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remains and Entomostraca which have been briefly described by 

 Leriche. 



At Kilindi, at the junction of the Lualaba and Lindi rivers, fish 

 remains were found in a soft, whitish argillaceous-calcareous sandstone 

 which lies horizontally - the "middle calcareous shale zone" of Passau. 

 This zone may correspond with bed 8 of Studt's classification. Leriche 

 described the remains as Peltopleurus maeseni. 



From white limestones at Kindu on the Lualaba two forms de- 

 scribed as Pholidophorus corneli and Lepidotus (!) sp. by Leriche were 

 obtained. In the latest paper on the Palaeontology of the Congo (1920) 

 Dr. Leriche describes a large number of fragmentary fish remains 

 under the name of Lepidotus congolensis, a species already described 

 by Hussakof on material from the Congo basin. These remains are 

 from calcareous clay from near the base of the Lualaba Beds in the 

 vicinity of Stanleyville. He also describes a single scale attributed 

 to Colobodus from just north of Ponthierville. Cornet also mentions 

 the discovery of fish debris in bituminous shale in the neighbourhood 

 of Ponthierville. 



Entomostraca are common in some localities, e.g. at points on the 

 railway between Stanleyville and Ponthierville, almost covering the 

 surface of the layers on which they are found. Leriche examined 

 them, and described a Phyllopod Estlieriella lualabensis Leriche, and 

 an ostracod Darwimda globosa var. strict a R. Jones. This latter variety 

 occurs in the Rhaetic of Scotland and Leriche considers the Congo 

 specimens to be indistinguishable from the Scotch form. The same 

 form also occurs at Songa, 43 km. below Ponthierville, in bituminous 

 shales; on the banks of the Oviatoku (a tributary of the Lualaba) 

 in beds full of the ostracod Metacypris passant Leriche; at Bamanga, 

 14 km. below Ponthierville; and at Kindu in clear limestones. From 

 a study of these forms Leriche concluded that the Lualaba Beds were 

 of Upper Triassic age. Cornet, on non-palaeontological grounds, 

 correlated them with the Beaufort Beds of the Karroo System, con- 

 sidering, however, that the Lualaba Beds were a complex whole, in 

 which one should be able to distinguish several zones. 



Messrs. Ball and Shaler obtained fossils from several localities in 

 the series (which they described under the name of the "Lubilache") 

 viz., indeterminable plants from shale at Niangwe, 200 ft. above the 

 base of the series ; ostracods of the genera Cypris, Candona and pos- 

 sible other Cypridae, a valve of Estheria, and fragmentary fish-remains 

 from limey shales 10 miles below Stanleyville and 150 (/) ft. above 

 the base of the series; and a possible Estheria valve from soft sand- 

 stones at Sangula at the confluence of the Buschinmai and Sankuru 



