1 i OLAF HOLTEDAHL [SEC. ARCT. EXP. FRAM 



rnforlimately Sam was not able to study tin' beds next younger 

 than hi- Series K. 50 we do not know what is lying between these high 

 Devonian beds and the Upper C a r h o n i f e r o u s limestones studied 

 ,-it Store Bjornrkiip (Bear Ope). Prohahly the lower ( \;\\ honiferous here, 

 MS in other districts of the Arctic Archipelago, is developed as a continental 

 deposition of plant-hearing sandstones and shale- 



The hulk of the carboniferous fossils collected hy S<;im were found 

 at Store Bjornekap, a locality about "/") km. north of the inner end of 

 Gaasefjord. The rock at Bjornekap is. according to Sam. in the lower 

 part on unfossiliferous, brownish grey, hard limestone, higher up a white 

 limestone, rich in chert, and in this upper hori/.on the fossils were 

 found. 



Carboniferous limestone was also found far to the north in Axel 

 1 1,-il.rix'- Land, in Svarte Vaeg (Black Wall), but from this locality only 

 a few fossils, embedded in dark gray, not cherty limestone were brought. 



The carboniferous fossils were, after the return of the expedition sent 

 to Prof. TSCHEKNY.SCHEW, who did not, however, live to see the result of 

 his studies on the fossils printed. In fact the work, in which he was 

 assisted by P. STI:I' \.\ow. who had taken the study of the corals and 

 bryo/i.a. was not quite finished at the death of TSCHKHNYSCHKW about 

 New Year 1!MI. The closing chapter of the manuscript was still un- 

 written. Besides Dr. STEPANOW also Dr. P. v. WITTENBURG of Petrograd, 

 has done a very considerable and important work in looking through 

 T-< in RNTSCHEw's manuscript and preparing it for publication. This paper 

 by TscHKiiNYscHicw and STEPANOW ] ,,0bercarbonlaiina von Konig Oscars 

 mid Ileibergs Land", printed 191b', is no. 34 of this report. 



A list of the fossils described in this paper follows below. When 

 marked with a B the species was found at Bjornekap: when marked with 

 S. V. it was found at Svarte V;i-g. 



**Srlifiin lulicrnsa TSCIIKRX., B. 

 /ji /ill ri'ii /N Bp.j I'.. 

 Clisiophyllum i?i sp., B. 

 I. Hhiis! ration hnri'itlix Sn < M \n , |{. 



iiliiiiiHiiris SMII. \ar. rinnnsti s/>i<rxi<j. <iiiN. I'.; S. \'. 

 all', urn/n I.I.NSI. . 1', 



e&egantissinta I!KM\\ , H. 



l-'<-Hrsti'llit ri'lli'l'IS Kl-i HKH. I'.. 

 / ' ,11'^li'lln HHi/Hstn I'l-illlli. B. 



/'cjr.s/c//' nrii'ii/nlis Kn:ii\\., B. 

 / rni'*li-ll,i iilrln'jn M'( ; ( iy, I ;. 



/'r//c.s/r//l l-ariritsil M'Cn^. H. 



'I'ln- !n\.il\r- \viTi- -linlii'il lv I'r. LlCHAREW. 



