from New Zealand. 339 



correlate it with the Wangaloa Bed. The other fossils in it seem 

 to be very poorly preserved. Professor Marshall sent some specimens 

 of these Belemnites to Wilckens, who submitted them to other 

 specialists. Their opinion was that they were too much rolled for 

 accurate identification, but were certainly true Belemnites. 



The present fragment, though clearly a true Belemnite, is too 

 poorly preserved for further determination, but its occurrence among 

 the fauna of Selwyn Rapids is significant. For comparison I illustrate 

 two specimens of the Brighton Belemnite (PI. XXI, Figs. 7, 8) which 

 were kindly given to me by Professor Marshall. 



Correlation. 



The limited number of fourteen fossils under examination in the 

 present paper indicates the absolute agreement of the Cretaceous of 

 New Zealand with that of the rest of the Indo-Pacific region. 



The Conchothyra parasitica beds at Selwyn Bapids and the 

 Waimakariri Gorge are clearly of the same age and correspond very 

 closely with the Pugnellus and Trigonia Hanetiana beds of Quinquina 

 in Chili and the Pugnellus and Aporrhais gregaria beds of South 

 Patagonia. There can be no doubt that the Pugnellus bed in the 

 Waipara Gorge is also of approximately, if not of exactly similar, age. 



Steinmann 1 says, "The Quinquina Beds of South Chili are of the 

 same age as the upper division of the European Senonian, and definite 

 faunal relations exist between them." Wilckens 2 regards the South 

 Patagonian higher Cretaceous beds as the equivalent or at least the 

 analogue of the Quiriquina of Chili. 



It is thus a matter of interest to find in the same bed at Selwyn 

 Bapids in New Zealand species such as Aporrhais gregaria, which 

 occur in South Patagonia but not at Quiriquina, and Holcodiscus 

 (Kossmaticeras) gemmatus, which is found at Quiriquina but not in 

 South Patagonia, but which recurs at Seymour Island off the coast 

 of Graham Land in Antarctica. 



The reported identification by Mr. Woods of a Gault fauna in 

 New Zealand has already been mentioned. It may turn out that 

 beds closely resembling those with Inoceramus Steinmanni in South 

 Patagonia will also be found. It remains to be seen when Professor 

 Marshall's work on the Wangaloa fossils is published whether this 

 fauna, which should apparently be of Maestrichtian age, finds any 

 close parallel in South America or elsewhere. 



I found no Tertiary species among the Upper Senonian fossils of 

 New Zealand which I examined. Some Tertiary forms might be 

 expected to occur in the Wangaloa Beds, but for details of these 

 I await Professor Marshall's report. 



The number of Upper Senonian forms common to New Zealand, 

 South America, and Graham Land points to a much closer connexion 

 between these regions than obtains at the present day, and indicates 

 a land mass or a group of islands in the South Pacific joining New 

 Zealand to South America previous to the Tertiary uplift of New 



1 N.J. Mr Min., Beil. Bd. x, p. 27, 1895. 



2 Bericht der Naturgesell. Freiburg, 1907, Bd. xv, p. 63. 



