120 Notices of Memoirs — K. A. Penecke — Eocenes in Carinthia. 



addition to a new genus, Bundenbachia, this group also includes the 

 genera Tceniaster, Billings, Engaster, Hall, possibly also Ptilonaster, 

 Hall, and Protaster Forbesi, Hall, with Protaster Sedgwiclci, Forbes. 



Under the Asterice verce, or true Starfishes, are placed Eoemeraster 

 asperula, Koemer sp., Astropeeten Schlueteri, St., Palastropectcn 

 Zitteli, St. n. gen. et sp., Eoluidia Decheni, St., n. gen. et sp., and 

 Protasteracanthion primus, St. n. gen. et sp. 



The following genera and species are placed in the group of the 

 Encrinasterice: Axpidosoma Tischbeinianum, Roemer; Loriol aster mi ra- 

 bilis, St. ; and Palasteriscus devonicus, St. 



The species described are all figured in the accompanying plates 

 and enlarged representations are given of their structural characters. 



G. J. H. 



II. — The Eocene Strata of the Krappfeld, Carinthia. By K. 

 A. Penecke. Imper. Geol. Inst. Vienna, Meeting 17th Novem- 

 ber, 1885. Communicated by Count Marschall, F.C.G.S. 

 ONLY small portions of the Eocenes, resting partly on Cretaceous 

 rocks and partly on Palaeozoic schists, have escaped denuda- 

 tion. In one of these patches, the succession (upwards) is — 



1. Lower red clays, with gravelly beds and conglomerates. 2. 

 Modiola-marls, with, for the most part, badly preserved remains ; 

 Modiola, sp. (compare crenella, Desh.), is the most frequent. 8. Two 

 or three seams of bright coal, with bituminous shales, containing 

 brackish- water shells as Faunvs combustus, Brongn., F. undosus, 

 Brongn., Melanopsis, sp., Planorbis, sp., and Cytherea Lamberti, 

 Desh. 4. Gasteropod-marls ; similar to the foregoing marls, and 

 abounding with well-preserved shells, as Turritella Fuchsi, sp. nov., 

 Cerithium mutabile, C. Canavali, sp. nov., Natica perusta, and Ostrea 

 Canavali, sp. nov., ; together with Nummulites contortus, Desh., Ser- 

 pida spiruloea, Modiola crenella, Cyrena Veronensis, Faunas combustus, 

 F. undosus, Fusus longcavus, etc. 5. Nummulitic Marls. Here Gas- 

 teropods are gradually being superseded by Nummulites. The 

 prevalent fossils ai'e : Orbitoides Fortisii, Operculina Karreri, sp.nov., 

 Nummidites complanatus, N. perforatus, N. Lucasanus, N. contortus, 

 N. exponens, Natica Vulcani, and Cerithium Canavali. 6. Nummu- 

 litic Limestones gradually coming out of the uppermost horizon of 

 No. 5. They contain many Echinids, Molluscs, etc., as Alveolina 

 longa, Nummulites complanatus, N. perforatus, N. contortus, Conocly- 

 peus conoideus, Echinolampas (comp. Suessi), Pygorhynchus Mayeri, 

 LintMa Heberti, Ostrea rarilamella, Velates Schmiedeliana, Ovida 

 gigantea, etc. 7. Variolarius-strata. Bather thin sands, and beds 

 of compact sandstone, full of Nummulites variolarius. 



Some of these beds, to a greater or less extent, are wanting, or are 

 represented by other deposits, elsewhere in the Krappfeld. At one 

 place some fine sands occur in the uppermost horizon of the Nummu- 

 litic Marls; and they contain good specimens of Echinanthus tumidus, 

 Agass., LintMa scarabo&us, Lbe., L. Heberti, Cott., and Ottiliaster 

 pusillus, nov. gen. et sp. A comparison of the several sections proves 

 the existence of two special horizons in the Krappfeld Eocenes : an 



