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that with some uncertainty. Fdchs ^) gives from here the follo- 

 wing list of fossils : 



Siliquaria sp. 

 Pharella sp. 

 Psammosolen (Macha) sp. 



* ? Psammobia sp. 

 ? Thracia sp. 



* Cytherea (Callista) sp. 



? Venus (Circomphalus) sp. 

 ? Terebratula sp. 



Moreover these fossils come from two different horizons, 

 the two here marked with asterisks are supposed to belong 

 to a somewhat higher horizon than the others; but though these 

 two species are different from those that were found in the 

 lower horizon, they do not appear to Fuchs to belong to any 

 essentially different Fauna. The whole fauna was critically 

 examined by him, and he came to the conclusion that it pro- 

 bably must be called Miocene. 



M. Semper^) was, on account of a misapprehension, doubtful 

 as to the presence of marine Tertiary in East-Greenland 

 and at Spitzbergen, but Nathorst^) maintained the occurrence 

 of very large Tertiary deposits with marine-shells at Spitzbergen; 

 and after having mentioned Fdchs's examinations of the fossils 

 from Hochstetters Vorland, he expresses himself in the folio- 

 wing terms about the Marine Tertiary of East-Greenland: »Auch 

 das Vorkommen mariner Tertiar-Conchylien in Ost-Grönland 

 scheint demnach ganz sicher ; und man wird wohl mit der 



') Th. Fuchs: 1. с p. 7—8. 



^) M. Semper: Das palaeothermale Problem, speciell die klimatischen Ver- 

 hältnisse des Eocaen in Europa und im Polargebiet. — Zeitschr. d. 

 deutsch, geol. Gesellschaft. Bd. 48. Berlin 1896. S. 266. 



*) A. G. Nathorst: Marine Conchylien im Tertiär Spitzbergens und Ost- 

 grönlands. — Zeitschr. d. deutsch, geol. Ges. Bd. 48. Berlin 1896. S. 

 983—86. 

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