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genera which Lenz and Fdchs mention from this locality (see 

 p. 96) only one, viz. Ästarte, has been found at Кар Dalton. 

 However too much significance must not be attached to this, 

 as the material from Hochstetters Vorland is very imperfect. 

 Tertiary fossils are said to be very frequent here, and it is 

 therefore to be hoped that we shall some day succeed in getting^ 

 both more abundant and better preserved material from this 

 part of Greenland, which is unfortunately so difficult of access. 



As has been already mentioned by Nathorst^) we shall 

 hardly be wrong in supposing that the marine Tertiary of Spitz- 

 bergen and Greenland was deposited in the same sea, and yet 

 FüCHs' list of the fauna from Kolbay at Spitzbergen (see p. 97) 

 has very Httle in common with the one from Кар Dalton, 

 as the only resemblance is that the genus Psammobia possibly 

 is common to both localities. As for Spitzbergen the same is 

 the case there as in Hochstetters Vorland, the material of the 

 marine Tertiary fossils is both scarce and in a bad state of pre- 

 servation. 



From the west coast of Greenland marine Tertiary has cer- 

 tainly not been mentioned in literature until now. Whether 

 the very coarsergrained sandstone found by K. J. V. Steenstrüp^) 

 at Alianaitsunguak is from the Tertiary beds I dare not 

 decide as the only fossils I have seen are a very large and 

 thick-shelled Dentalium and some imperfect remains of a 

 snail. But the sandstone however contains concretions derived 

 from older formations ; these concretions resemble those 

 which have been found near Niakornat, and in other localities, 

 and, according to V. Madsen^), they contain a number of spe- 



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

 grönlands. — Zeitschr. d. deutsch, geol. Gesellschaft. Bd. 48. Berlin 

 1896. S. 986. 



^) K. J. V. Steenstrup: Om Forekomsten af Forsteninger i de kulførende 

 DannelseriNord-Grønland. — Medd. om Grønland. Kjøbenhavn 1883. S. 63. 



^) V. Madsen: The genus Scaphites in West-Greenland. — Medd. fra Dansk 

 geolog. Foren. Nr. 4. Kjøbenhavn 1897. S. 45. 



