3842 G. CO. Crick—Cretaceous Rocks of Natal and Zululand. 
‘“‘ At intervals,” Mr. Anderson continues, ‘‘ Cretaceous beds crop 
out in the bed of the northern tributary of the Manuan Creek as far 
west as the point where the Mkuzi! River track crosses the creek, at 
the foot of the hill to the east of Crossly’s store . . . . The fossils 
from this deposit have not yet been described.” 
‘‘ The other fossiliferous Cretaceous deposits,’ writes Mr. Anderson, 
‘“which I have been able to visit and make collections from are 
situated near the junction of the Manuan and the Umsinene Rivers. 
The exposure shows a thicker series of beds than in any other locality 
from which I have collected. There are from 70 to 100 feet of strata 
exposed, chiefly calcareous sandy shales and sandstones, the whole 
being capped by a very hard calcareous sandstone full of broken 
shells. ‘The beds are exposed almost continuously where the bank 
is precipitous. They are exceedingly prolific in fossils, chiefly 
Mollusca, Cephalopoda, and Gasteropoda. The Cephalopoda are 
extremely abundant, and range in size from forms of half an inch 
to over a yard in diameter. The fossils weather from the shales in 
a perfect condition, but from long exposure on the surface to the 
atmosphere, rains, and bush fires, they are largely composed of casts. 
Some good specimens, however, were obtained. These are described 
by Mr. G. C. Crick, of the British Museum, in this Report, under 
the title of the ‘North End of False Bay Deposit.’ ” 
According to Mr. Anderson there are many other localities in the 
neighbourhood of False Bay where the Cretaceous rocks are exposed, 
but he had not been able to make collections from them. The most 
northerly point from which he had obtained fossils was to the east 
of Crossly’s store, near the southern end of the Lebombo Range, but 
he knows of other outcrops of fossiliferous rocks still further north. 
Having given this brief sketch of the distribution of the Cretaceous 
rocks of Natal and Zululand, attention may now be directed to the 
Cephalopod fauna of these deposits. 
It may first be mentioned that the fauna of the Cretaceous rocks of 
Pondoland (known also as the Umtamfuna or Umzamba Beds), that 
was first described by Baily in 1855, has quite recently been the 
subject of a memoir, in the Annals of the South African Museum 
(vol. iv, pt. 7, 1906), by Mr. H. Woods, who concludes that the whole of 
these beds are of Campanian (Upper Senonian) age. 
Of the two localities in Natal proper at which Cretaceous deposits 
are known to be present, the beds at the one which occurs on the 
coast between high and low water marks, between the mouth of the 
Umpenyati River and the mouth of the Umhlengeni River, agree, 
according to Mr. Anderson, both petrologically and paleeontologically 
with the beds on the coast of Pondoland to the south. As 
Mr. Anderson points out, the lower portion of the series is much more 
fossiliferous than the upper portion, though it is not possible to divide 
the series into recognisable subdivisions. From the list of the Cephalo- 
poda given by Mr. Anderson (Third Report, pp. 50-51), there can be 
no doubt about the identification of these strata with the Umtamyuna 
1 Spelt ‘ Umkusi’ on the map. 
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