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the levigated palla would be Tortonian, as would appear also from 

 the evidence given above ; and, what is still more interesting, the salt 

 fades of the Oltenian Tertiary extends upward to the lower Sarmatian. 

 Sarmatian layers with salt facies were mentioned also by Mrazec 

 and Teisseyre in Distr. Prahova, Ramnicul sarat, Bacau, etc. 



b) Besides the above localities, the lower Sarmatian was identified 

 in the sandstone facies at Buda, Inotesti, Pausesti de Olanesti, 1 

 Negoesti-Petrari, Viezure, Tomsani, Govora, Sacel, etc.; it is a 

 horizon (Volhynian according to Simionescu) well characterized in 

 Volhynia, Moldavia, and Bessarabia, etc., by Ervilia podolica Eichw. 

 At various localities in this horizon I collected the following fossils : 



Mactra fragilis Lask. Spirorbis sp. 



Modiola marginata Eichw. Ervilia podolica Eichw. 



Modiola volhynica Eichw. Buccinum duplicatum Sow. 



Cardium protractum Eichw. Trochus sp. 



Cardium obsoletum Eichw. Melanopsis impresa Kraus. 



Cardium plicatum Eichw. Serpula spiralis Eichw. 



Cardium lithopodolicum Dub. Hydrobia sp. 



Cerithium disjunctum Sow. Dentolina 



Cerithium rubiginossum Eichw. Modiolae (Small) 



Cerithium mitrale Eichw. Gastropods (Small) 



Corbula sp. etc. 



The ' stratum which contains these fossils is always higher than 

 that described under a). 



2. The middle Sarmatian (Bessarabian Sim.) is represented by 

 beds of sandstone, sand, and conglomerates with shales, at Stoenesti, 

 Buleta, Dianul (S. de Slatioara), at Marita determined by Redlich, 

 Racovita, Polovraci, Ursani, Baia de fer, Novaci, Sacel, Surpati, and 

 at Ciuperceni (in Oltetu valley), determined by Fontannes, 2 and is 

 characterized by Mactra Fabreana d'Orb., Tapes gregaria Partsch, 

 etc. I may here mention the conglomerates from Crasna, Suseni, 

 Dobrita, at the skirt of the mountains which contain : 



Cardium protractum Eichw. Modiola m>arginata Eichw. 



Cardium lilhopodolicum Eichw. Syndosmya reflexa Eichw. 



1 Fontannes mentions some Sarmatian fossils from Ramnicul Valcei, Episcopia ; 

 Cetatuia, Glimboaca, etc.: "Faune malacologique tertiaire de Roumanie," Archives 

 du Museum d'Histoire naturelle, Lyon, 1886. From Episcopia (Roumicu Valcei) he 

 described Tapes gregaria var. Ramnicensis. 



2 From here comes Mactra Stefanescui. 



