486 Br. Feistmantel — The Gondicana Series of India. 



beds of Eaj avapuram, seems to me an intermediate formation between 

 the Kaclili and the Eajmahal Series. They are not sufficiently ex- 

 amined as yet to speak with certainty on this point. 



In considering the upper portion of the Gondwana Series we have 

 the following list of groups and their relations : 



Northern Part of' 

 tlie Peninsula 

 of India. 



South-east Coast 

 of India. 



West Asia. 



Europe. 



Africa. 



1. Jabalpurand 



Beds near Co- 



Dhagestan 



Eussia, Ger- 



Upper portion 



Kacbh Gi-roups. 



conada. 



(Plants). 



many, etc. 



of the Uiten- 



Plants ; marine 



( Trigonia bed 





Yorkshire. . 



hage Forma- 



and terrestrial 



of Mr. King.) 







tion (Trigonia 



animals (Oolite) 



S riper matnr 

 Group, near 

 Madi-as and 

 Eaj avapuram 

 (Plants, ani- 

 mals). 







bed). 



2. Eajmahal 



Atgurh. Gola- 



North Persia 



Alps, Fiinfkir- 



? Lower por- 



HiUs. Plants 



pili (Plants). 



(Plants). 



chen, Banat, 



tion of the 



only (Lias). 







Whitby ? 

 (Plants). 



Uitenhage For- 

 mation (Plants). 



From this we may deduce .: 



1. A connexion of the marine beds of tiie Xachh Series with the upper portion of 

 the Uitenhage formation in Africa, and with European Oolites at the same geological 

 era, and 



2. A connexion of the plant beds of the Jabalpur Group and Kachh, through 

 Dhagestan, Eussia, with Eui'ope, and on to Yorkshire at the same epoch. 



3. A connexion of the Eajmahal Series in the Eajmahal Hills, passing Atgurh, 

 with Golapili, also through North Persia with the Banat, Fiinfkirelien, and the Alps 

 on the north, and perhaps with the lower portion of the Uitenhage formation in 

 South Africa. 



4. That there was no connexion at this time with the Australian region. 



II. Fossils of the Lower Portion of the Gondwanas. 

 To understand the age and relations of the lower part of the 

 Gondwana rocks, we have again two groups to consider, known to 

 Indian Geologists as the Panchet and the Damuda beds. From a 

 palseontological point of view I consider both of these as of one 

 epoch, and would include with the latter the Talchir Group, as of 

 the same or nearly the same age. 



a. Fossils of the Panchet Group. 



The vertebrate fossils have been described by Professor Huxley,' 

 and on account of these the Panchet Group has been considered as 

 probably Triassic.^ The remains are principally Dicynodon orientalis, 

 Huxl. (portion of a skull, tusks, vertebral extremities are known), 

 and GonioglyiHus longirostris, Huxl. (portion of a skull, dermal plates, 

 etc.). 



1 Palffiont. Indica, 1865 (4, 1). 



2 Oldham, Mem. Geol. Surv. India, vol. iii. 



