Additions to the fauna of the Lower Carboniferous limestones of Leslie and St. Monans, Fife

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The fossils enumerated in the following lists were collected at two localities, namely, at Leslie in the central part of Fife, and on the shore at St Monans in the east of the county. In giving these lists, I do so not only for the sake of adding to the lists already published, but also to draw attention to the occurrence in Fife of rare species, some of which do not seem to have been recorded from rocks of Lower Carboniferous age in Scotland. Since the publication of Dr. Hind's monograph on the lamellibranch and gasteropod fauna, discovered by Mr Tait, in the Millstone Grit of Scotland,1 considerable interest has been attached to the occurrence of similar species of shells lower in the Carboniferous sequence. Mr John Smith of Dalry, in his paper on the Lower Carboniferous rocks of the Solway,2 gives a list of the fossils found at Arbigland, and among the lamellibranchs he records the interesting form Prothyris elegans , Meek, which up to that time (1910) had in Scotland only been found in the Millstone Grit. So far as I can discover, this is the only record of this shell occurring in Scottish Lower Carboniferous rocks. It is a curious fact, therefore, that at the Fife localities herein noted, we not only find Prothyris elegans , but also other two lamellibranchs of the American type which occur in the Millstone Grit, as well as other rare Lower Limestone species. The two localities mentioned in this paper are separated by

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