188 L] fossils of the Indian Gondwana system. 175 



With regard to the fossil contents of these several groups, I have to 

 make the following remarks : 



a. Jabalpur division. 



Umia group. — A name proposed by Dr. Stoliczka, for the uppermost 

 Jurassic beds in Kach. It contains marine animals, plants (Piilophyllum) ; 

 a jaw of Plesiosaurus (indicus) was also found. 



Recently Mr. Fedden recognised the same group in Kathiawar, although 

 it shows there a somewhat closer relation to the next group. 



Marine representatives of it are the Tripetty sandstones of Mr. W. 

 King ; and the Chikiala sandstones (unfossiliferous) of the Upper Godavari 

 basin (C. Pr.) are probably representatives of these latter. 



Jabalpur group. — 1871. Oldham, Geology of the Central Provinces, Rec. Geol. Sur- 

 vey of India, Vol. IV, p. 75. 



The uppermost group of the Gondwana system in the South Rewah 

 and Satpura basin, called so from the town of Jabalpur, the terminus of the 

 East Indian Railway. It contains plant-remains only. In South Rewah 

 it contains some species which afterwards become very numerous in the 

 next lower group (Sripermatur, Vemdveram) , and in shales from the Sher 

 river, Satpura basin, specimens of Glossopteris, a lower Gondwana fossil, 

 were identified. 



Bdgra group. — 1872, H. B. Medlicott: Notes on the Satpura Basin, Mem. G. S. I. 

 Vol. X, pp. 133, 150. 



No fossils have been found hitherto in this group ; and no represen- 

 tatives of it have been met with elsewhere j called so from fort Bagra on 

 the G. I. P. Railway. 



b. Intermediate Geoups. 



Kota-Maleri group.— 1876, Hughes : Rec. G. S. I. Vol. IX, Pt. 3. 



1877, Hughes : The Wardha valley coalfield, Mem. G. S. I. Vol. XIII, Pt. 1, 

 p. 81. 



1877, W. King, Rec. G. S. I. Vol. X, Pt. 2, p. 58. 



This group (composed of two horizons) contains interesting terrestrial 

 and freshwater fossils (reptiles and fishes). The red clays at Maleri (with 

 reptiles and Ceratodus teeth) are, however, considered lower than the 

 limestones of Kota (with ganoid fishes). The group takes its name from 

 the localities Kota (near Sironcha, Cent. Prov.) and Maleri middle 

 Godavari basin, south of Chanda. 



The plant-beds of Chirakunt, (middle Godavari basin, Cent. Prov.), 

 are on the same horizon and these plants are of the same character as those 

 of some other groups to be mentioned presently. 



This group has hitherto been only known from the C. Provinces (upper 

 and middle Godavari basin), till quite recently, when, Mr. Hughes discovered 



