342 THE NEED'S CAMP BEDS 



The fossils from these rocks have been described by 

 Mr. Henry Woods and Mr. Lang, 1 who found that they 

 have Upper Cretaceous affinities, but that there was 

 not sufficient evidence to decide whether the beds are of 

 Senonian or Danian age. 



Prof. Schwarz 2 has recently described similar beds 

 from the Albany and Alexandria Divisions under the 

 name of the Alexandria formation, but he also includes 

 in it the marine pebbly limestones which rest uncon- 

 formably upon the Sunday's Eiver beds in the Uitenhage 

 Division and which are probably much later in age than 

 the Upper Cretaceous. Some of the shelly limestone 

 from Need's Camp has a remarkable resemblance to the 

 hard foraminiferal glauconitic limestone found some 

 1,200 feet above sea level near Sand Flats. 



FOSSILS FROM THE NEED'S CAMP SERIES. 3 



Distribution in Foreign Beds. 

 Anthozoa 



Caryophyllia, sp Cretaceous to recent. 



Echinoidea 



Coptosoma capense, Woods . . Genus from Cretaceous 



to recent. 



Cidaris .... . Rhsetic to recent. 



Brachiopoda 



Thecidea (Lacazella) sp. . . . Jurassic to recent. 



1 A. S. A. M., viL, part 1. A more recent discussion of the subject 

 by K. B. Newton will be published in the Trans. Roy. Soc. S. A., vol. i. 



2 T. G. S. S. A., vol. xi. 



3 " Polyzoa and Anthozoa from the Upper Cretaceous Limestones of 

 Need's Camp, Buffalo River," W. D. Lang, A. S. A. M., vii., pt. i., 1908, 

 and " Echinoidea, Brachiopoda, and Lamellibranchia from the " 

 Henry Woods, ibid. 



