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Carboniferous. .... It is the conclusion of the author that the Red Beds of this 

 region are the near-shore representatives of the Albany and the decision as to their 

 age will rest upon that of the latter.' 



The above paper in part appears to support the earher conclusions 

 of Professor W. F. Cummins who had "found the fact well estab- 

 lished that the Wichita and the Albany divisions were the same 

 in time of deposition."^ This opinion was positively and clearly 

 stated in 1908 by Professor Cummins in his paper on "The Localities 

 and Horizons of Permian Vertebrate Fossils in Texas" where he wrote 

 as follows: 



These beds in the southern part of this field were called the Albany beds and 

 were assigned to the Coal Measures. Subsequent study, however, disclosed the 

 fact that the beds were stratigraphically continuous with the Wichita, being simply 

 deposits in deeper waters, and in all subsequent publications they have been 

 included in the Wichita, referred to the Permian, and the name Albany dropped. ^ 



Dr. Percy E. Raymond has discovered reptilian and amphibian 

 fossils near Pitcairn, fifteen miles east of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, 

 in the upper part of the Pittsburgh red shale which occurs near the 

 middle of the Conemaugh formation of the Pennsylvanian series. ^ 

 These fossils have been described by Professor Case who states that 

 "in general the collection resembles rather those from Texas than 

 those from Illinois, but the specimens are far too few to base any 

 generalizations as to distribution upon them."^ His conclusion 

 is that — 



it certainly places the advent of a distinctly terrestrial reptilian fauna earlier 

 than has hitherto been supposed. The suggestion may not be impossible that 

 conditions for terrestrial life of a high order were reached earlier in the east than 

 in the west, and that the Carboniferous swamps of Pennsylvanian time, giving 

 place to upland surfaces before the advance of the Appalachian uplift, made 

 possible a type of life that was homotaxially equivalent to a similar type, which 

 developed at a later time in the west.*^ 



Dr. I. C. White regards this discovery by Dr. Raymond as strongly 

 confirmatory of the Permo-Carboniferous age of the main portion of 



1 Science, N. S., Vol. XXIX, May 7, 1909, p. 752. 



2 Trans. Texas Acad. Sci., Vol. II, 1897, p. 97. 



3 Jour. Geol., Vol. XVI, pp. 738, 739. 



4 Science, N. S., Vol. XXVI, Dec. 13, 1907, p. 835. 



s Annals Carnegie Mus., Vol. IV, 1908, p. 235. ^ Ibid., p. 240. 



