648 E.W. BERRY PLANT-BEARING BEDS IN SOUTH AMERICA 



Panama, the Paita stage of Peru, the Coquimbo and Caldera beds of 

 Chile, the Parana beds of Patagonia, and the Pecten beds of Graham 

 Land. It is also emphasized by the presence of a marine Pliocene fauna 

 at elevations of over 13,000 feet in the eastern Andes of Bolivia. ^^ The 

 subsequent history need not be discussed, although this widespread simi- 

 larity of events continued throughout the coastal region down to the 

 present. 



This parallelism in the movements of the strand over so vast an area 

 is so remarkable that I have gathered together such information as is 

 available in the accompanying table. "While this is very incomplete, it 

 seems worth presenting in tabular form and it will also serve as a graphic 

 summary, without additional discussion, of the correlations that I have 

 arrived at from a study of these various plant-bearing horizons and asso- 

 ciated beds in South America. 



21 E. W. Berry : U. S. Natl. Mus., Proc, vol. 54, 1918, no. 2229. 



