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cimens of Scaphites Römeri d.'Orb, though Iheir fauna accor- 

 ding to De Loriol^) ordinarily consists partly of new species, 

 and partly of such as have been described by Meek and 

 Eayden from the North-American «Fox hills' group». As this 

 group is reckoned to belong to the Upper Senonian of which 

 Scaphites Bömeri d'Orb. is also characteristic, it does not seem 

 improbable to me that the above mentioned sandstone from 

 Alianaitsunguak might belong to the older Tertiary. If this is 

 the case it would be highly interesting to have this sandstone 

 more closely examined, as there is a possibility that the West- 

 Greenland marine Tertiary may be more closely connected with 

 the American, than with the European Tertiary, a thing which 

 cannot at all be said to be the case with the marine Tertiary 

 from Кар Dalton. 



Also marine Tertiary formations are said to be known from 

 Iceland, viz. from the well known locality Halbjarnarstadir, 

 and a few other places. The fauna found here is however quite 

 different from the one from Кар Dalton, and must, according to 

 the opinion of various naturahsts, be considered as being 

 much younger ^). 



If we now consider the West-European Tertiary, we find 

 deposits there which have much in common with those at 

 Кар Dalton. This resemblance is so great, that I believe we 

 may draw a parallel between the East-Greenland Tertiary, and 



^) P. DE Loriol: Om fossile Saltvandsdyr fra Nord-Grønland. Genf 1882. 

 (Meddelt i et Brev til Prof. O. Heer). — Medd. om Grønland. Hefte 5. 

 Kjøbenhavn 1883. S. 205. 



^) In the archives of the Museum of Mineralogy are found four plates, 

 showing figures of moUusca from this locality; these four plates were 

 composed by 0. Mørch, but were not published before his death. Later 

 (1884), C. M. Poulsen undertook the revision of the plates and the 

 composition of a text; this text, however, was never published, but 

 the MS is deposited in the archives of the Museum; it shows that ac- 

 cording to Poulsen's opinion the fauna from Halbjarnarstadir may be 

 considered to be still younger than the youngest of the English Crag- 

 faunas. 



