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wliieh Rojla hill west forms a part, rest on a thick deposit of infra- 



trappean grit similar to that of Bhoojia hill ; it 



Infra-trappean grit. • • , , 



IS inconstant, not appearing everywhere along 



the escarpment of the traps, and if unconformable at this place does not 



seem so. 



The portion of the central plain east of Bhooj does not afford good 



data from which to calculate the local thickness of the upper Jurassic 



group. This, however, probably much exceeds 1,500 feet. 



Northward of these Rojla hills lies the small village of Kukurbit, 

 ^, , , . by far the finest locality found in Kuteh for the 



Kukurbit. 



terrestrial plants of the upper Jurassic rocks. 

 The neighbourhood presents such sections as are to be seen elsewhere 

 in these beds, with the usual kinds of white sandstone and ferruginous 

 layers, and the beds of gray shales which may occur anywhere among 

 these upper rocks. 



In some gray flaggy shales of slight thickness overlying more 

 sandy shales and light coloured sandstones just north of the village, 

 where a country road descends the right bank of the river, the fossils 

 occur in profusion, fractures parallel to the planes of stratification ex- 

 hibiting their impressions, matted and interlaced together. They include 

 several Yarieties oi Palceozamiis, Taxodites (?), CmungJiamites (?), earpellary 

 scales of Conifers, inflorescence of Cycads, Cycadeous stems, Taniopteris, 

 Pecopferis, seeds and stems* without a vestige of anything besides plant 



* The following fossils were found at Kukurbit by Mr. Blanford— (aj^e Paper on 

 Kuteli already quoted) : — 



CycadecE . . . FalcBOzamia CutcJiensis, Morris, very abundant. 

 „ ... „ acittifolium, ditto. 



„ ... „ Bengalensis, Oldham. 



ConiferiB ... Bracliyphyllum ? sp., common. ' 



„ ... Taxodites ? sp., new. 



Small Walchia-like stems (perhaps Lyoopodites affinis, Morris). 

 Filices ... Tceniopteris — ■ sp., fragmentary (may be T. ovalis), 



1, ... SpJienopteris ? sp., common. 



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