1881.] fossils of the Indian Gondwdna system. 217 



Sauropterygia. 



Plesiosaurus* indicus, fLyd. 



1879. Wynne, Geology of Kach ; Mem. Geol. Survey of India, Vol. IX, p. 129, 

 (mentions the jaw.) 



1879. Lydekker, Pal. ind. Ser., IV, 3, p. 28. PI. VI, fig. 1. 

 Upper Gondwdnas : Umia group, near Bururia, Kach. 



Anomodontia. 



Dicynodon% orientalist Huxley. 



1865. Huxley, Pal. ind. Ser., IV, 1, pp. 8-11, Pis. I— V. 

 1879. Lydekker, ib. Ser. IV, 3, pp. 1-17, PI. I, II, III, 1-11. 



Lower Gondwdnas : Panchet group , near Deoli, Damuda river, S. W. 

 Assensole, Raniganj coalfield. 



Deinosauria. 



An7cistrodon\\ indicus, Huxley. 



1865. Huxley, I. c, pp. 11-12, figure on p. 12. 

 1879. Lydekker, I c, p. 17. 



Lower Gondwdnas ; Same as preceding. 



Concluding remarks. 



This sketch being merely written to convey an idea as to the amount 

 and character of the fossils hitherto known from the interesting Gondwana 

 system in India, without the intention of any extensive discussion of its 

 age, the correlation of the groups, or of all the views hitherto proposed 

 and disputed, I shall conclude with a few remarks regarding the chief 

 peculiarities of the fossils of the system. 



1. Four of the genera of plants in the lower Gondwanas are also 

 met with in the lower coalmeasures of Australia {viz. New South Wales), 

 these are : — JPhyllotheca, Vertebraria, Glossopteris and Noggerathiopsis, 

 they are, however, more developed in the upper coalmeasures (New Castle- 

 beds), at the top of the palaeozoic epoch, where we also find the first 

 appearance of Gangamopteris. By means of these four genera our Damuda 

 Series were formerly correlated with the Australian beds. But while entirely 

 admitting the fact of this common occurrence, we can now state, that 

 JBhyllotheca on the other hand is very abundant in the Jurassic beds of 



* Plesios (gr.) = near; Sauros ; (gr.) = a lizard. 



f Indian. 



% Dis (gr.) = twice ; Kyon (gr.) = dog ; odus (gr.) = a tooth. 



§ Oriental. 



|| Ankistron (gr.) = a hook ; odus (gr.) = a tooth. 



