78 CRETACEOUS ROCKS OF S. INDIA. [PaRT IL § 1. 



The above list is, in all probability, very imperfect, as may be expected 



from the nature of the materials from which it is drawn up, and it is 



likely that there are many omissions which will become apparent when 



the collections are fully examined,* Such as it is 

 Remarks on the above. 



however, it is characteristically Cretaceous. The 



presence of such genera as Cinulia, Acteonella and Radiolites, and the 



great abundance of Inocerami, no less than the absence of most genera 



especially characteristic of Oohtic or Tertiary times fully respond to the 



indications afforded by the Cephalopoda of the Cretaceous age of the 



fauna. 



Of other forms of life we have many instances. Corals of several 



sp'ecies occur in the lower beds, many of them 

 Corals. 



derived from the wreck of the reef limestone, 



but some also of contemporaneous origin. Of 

 Annelids. 



Annehds also, there are several species, some of 



them peculiar to and very characteristic of the group. Wherever they 



occur, they are always in great abundance, and are very characteristic of 



certain beds. Of the Crustacea, I have met with 

 No Crustacea. 



no examples. The " Crustacean" remains men- 

 tioned as occuri'iug in great abundance (by Dr. Muzzy,) in the Belemnite 

 clays of Ootatoor are, as I have previously mentioned, concretionary 

 nodules, as also are the fossil turtles mentioned by the same observer. 



,^ , , , . The remains of vertebrate animals are also very 



Vertebrate remams J 



^^^^"^'^- scarce, the vertebra and teeth of a fish (a shark) 



and a few bones of doubtful nature being the only instances of their 

 occurrence. 



* The number of the smaller forms of Gasteropoda and Conchifera will I believe be lai-gely 

 increased on examination. These occur crowded together, and chiefly is casts, iu which form 

 they are not easily recognizable on a rapid glance. A more perfect list must be reserved for 

 a work specially devoted to the Palajontology of the Cretaceous rocks ; the great mass of fossils 

 on hand precluding the possibility of a re-exammation for the mere purposeof improving, not 

 perfectuig the above, and the other generic lists now published. 



