THE 
GEOLOGICAL MAGARTNE™ 
VOLUME LVIII. bs f 
WwW Ue 
No. XI.—DECEMBER, 1921. ,, 
0 DECEMBER, 93 yy, Aran 
ORIGINAL ARTICLES. 
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Fossils from Western Persia. 
By Ernen D. Curriz, B.Sc., Hunterian Museum, Glasgow 
University. 
(PLATE XI.) 
COLLECTION of fossils from the area of Pusht-i-Kuh, on the 
western border of Persia, has been forwarded recently to 
Glasgow University by Dr. W. R. Smellie. 
The geology of Luristan in Persia has been studied by J. de 
Morgan (Miss. Sci. Perse, vol. iii, pt. i, Htude Géol., 1905), whose 
collection of fossils has been described by Cotteau, Gauthier, and 
Douvillé (ibid., pts. ii, iii, and iv). With one or two exceptions the 
their age is apparently Senonian. The collection consists chiefly of 
echinoids, but includes also various molluscs, brachiopods, and 
bryozoa. 
The following echinoids are present :— 
1. Cidaris persica Cotteau & Gauthier, 1895 (ibid., pt. u, p. 79, 
pl. xii, figs. 1-5). 
Localities —Aftab, Dere-i-Sahir, Endjir-kuh (coll. de Morgan). 
Shakarau, Warriz, Kabir Kuh 2 (coll. Dr. Smellie). 
One specimen is greatly distorted and another is merely a segment 
of a test. The segment resembles C. persica in all respects except 
that the number of granules in the ambulacral areas increases to 
eight near the ambitus instead of six as in other specimens. 
DIAM. HEIGHT. 
Dimensions. 14 mm. 9°5 mm. 
2. Rhabdocidaris morgant Gauthier, 1902 (ibid., pt. i, p. 145, 
pl. xx, figs. 3-6). _ 
The exact locality at which de Morgan originally obtained the 
species has been lost. Dr. Smellie’s specimens are a fragment of 
a test and an interambulacral plate. These are from Warriz. 
3. Salenia cossiea Cotteau & Gauthier, 1895 (ibid., pt. 1, p. 83, 
pl. xii, figs. 13-19). 
Localities —Dere-i-Sahir, Endjir-kuh, Aftab (de Morgan). 
Warriz, Atash Gah (Dr. Smellie). 
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