JOURNAL 
OF THE 
ASIATIC SOCIETY OF BENGAL. 
New Series. 
Vol, VII.—1911. 
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1. On the occurrence of Maestrichtien fossils at Kacch 
station in British Baluchistan. 
By Hem Cuanpra Das Gupta, 
sh group of black shales was described by Mr. Oldham 
belemnite shales from the abundance ce of Belemnites i in sedis 1 
Noetling * who assigned a lower cretaceous, neocomian (hauteri- 
vien) age to these rocks. Fossils from the belemnites shales have 
also been obtained by Mr. Tipper.* These belemnite shales 
are overlaid by another group of upper cretaceous (maestrich- 
tien) shales which are often lithologically much alike. Moreover 
as there is a stratigraphical gap between the upper and lower 
cretaceous, and as either one or the other may be missing in 
certain sections, some care is needed to distinguish them. 
an instance of this I may cite the.case of an exposure of shales 
at Kacch, a station on the Sind-Pishin section of the North 
Western Railway, which was visited by me in the summer of 
1907 with the Presidency College Geological party. 
A geologically coloured map of British Baluchistan has 
been published,’ and it appears from the map that a 
comian age has been assigned to this locality. A few 
fossils collected from this tl however, go to prove that 
1 Rec. Geol. Surv., Ind., Vol. 3. xxy, pt 1p. 18. 
4 Rec. Geol. Surv., Ind., Vol. xxxi, pl. 
