106 D. M. S. WaUon—The Trias of Mora!/. 



Africa, and later in the Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society 

 (22) ; this foot seems quite competent to produce the prints in question, 

 and the characters of the humerus of Gordojiia seem to indicate great 

 hreadth of track, one of the most characteristic features of the prints 

 under consideration. The known Bicynodon foot is pentadactyl, so 

 that no ohjection can arise on that score. It seems, therefore, that the 

 Cummingstone rocks are to be associated with the Cutties Hillock 

 group rather than with the Lossiemouth Trias, and that both are really 

 Permian. 



In the field one gains the impression that the jSTew Red Sandstone 

 rocks of Moray are not of great thickness, but on account of their 

 constant false-bedding and isolated exposure (except in the case of 

 the Cummingstone group) it is impossible to give actual measurements. 

 I believe that 200 feet will cover the thickness of the Lossiemouth 

 group, 120 feet more the Cutties Hillock rocks, and probably 400 or 

 500 feet the Cummingstone Beds. 



The present relationships of the beds are easiest accounted for by 

 faults, and Judd has already pointed out that evidence of faulting 

 exists in the neighbourhood. One fault of considerable throw must 

 run easterly and westerly through the village of Quarry wood to throw 

 the Permian Cutties Hillock Beds up to a height of some 200 feet 

 above the Triassic Lossiemouth Beds of Pindrassie Wood Quarry, and 

 another with general north and south direction of similar throw 

 must be invoked to separate the Permian Cummingstone Beds at 

 Coversea from the Lossiemouth Beds at Stotfield. 



It appears to me that the footprint-bearing beds of Annandale must 

 also be regarded as Permian, as the tracks from that locality described 

 by Sir W. Jardine are of the well-defined type which occurs at 

 Mansfield; some of the tracks, in fact, seem to be identical. 



Summary. — It is pointed out that there are tliree types of 

 Eeptiliferous Sandstone in the neighbourhood of Elgin — the Lossie- 

 mouth Beds, the Cutties Hillock Beds, and the Cummingstone Beds, 

 and that there is no stratigraphical evidence of their mutual relations. 

 It is pointed out that whilst the Lossiemouth Beds contain an 

 undeniably Triassic fauna, the Cutties Hillock Beds contain a 

 completely difterent assemblage of reptiles, much akin to the Permian 

 fauna of Texas and llussia. The Cummingstone Beds have yielded 

 only footprints, but these are of the well-defined type occurring in the 

 Permian of Mansfield and Thuringia. It is shown that these tracks 

 could not have been made by StagonoUpis or ITyperodapedon, the two 

 possible reptiles of the Lossiemouth Beds, but that they agree well 

 enough with the foot of Dicynodon^ an ally of Gordonia, one of the 

 Cutties Hillock reptiles, whose foot, judging from the fragmentary 

 remains alone known, must liave greatly resembled it. 



It is suggested that the Cutties Hillock Beds and the Cummingstone 

 Beds are of the same age, and that they are really Permian and not 

 Trias, as has formerly been supposed. 



I wish to express my indebtedness to William Taylor, Esq., J. P., of 

 Lhanbrj'de, on whose list of the localities of Lossiemouth Bed fossils 

 (5) my own is largely founded, and to Dr. W. Mackie, of Elgin, the first 

 to call attention to the desert evidences in the Cutties Hillock Beds. 



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