THE 



GEOLOGICAL MAGAZINE. 



NEW SERIES. DECADE IV. VOL. V. 



No. VI.— JUNE, 1898. 



os-iG-iisr^^Xi JLiaTicniES. 



I. — A Collection of Egyptian Fossil Mabkeporakia. 



By J. W. Gregory, D.Sc, F.G.S. 



(PLATES VIII AND IX.} 



THE collection of fossils belonging to the Geological Survey of 

 Egypt which has been sent to England for description by 

 Capt. H. G. Lyons, R.E., contains a series of forty specimens of 

 corals, including representatives of nine genera and eleven species. 

 Of the latter two are new. 



The horizons represented are as follows : — 



Pleistocene : Eaised coral reefs at Jebel Zait. 

 Middle Miocene — Helvetian : Camps 8 and 20 between Cairo 

 and Suez ; near Jebel Attalca, Jebel Owebid, etc. 

 Upper Eocene : Fayum, in Lake Birket-el-Qurun. 

 Lower Eocene — Libyan : Dungul Wells and near Silsila, 



Upper Egypt. 

 Turonian : Abu Roasch, west of Gizeh. 

 A record of a species of Fungia from the Pleistocene deposits, 

 based on some specimens in the British Museum collection, is 

 included in the present papei". 



The principal works on the Egyptian coral-faunas are the 

 following : — 



C. G. Ehrenberg. " Beitrage zur physiologischen Kenntniss der 

 Corallenthiere im Allgemeinen, und besonders des rothen 

 ]\Ieeres, nebst einem Versuche zur physiologischen Systematik 

 derselben": Abh. k. Akad. Wiss. Berlin f. 1832 (1834), 

 pp. 225-380. 

 C. B. Klunzinger. " Die Korallthiere des rothen Meeres," pts. ii 



and iii. Berlin, 1879. 

 Joh. Felix. "Korallen aus iigyptischen Tertiarbildungen " : Zeit. 



deut. geol. Ges., vol. xxxvi (1884), pp. 415-453, pis. iii-v. 

 E. Pratz. "Eocane Korallen aus der lybischen Wiiste und 

 Aegypten": Beitr. Geol. Pal. libysch. Wiiste, pt. ii (1883), 

 pp. 219-238, pi. XXXV. 



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