. Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History). . SARTHE Le Mans Fig. 1 Locality map showing the relative present-day positions of Budleigh Salterton, Devon, Gorran Haven, Cornwall and the Armorican Peninsula, France. possesses the largest, and indubitably the most important, collection of brachiopods from that area, which has not been critically reassessed for a century. The present paper deals only with the Ordovician part of the fauna; the Devonian brachiopods will form the topic of a subsequent publication. Davidson, in a later review (1880 : 339), also realized that there were two sep
. Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History). . SARTHE Le Mans Fig. 1 Locality map showing the relative present-day positions of Budleigh Salterton, Devon, Gorran Haven, Cornwall and the Armorican Peninsula, France. possesses the largest, and indubitably the most important, collection of brachiopods from that area, which has not been critically reassessed for a century. The present paper deals only with the Ordovician part of the fauna; the Devonian brachiopods will form the topic of a subsequent publication. Davidson, in a later review (1880 : 339), also realized that there were two separate Ordovician ages represented by the Budleigh Salterton brachiopods. The older of these he identified as 'Ores Armoricain - Lowest portion of Llandeilo', and the younger as 'Gres de May - Caradoc' (Davidson's stratigraphical terminology compared with modem usage can be found in Cocks 1978 : fig. 1). This important conclusion appears, however, to have been overlooked by all subsequent workers. The older horizon is repre- sented only by the large inarticulate brachiopods and the younger by the more common pebbles dominated by 'Orthis budleighensis'. The Ordovician brachiopods found in the Budleigh Salterton pebbles are very similar to those found //; situ in the Armorican Peninsula of Brittany and Normandy, France, and also to some extent in the Gorran Haven area of Cornwall (Fig. 1). Sadler (1974) has reviewed the Gorran Quartzites and their trilobite fauna, assigned to them a Llandeilo, possibly a late Llandeilo, age and (1974:74) recorded comparable trilobites from Budleigh Salterton pebbles. During the last 20 years much has been published on the Ordovician of the Armorican massif, the stratigraphy of which is now well known (see summaries by Babin et. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Br
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