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agree in type and mode of preservation with those from the Vemavaram. 

 beds, were as follows : — 



FEOM iDUPTTIiAPADU. 



Plants — 



Dictyozamites indicus. 

 PteropAyllum sp. 

 Alethojpteris indica. 

 Equisetum ? 

 Otozamites ? 



Shells— 



Pecten sp. 

 JPleurotomaria sp. ? 

 Dentalium sp. ? 



Feom Deonadttla. 



Plants — 



Dictyoxamites indicus. 

 Ptilophyllum cutchense ? 



Do. acutifolium. 



Angiopteridium spatlwlatum . 

 Araucarites macropterus ? 



Shells— 



Ammonites sp., fragt. 

 Astarte sp. ? 

 Yoldia sp. ? 



and several obscure ill-preserved bivalves. 



In several cases the plant-remains and shells were found side by side 

 in the same pieces of shale. All the plant-remains are very f ragmentary, 

 but otherwise they are well preserved and easily distinguishable. 



The beds roll about to some extent at various but generally low 

 angles. 



Yellowish buffy sandy shale underlies the cotton soil and lateritio 

 gravel near the eastern extremity of the Idulapadu patch, but is only 

 exposed in a well-section, which lies about three-quarters of a mile 

 east-south-east of Duggubadu. 



A very small patch of Rajmahal beds separated from the Idupulapadu 

 patch by the alluvium of the Dronadula nullah occurs immediately 

 north-east of the latter village. It is separated to the north by 

 another strip of alluvium from the large Punur patch of Rajmahal 

 rocks. 



As shown by the map, the Punur patch is of very irregular trilobed 



shape, but of considerable size. Like the other 

 The Punur patch. 



patches, it rises but little over the general level of 



the alluvium, and is almost everywhere thickly covered by cotton soil, 



and the sub-rock is exposed only in artificial sections. The largest 



exposure of the rocks is seen in the bottom of the tank south of the village 



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