8 ■ WAAGEN : CARBONIFEROUS AMMONITES, &C. 



fact with the Cephalopods ; since Mihister, in his Memoir on St. Cassian 

 in 1841j stated, that at this locality Ammonites, Ceratites, and Goniatiies 

 occTUTed in one and the same bed, the association of those three genera 

 has been discussed jsro and contra jediX after year, until scientific people at 

 last believed that they had satisfied themselves that the Ceratites and 

 Goniatites of St. Cassian were both young Ammonites, and that no such 

 thing existed as an association of those genera in the same bed. That 

 the question was nevertheless not definitively solved is shown by the 

 specimens I collected in the Salt Range, and now, at last, one can say 

 with confidence, that ' Ammonites, Ceratites, and Goniatite^ are associated 

 in one and the same bed iu one of the formations of India. 



We have as yet little or no indication that this Cephalopoda bed of 

 the carboniferous formation of the Salt Range is represented at any 

 other known locality. The affinity, however, of Goniatites primas, W. 

 to G. Orhignyanns, has led us to a comparison with the sandstones of 

 Artinsk, which are considered by the authors, Verneuil and Keyserling, 

 as well as by Ludwig, to be among the highest beds of the carboni- 

 ferous series. Whilst a certain slight resemblance between Phylloceras 

 OldJiami and Phyll. megaphjllum, Beyr.,* recalls the fossils of the 

 Isle of Timor, from which island Dr. Schneider sent, to the Berlin 

 museum, the last mentioned species together with many carboniferous 

 fossils. There is, however, no evidence as to the stratigraphical relations 

 of the beds in which they were found. 



* Mouatsber. Berliu Akad., 1S64, p. 59. 



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