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GEOLOGICAL MEMOIRS. 



On some Paleozoic Fossils /rom the Cape of Good Hope. 

 By Dr. F. Sandberger. 



[Leonhard u. Bronn's Neues Jahrbuch fiir Min. u. s. w., 1852, p. 581-585.] 



In 1836 the English naturalist Dr. A. Smith brought with him on 

 his return from his travels in South Africa some fossils which were 

 found in abundance in the Cedar Bergen, according to Captain Alex- 

 ander * 150 English miles north of Cape Town and 2000 feet above 

 the sea, in an ash-grey quartzose sandstone ; and Murchison, in the 

 * Silurian System,' p. 653, enumerates the following species : — 



Homalonotus Herschelii, Murch. Nucula Smithii, Sow. 



Calymene Blumenbachii, Brongn. Turbo, sp. 



CucuUaea ovata, Sow. Turritella, sp. 



Leptsena lata, Sow. Conularia quadrisulcata, Sow. 



OrbicClla rugata, Sow. 



On this he remarks that amongst these fossils there are some that 

 are referable to the passage of the Old Red Sandstone into the Ludlow 

 group, and others that are very abundant in the Ludlow and "Wen- 

 lock groups ; and he therefore regards the rock in which these fossils 

 occur as Silurian. 



D'Archiac and De Verneuil, in their " Memoir on the Fossils of 

 the Older Deposits in the Rhenish Provinces f," add to the above 

 the following species : — 



Homalonotus Knightii, Keen. Spirifer macropterus, Goldf. 



Calymene Tristani, Brongn. speciosus, Schlth. 



Bellerophon aciitus. Sow. Leptaena membranacea, Phill. 



For the time when it was made this list contains nothing in itself 

 contradictory, for the lower division of the Rhenish System (the Spi- 



* Journal Royal Geogi-aph. Soc. vol. viii. p. 3. 

 t Trans. Geol. Soc. 2nd Ser. vol. vi. p. 303 et seg. 

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