42 KINC4 : COASTAL REGION OF THE GODAVARI DISTRICT. 



the more friable seam below. The greatest show of fossils was, how- 

 ever, obtained from the Gowripatnam outcrop, and 



Fossils 



it was here that the fragments of Nautilus and the 

 chela of the crab were found. The large blocks seen in the small 

 temple and chabutra at Dudkur were doubtless obtained from the out- 

 crops towards Gowripatnam, for I could see no thick enough beds for 

 them anywhere near the village. 



The dip of the beds is at 5°— 10° south-east, or east-south-east; the 

 more prevalent being about 10°. 



There is no sign of any alteration of these beds by the superincum- 

 bent trap ; they are good ordinary rough sandy 

 Apparently unaffected 

 by superincumbent trap. limestones. 



Regarding the age of these beds, they are certainly, for this region, 

 Eelation to Deccan older than the trap series, only it is not at all 

 trap series. clear to what portion of this series these flows of 



the eastern coastal region belong- ; and they appear to have been denuded 

 before the trap was poured out : indeed, as far as the generally massive 

 condition of the trap goes, the surface over which they were poured may 

 have been dry land ; at any rate, it could hardly have been the bottom 

 of the sea in which the shells now preserved in the rock lived. It will 

 also be seen later on that the non-parallelism of these beds with the over- 

 lying trap and their intermediate fossiliferous band, and the overlap of 

 these, are against the two being very closely connected groups of a series. 

 The majority of the fossils are such as are usually considered as of 

 tertiary age, particularly the Gasteropoda ; but the 

 prevalent Turritella appears to be very close to 

 T. dispassa, Stol., a cretaceous species from the Ariyalur beds of the 

 Trichinopoly district. 1 The Volutilitlies is very like Voluta torulosa t 

 Desh., which is a Calcaire Grossier species. 



There is a strong resemblance, lithologically, between these beds and 

 those of the Lameta group, as described by the 

 late J. G. Medlicott for the typical locality on 



1 Cretaceous Fauna of Southern India, Vol. II. 

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