1002. No. 3n. I SUMMARY nF GEOLOGICAL RESULTS. 13 Great Coccosteomorph. Botltriolepis of. hydrophila Ac. Bothriolepis(?} sp. Large form Holoptifchins cF. tuberculatus NEWR. Glyptolepis cF. pancidens An. Teeth with dendrodont structure, presumably belonging to the preceding Holoptychiidae. Osteolepis sp. Phtonia cF. cylindrica HALL. Badly preserved remains oF plants. Higher in the series: Botltriolepis (?) sp. large Form. Tooth with rhizodont structure. Still higher: Buthriolepis of. hydrophila Ac. Glyptolepis cf. paucidens AG. Reuiains of plants. To judge from the stratigraphical occurrence of these fossils no distinct faunal zones can be distinguished, the lists showing only an impoverish- ment of the fauna upwards. The lower fish-bearing horizon of Series E is, according to KI^R, of older Upper Devonian age, and as it is situated in the middle portion of the Series ,,we must assume that this series with its continental facies commenced in the lowest part of Upper Devonian". The fish fauna of Series E is of a European rather than Ame- rican character, 1 in contrast to the marine faunas in the lower horizons of the Cambro-Devonian Series of Ellesmereland, which show a very close American relation, with, however, the exception of the Middle Devonian faunas which have a more European aspect 2. The fossil plants of Series E have been studied by A. G. NATHORST, and the result published in ,,Die oherdevonische Flora des Ellesmerelandes" (this report no. 1, 1904). The following plants have been identified: Archaeopteris Archetypus SCHMALHAUSEN. Archaeopteris fissilis SCHMALHUSEN. CFr. Sphenopteridium Keilhaui NATHORST. Fragments of stems of uncertain systematic character. These plant remains indicate an Upper Devonian age. 1 Riser: 1. c., p. 54. 2 SCHUCHERT: Notes on Arctic Paleozoic Fossils, Am. Journal of Sience, XXXVIII, 1914, p. 467.
 * Pnaimnosfeus arctic us KI.-KR.
 * Psammosteus complicatus KI.-EU.
 * Holoptychins Sche/i KI.KH.
 * L.njinodendron Sverdrupi NATHORST.