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cordant order of successive faunae can be proved to exist.. " It is 

 now shown that this phenomenon also extends to the Pacific region, 

 and that it therefore comprises the whole vast region of the pelagic 

 Triassic deposits known to us." 



Research in the vast regions of the earth not yet opened out will 

 probably settle the doubts as to the habitats of the original types of 

 now scattered faunae. " At the time of the Upper Trias remarkable 

 changes in the distribution of continents and in the extent of the 

 seas, especially in the region of the Pacific Ocean, must have taken 

 place." It follows " that changes in the physical characters of the 

 surface of the earth must have most materially influenced the 

 distribution of the organic beings thereon." 



Paloeontolojta Indica. Series XVI. Baluchistan. Vol. I. The 

 Jurassic Fauna. Part 1. The Fauna of the Kellaways of Mazdr 

 Brilc. By Fritz Noktling, Ph.D., F.G.S., &e. Folio. 22 pages, 

 13 plates. Calcutta : Geol. Survey Office. London : Kegan Paul 

 & Co. 1896. 



The lowest formation in the Mari Hills of Baluchistan is a massive 

 limestone, for the most part yielding only some Terehratulce and 

 llhi/nchonelke, not well preserved ; but a good fossil fauna was found 

 in this rock near Maztir Drik, namely : — Brachioiwda, 2 species ; 

 Pelecypoda, 3 spp. ; Gasteropoda, 1 sp. ; Cephalopoda, 15 spp. Of 

 the last there are three species of jS'autiloidea and twelve of Ammo- 

 mera. The genus Macrocephalites predominates ; and M. poJ>/phemus 

 is the most frequent species. Hence this massive limestone of 

 Baluchistan is called the poh/phemus-Wmestone by the Author, and 

 appears to be equivalent to the Charee group of Kutch, and to be 

 homotaxial with the Lower Kellaways Series of Europe, 



Of the thirteen plates, pi. i, illustrates Terehratula ventricosa, 

 Zieten, Rhynchonella plicatella, Sow. ; also a Lirtia and a Pholadomya. 

 Remains of a Gervillea and of a Pleurotomaria are also described 

 (page 6). 



Plates ii. to xiii. illustrate the following : — 



Nautilus wandaeiisis * , Waagen. j Macrocephalites subcompressus * , 

 giganteus * , d'Orhigny. \ Waagen 



intumeseens * , Waagen. 



Harpoceras, sp. 

 Sphferoceras bullatum, d'Orb. 

 Macrocephalites macrocephalus * 

 Schlotheim, sp. 



transiena * , Waagen. 



polyphenius * , Waagen. 



grantaniim * , Waagen. 



opis * , Waagen. 



Perisphinctes balinensis * , Waagen 

 (non Ncumeyr). 



baluchistensis, sp. nov. 



recuperoi * , Gemmellaro. 



aberrans * , Waagen. 



The specie.s marked with an asterisk "have been identified with specii 

 described from Kutch." 



