242 CORRELATION OF THE KARROO SYSTEM 



(allied to Hoivesia) and Belodon in the Maleri beds 

 (Upper Gondwana). 



The fauna of the Burghersdorp beds l (Upper Beau- 

 fort) has distinctly Triassic representatives in the laby- 

 rinthodont Cyclotosaurus albertyni allied to C. robustus from 

 the Keuper of Wiirtemberg, the phytosaur Erythrosuchus 

 africanus allied to Belodon, and the fishes Cleithrolepis, 

 Dictyopyge, Pholidophorus, Oxygnathus and Hybodus. 



The Hawkesbury series 2 of New South Wales contain 

 labyrinthodonts and fishes closely related to those of 

 the Upper Beaufort, and also Glossopteris and Thinnfeldia. 



The flora of the Molteno beds 3 was shown by Feist- 

 mantel and Seward to be of Bhsetic age, and is similar 

 to that of the Wianamatta beds of New South Wales, 

 the Bhaetic of Tonkin, Cacheuta in Argentina and of 

 Honduras. 



The Stormberg beds above the Molteno group must 

 be of Jurassic age, but fossils are scarce. The crocodile 

 Notochampsa from the Bed beds and Cave sandstone is 

 not closely allied to any European form, but seems to 

 be a degenerate descendant of a Pelagosaurus-like reptile. 

 Pelagosaurus itself comes from the Upper Lias, so Noto- 

 champsa may well be of about the same age. 4 



The following table represents broadly the correlation of 

 the Karroo system with similar formations elsewhere : 



1 Broom, R., Ann. S. A. M., viii., pt. 3, 1909. 



2 Smith- Woodward, A., Mem. Geol. Surv. N.S.W., Paleontology, 

 No. 4, 1890. 



3 Feistmantel, 0., Abh. d. Kgl.bohm. Gesellsch. d. Wiss., vii. Folge, 

 Bd. iii., Piag., 1889 ; Seward, A. C., Ann. S. A. M., iv., pt. i. ; and Q. J. 

 G. S., Ixiv., p. 83. 



4 Broom, R., Papers read at the joint meeting of the B. and S. A, A, 

 A. S. in South Africa, 1905, vol. u., p. 42, 



