Tlic Crckiccous Fauna of Poidnland . 347 



of which occurs below the Yaludayur Beds wliich aie admitted 

 to be of Campanian age. Further, the al)seiice of any horizon in 

 Pondoland earher than the Campanian is shown by the fact that 

 specimens of Pscudophyllites Indra were found by the Survey in 

 the basement bed of the deposit. The probability that one zone 

 only is represented is supported by the ol)servations made by the 

 Survej^that most of the species range throughout the deposit, as well 

 as by the small thickness of that deposit. 



Schlc?)ibac}iia Umhvlaxi was regarded l)y Kossmat as probably 

 a Lower .Senonian form, but its horizon is similarly tixed by its 

 association with characteristic Campanian species. 



Kocks of the same age as those of Pondoland are found along the 

 coast of Zululand from Port Durnford to beyond St. Lucia Bay, and 

 are probably continued as far north as Delagoa Bay. An account 

 of the fossils from one part of this region, Umkwelane Hill north 

 of St. Lucia Bay, has been given by Mr. E. Etheridge.^'- 



Still further north, on the coast at Sofala, in hit. 20" S., the 

 presence of beds of the same age is indicated by the occurrence 

 of Alectryonia wujulata (Schlotheim).! 



Deposits representing the Ariyalur Beds have been proved to 

 occur near the coast on the nortli, east, and south-west of 

 Madagascar. Thus from Diego Suarez M. de Grossouvre \ has 

 recorded Nautilus Bouchardi, Scaphitcs sp., Hauericeras sp. cf. 

 Bemhda, Bralimdites Brahma, Piizosia sp., and Fhylloceras sp., 

 and he concludes that the fauna is closely related to that of the 

 Ariyalur deposits of Southern India. On the east coast of Mada- 

 gascar Cretaceous fossils have been found at Fanivelona and 

 Marohita, and have been described by Prof. Boule and MM. 

 Thevenin and Lambert, j Nearly all of the Mollusca are found in 

 the Cretaceous rocks of Southern India. The following species are 

 . recorded : — 



Lytoceras India (Foib.). Tnrritelht cf. dijiciliii, d'Orb. 



Volutilitlies faiiii-eluni'ii>:i.->, Boule and ,, cf. mxioxn, Horn. 



Thev. ,. Brcantiana, d'Orb. 



Fusus excavatwi, Blanf. Oxtrea (Alectryonia) ungulata, Schloth. 



Pugnellug crassicostatiis, Notl. ,, (Gryphea) ve.'~.iculuri$, Lam. 



* Second Ileport Geol. Survey Natal and Zululund (1904), p. 71. 



t R. B. Newton, Jouin. Conch., viii. (1806), p. 13(3. 



I Bull. Soc. geol. de France, ser. 3, vol. xxvii. (1899), p. 378. 



§ Annal. de Paleont., vol. i. (1906), p. 43. Lambert, Bull. Soc. geol. de France, 

 ser. 3, vol. xxiv. (1896), p. 313, and ibid. ser. 4, vol. iii. (1903), p. 75. Alectryonia 

 ungulata and other species are recorded from Madagascar by R. B. Newton, Q.J.G.S., 

 xlv. (1889), p. 333. 



27 



