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the marine Makran group in Baluchistan may represent the fresh-water 

 Manchhars and Siwaliks on the edge of the Indo-Gangetie plain. 



The only fossil remains of any importance hitherto detected in the 

 Paleontology of Man- Mauchhar group are bones of mammalia, and all 

 cbhar group. ^hat have been recognized belong to the lower 



Manchhars; the upper sub -division of the group, as has already been 

 mentioned, having hitherto furnished only a few bones, in too poor and 

 fragmentary a state of preservation for the species, or even the genera, 

 to be determined. The few estuarine shells which have been found in 

 the lowest Manchhar beds in Upper Sind, and a portion at least of the 

 marine fossils procured from a similar horizon near Karachi, appear to be 

 Gaj forms, and to indicate a close connection between the lower Man- 

 chhars and the underlying group. In places, and especially in the 

 neighbourhood of the Laid range, silicified fossil wood is found in 

 abundance in the Manchhar beds, stems of large trees being of common 

 occurrence. The majority are dicotyledonous, but some fragments of 

 monocotyledons are also found. 



The following is a list of the species of Tertebrata hitherto identified 

 from the lower Manchhar group : l it should perhaps be repeated that 

 the remains are extremely fragmentary, and chiefly consist of single 

 teeth and broken portions of bones. No remains of Quadrumana, 

 Chiroptera, Insectivora, Rodentia, or Cetacea, have hitherto been found, 

 and the fauna is chiefly remarkable for the prevalence of artiodactyle 

 ungulates, allied to pigs, or intermediate between pigs and ruminants. 



MAMMALIA. 



Caenivoba. 



Amphicyon pal<zindicus. 



Peoboscidia. 



Dinotherium pentepotamice* 

 D. indicum. 

 D. sp. nov. 



Mastodon perimensis. 



M. latidens. 



M. (Trilophodon) falconeri 



1 These have been named by Mr. Lydekker, Eec. Geol. Surv. India, ix, pp. 91, 93, 106; 

 x, pp. 76, 83, 225 ; xi, pp. 64, 71, 77, 79, &c; Pal. India, ser. X, pt. 2, pp. 7, 25, 44, 64, &c. 

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