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This member of the group was not much 

 examined by us, and I can by no means 

 affirm that it does not contain fossil re- 

 mains. 



2. Sandstone, becoming more marly 

 and argillaceous. 



3. Thicker-bedded sandstone, passing- 

 down into 



4. Dark-coloured shale. 



5. Coarser and reddish-brown sand- 

 stone in dark- coloured shale. 



6. Blackish shale, with small nodular 

 concretions of cement- stone and septaria, 

 passing down into thin laminse of ar- 

 gillaceous limestone, with concretionary 

 potato-stones, Fish-scales, and Copro- 

 lites. 



7. Thin courses of black shale, gra- 

 duating with dark bituminous flagstones, 

 with fossil Fishes — Palceoniscus, <fcc. 

 (These occur a little to the north of the 

 Liebestadtl station, at Kostialow.) 



8. Sandy and argillaceous dark-co- 

 loured shale, becoming in the lower part 

 what is locally called ' Thon-schiefer.' 

 In the lower part is one layer of thin 

 flinty limestone, concretionary in parts, 

 and below it the bituminous shale gra- 

 duates into a true coal, with impressions 

 of Plants in the associated shale. This 

 coal was formerly worked to some extent 

 in the adjacent hill of Cikoasko, though 

 as exposed on the side of the railway it 

 is of small thickness. 



It is in this portion of the series, and 

 particularly in its western extension to 

 Hohenelbe, that many of the Fishes and 

 Reptiles have been found which charac- 

 terize this central member of the group. 

 The dip here is about 20° to the S.E. 



9. Brown shale with strong sandstone 

 bands of. about 6 feet each in thickness. 

 These sandstones graduate into the so- 

 called ' arkose' of the Austrian Surveyors, 

 one of the lower beds of which is a con- 

 glomerate, with many pebbles of white 

 quartz. Fossil plants (notably large 

 stems of Arancarites) occur in the sand- 

 stones and shales. 



10. Courses of ' copper-slate,' contain- 



