F. R. Cowper Reed — Fossils from Girvan. 291 



organic remains ; but it is remarkable that whereas in other cases 

 radiolaria are commonly recognizable, in these slides no structure was 

 observed that could be definitely referred to this group. 



While the writer feels no hesitation now in regarding the Singapore 

 rocks as an extension of the Pahang Tembeling Sei'ies, he nevertheless 

 thinks a word is necessarj^ regarding the palseontological evidence in 

 order to meet a possible objection. Mr. li. B. Newton, to whom the 

 writer is greatly indebted for assistance in this direction, when 

 describing the fossils found by Mr. Bellamy near Kuala Lipis, in 

 Pahang, as Khsetic, emphasized the fact that Myoplioria is exclusively 

 Triassic.^ The same author, referring to EstherieUa radiata (Salinas), 

 var. multiline ata^' found in Tembeling Series rocks in Perak, and 

 described by Professor Rupert Jones, ^ also remarks that the genus 

 Estlieriella^ "so far as can be ascertained, is only known to have 

 existed in. Triassic times"; while, writing of the Singapore fossils, 

 Mr. Newton says that the beds containing them "may be of Middle 

 Jurassic age, and about the horizon of the Inferior Oolite of England 

 or the so-called Bajocian of Continental geologists."^ The presence of 

 Goniomya and Podozamites leads the author to this conclusion, but he 

 remarks that Gonioimja has also been found in Palaeozoic rocks, 

 although exceedingly rare ; ^ and the range of Podozamites in Europe 

 is described by Nicholson & Lydekker as " from the E-hsetic into the 

 Lower Cretaceous." ^ 



It is far from the writer's purpose to suggest any amendment to 

 these remarks on the fossils he had sent to England. His object is to 

 show that the palseontological evidence does not make it necessary 

 either to separate the Singapore and Pahang beds, or to assume that 

 a series of estuarine deposits of unknown thickness covers at least part 

 of the Ehsetic, the whole of the Lias, and part of the Inferior Oolite. 



Mr. Newton, has suggested that the Singapore rocks may be an 

 extension of the Upper (iondwana of India, and the writer has made 

 a similar suggestion regarding the Tembeling Series. It will be very 

 interesting in this connection to see the result of the examination of 

 the Shan. States Rhsetic fossils collected by Mr. De la Touche. 



II. — Sedgwick Museum Notes : New Fossils prom Gikvan. 



By F. E. Cowper Reed, M.A., F.G.S. 



(PLATE XII.) 



Ischadites Konigi, Murchison. 



IN the list of fossils from the Silurian rocks of the South of Scotland 

 in the collections of the Geological Survey" the two species of 

 Ischadites^ I. antiquus, Salter, and /. Konigi, Murchison, are entered 



1 " Marine Triassic Laniellibraiichs from the Malay Peninsula " : Proc. Malac. 

 Soc, vol. iv, part 3, October, 1900, p. 130. 

 - Geol. Mag., 1905, p. 49. 

 3 Ibid., pp. 50-52. 

 * Ibid., 1906, p. 488. 

 5 Ibid., pp. 487-8. 



« "A Manual of Paltcontology, " vol. ii (1889), p. 1526. 

 " Mem. Geol. Surv., Silurian Rocks of Britain, vol. i, Scotland, 1899, p. 668. 



