HJ. MOLLER AND T. G. HALLE, FOSSIL FLORA OF S.E. SCANIA. 3 



The next contribution to the geology of the district was 

 given by Moberg,^ who found in 1882 a rich marine fauna 

 in strata apparently overlaying those containing the plant- 

 remains. The fauna is stated to be rather different from that of 

 the other Rhaetic-Liassic deposits of Sweden. Later on (1885) 

 Moberg made at Kurremölla a fine collection of fossil plants. - 

 In 1882 Moberg also found fossil plants in another locality, 

 viz. at Rödaisberg, N.W. of Tosterup.^ These plants were 

 collected in two different strata, the lower consisting of a 

 white or grey shale, the upper of a rusty brown sandstone. 

 The flora of the higher bed, from which Moberg mentions 

 a species of Nilssonta, is our Flora of Rödaisberg. In 

 his monograph on the Liassic of south-eastern Scania'^ Mo- 

 berg concludes that the fauna of the marine fossiliferous 

 bed at Kurremölla, which he names the »Car^mm-bed», be- 

 longs to the lower part of the Middle Lias. The plant- 

 bearing strata of this locality are stated to underlay this 

 Cardiurn-hed. At Rödaisberg, on the other hand, the rust- 

 coloured sandstone including the plant-remains lies appa- 

 rently above the same Cardium-hed. 



In 1893, Moberg'' gives new and important information 

 on the geology of the coal-bearing series. He states that the 

 plant-bearing beds at Rödaisberg are covered conformably 

 by strata belonging to the Keuper; and from this fact he 

 infers that the whole series of strata, which are in all the 

 sections steeply inclined, must here be inverted and the 

 plant-bearing bed thus older than the Cardium-hed. From a 

 black clay near the base of the coal-bearing series he men- 

 tions two species of fossil plants, determined by Nathorst 

 as Woodivardites microlohiis Schenk and Gutbiera angusii- 

 loha Presl, which both indicate the upper Rhaetic. These 

 plants will be described below under the Munka Tågarp 

 Flora, of which they are the only members determinable 

 with certainty. In the same paper, Moberg also mentions 



^ Moberg, J. Ch., Om de äldsta kritaflagringarna och Rät-Lias i syd- 

 östra Skåne. Reseberättelse. Öfvers. K. Svenska Vet. Aknd. Förhandl. 

 1882.^ X:o 9. P. 33. 



" Cf. Moberg, J. Ch., Om Lias i sydöstra Skåne. K. Svenska Vet. 

 Akad. Handl. Bd 22. N:o 6. 1888. P. 7. 



* Moberg, J. Ch., 1. c. 1882. P. 35. 



"■ Moberg, J. Ch., 1. c. 1888. P. 80. 



" Moberg, J. Ch., Bidrag till kännedomen om Sveriges mesozoiska 

 bildningar. Bih. K. Svenska Vet. Akad. Handl. Bd 19. Afd. 2. N:o2. 1893- 



