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Pityites (Pinites) eirensis sp. nov. 



In his account of petrified material from Franz Josef Land 

 Solms-Laubach 1 describes sections of a Pinus-like leaf from Bell 



FIG. 772. Pityites Solmsi. (British Museum, V. 2169; nat. size.) 



Island (Eira harbour) probably of the same geological age as the 

 plant-beds of Cape Stephen, which is believed to be Upper Jurassic 

 or Lower Cretaceous. Through the kindness of the Director of the 



1 Solms-Laubach (04) p. 12, PL i. fig. 14; PL n. fig. 3. For evidence as to 

 geological age, see Newton and Teall (97), (98); Nathorst (99). 



