﻿A. 
  W. 
  WATEKS 
  ON 
  FOSSILS 
  FROM 
  OBERBURG, 
  STYRIA. 
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  27. 
  Remarks 
  on 
  Fossils 
  from 
  Oberburg, 
  Sitria 
  . 
  By 
  A. 
  W. 
  

   Waters, 
  Esq., 
  F.G.S. 
  (Read 
  January 
  21, 
  1874.) 
  

  

  The 
  Eocene 
  occurs 
  in 
  Styria 
  only 
  in 
  a 
  small 
  district 
  in 
  the 
  south, 
  

   in 
  the 
  neighbourhood 
  of 
  Oberburg. 
  These 
  beds 
  are 
  followed 
  by 
  

   extensive 
  deposits 
  of 
  later 
  Tertiaries, 
  which 
  attain 
  their 
  fullest 
  

   development 
  in 
  the 
  central 
  part 
  of 
  the 
  country. 
  It 
  was 
  these 
  

   latter 
  beds 
  (the 
  " 
  Neogen 
  " 
  of 
  the 
  Austrians) 
  which 
  were 
  studied 
  by 
  

   Sedgwick 
  and 
  Murchison, 
  and 
  described 
  in 
  their 
  classical 
  paper 
  on 
  

   the 
  Eastern 
  Alps, 
  the 
  occurrence 
  of 
  the 
  Eocene 
  being 
  then 
  unknown 
  

   to 
  them. 
  

  

  But 
  since 
  the 
  researches 
  of 
  these 
  two 
  geologists, 
  who 
  have 
  done 
  

   so 
  much 
  for 
  Alpine 
  geology, 
  the 
  occurrence 
  of 
  a 
  Nummulitic 
  deposit 
  

   containing 
  a 
  rich 
  store 
  of 
  well-preserved 
  Anthozoa 
  has 
  been 
  made 
  

   known 
  to 
  geologists 
  and 
  palaeontologists 
  through 
  the 
  publication 
  of 
  a 
  

   monograph 
  by 
  the 
  late 
  Professor 
  von 
  Reuss, 
  " 
  Die 
  fossilen 
  Foramini- 
  

   feren, 
  Anthozoen, 
  und 
  Bryozoen," 
  Denkschriften 
  der 
  Akademie 
  der 
  

   Wissenschaften 
  in 
  Wien,1864. 
  

  

  From 
  this 
  monograph 
  it 
  is 
  not 
  a 
  difficult 
  task 
  to 
  determine 
  the 
  

   corals 
  which 
  I 
  collected 
  this 
  summer 
  during 
  a 
  short 
  stay 
  in 
  Ober- 
  

   burg. 
  

  

  Since 
  the 
  publication 
  of 
  the 
  above, 
  the 
  geological 
  relationships 
  of 
  

   the 
  district 
  have 
  been 
  fully 
  discussed 
  by 
  Stur 
  in 
  his 
  " 
  Geologie 
  der 
  

   Steiermark." 
  

  

  There 
  are 
  two 
  points, 
  about 
  ten 
  miles 
  distant, 
  which 
  have 
  yielded 
  

   the 
  richest 
  harvest 
  ; 
  these 
  are 
  Gradischneg 
  and 
  Neustift 
  ; 
  and 
  the 
  

   fossils 
  found 
  in 
  each 
  are 
  designated 
  in 
  Stur's 
  list. 
  Since 
  I 
  have 
  found 
  

   several 
  fossils 
  in 
  both 
  places 
  which 
  had 
  only 
  been 
  found 
  in 
  one 
  of 
  

   the 
  localities, 
  I 
  have 
  thought 
  it 
  well 
  to 
  make 
  out 
  a 
  corrected 
  copy 
  

   of 
  Stur's 
  catalogue. 
  

  

  Corrected 
  List 
  of 
  the 
  Fossils 
  from 
  the 
  Nummulitic 
  Formation 
  of 
  

   Oberburg 
  (0) 
  and 
  Neustift 
  (N), 
  Styria. 
  

  

  Melobesia, 
  sp. 
  

  

  Lithothamnium 
  nurnmuliticuni, 
  

   Giimb. 
  O, 
  N. 
  

  

  Natica 
  crassatina, 
  Lam. 
  O, 
  N. 
  

  

  obesa, 
  Brongn. 
  O. 
  

  

  perusta, 
  Brongn. 
  O. 
  

  

  Delphinula 
  scobina, 
  Brongn. 
  O, 
  N 
  

   Fusus 
  subcarinatus, 
  Lam. 
  O. 
  

   Turritella 
  oberburgensis, 
  Ess. 
  

  

  asperula, 
  Brongn. 
  O. 
  

  

  Cerithium 
  trochleare, 
  Lam. 
  O. 
  

  

  Diastoma 
  costellata, 
  Lam. 
  O. 
  

  

  Panopsea, 
  sp. 
  N. 
  

  

  Venus 
  Aglaurse, 
  Brongn. 
  O, 
  N. 
  

  

  Crassatella 
  tumida, 
  Lam. 
  0, 
  N. 
  

  

  Cardium, 
  sp. 
  O, 
  N. 
  

  

  Pecten 
  Graved, 
  D'Arck. 
  O. 
  

  

  Perna 
  Sandbergen, 
  Desk. 
  O. 
  

  

  Ostrea, 
  sp. 
  

  

  Turritella 
  incisa, 
  Brongn. 
  N. 
  

  

  Verneuilina 
  oberburgensis, 
  Freyer. 
  

  

  N, 
  O. 
  

   Clavulina 
  triquetra, 
  Ess. 
  O, 
  N. 
  

   Spiroloculina 
  striatella, 
  Ess. 
  N. 
  

  

  Morloti, 
  Ess. 
  N. 
  

  

  Freyeri, 
  Ess. 
  N. 
  

  

  Triloculina 
  trigonula, 
  Lam. 
  N. 
  

  

  ■ 
  oblonga, 
  Montagu. 
  N. 
  

  

  granulata, 
  Ess. 
  N. 
  

  

  Quinqueloculina 
  hiantula, 
  Ess. 
  N. 
  

   Vertebralina 
  sulcata, 
  Ess. 
  N. 
  

   Discorbina 
  obtusa, 
  L>' 
  Orb. 
  N. 
  

   Truncatulina 
  variabilis, 
  L' 
  Orb. 
  N. 
  

   Piotalia 
  formosa, 
  Ess. 
  N, 
  O. 
  

  

  