Stic eee din-- the Mioene, '^'hieh. in all pro'cabilit^- incliides more 

 than one horizon, '- ^he Pliocene Oaloosahatchie , -'-• -^- - -■■ 



'a sxilDtropical n of surpassing ricl'mess, in fact, 



it is -^he 1^ rp-est and most di-^ersified famaa encounterel in 

 the entire Zertisry eerie g. 



Ftirther north in Virginia ai^d the 3:-ro: ". ' o- 



cene ia well-reprecented h 57 the Oalver^, St. I^ar^/'s, ''■^orJrtor/n 

 and -Duplin, out the old.eGt, Oalvert, ia Middle Iliocei-e, beir^fr 

 prohahl^' Tot-tonian. iOhe yorktouTi and Duplin, rrhich were dep- 

 o.'jited in separate ■baDina, are virt-all;': synGhroncarj , although 

 the fauiias are decidc-dl;, differei-t, due to differences in 

 temperature and bottom conditions (1) , the Duplin being wanr.- 

 temperate. ' The Pliocene V/accamaw ic likewise '.v arm- temperate 



(1). -ardjier, ,7. A., Ava. Jour. 3ci., 4th r:er. , vol. r^O, 

 pp. 305-310, 1915. 



and i:: considered lov/ermost Pliocene, 



the 3&loo:jahatchie fi-.una beinn- aroreciabl^" homager, xlll of 



these nore northern faunas have been extensively studierl by 



Kiss '■^ardjier, and the results, v.-hich are Uxiuublished, have been 



TDlaced at the writer's disposal. 



It is thus apparent that^ the only ooct-Apalachicola 



subtropical or warm-temoerct e fa-iuas with which the Boivden 



fauna can cs" b^ compared, are the dipper ITiocene Duplin and the 



Pliocene V/aocamavv and Oaloosahatchie. Anhou^.-h, as was to be 



