30 GEOLOGICAL MEMOIRS. 



The strata of Stramberg, in Moravia, belong to the Upper or 

 White Jura. M. Suess has examined thirty-seven species of Brachi- 

 opods occurring in them : eight of these species are to be found in 

 the Scyphia-limestone of Suabia, and three of them are known in 

 the "Terrain Corallien" of the Department de l'Yonne. A rather 

 considerable number of species peculiar to the Scyphia-limestone of 

 Suabia seem to be associated with Northern- French forms in Mo- 

 ravia, and even as far as the Salzkammergut in Upper Austria. This 

 fact aifords a proof that, during the secondary period, the Suabian 

 forms extended along the southern, and the North-French forms 

 along the northern margin of the great Centro-European continent. 

 Above these " Stramberg-strata" M. Suess has observed, near Ni- 

 tholsburg in Moravia, others of more marly nature, palseontologi- 

 cally identical with those of Mattheim (Wurttemberg), which last by 

 this fact are proved to be later in age than the "Terrain Corallien" 

 of Northern France. 



Besides these Suabian and French forms, the Stramberg-strata of 

 Moravia have others, prevailing in localities somewhat more distant 

 from the shore-line of the Bohemian continent, and consequently 

 more adapted for living in deeper water. 



M. Suess concludes with noticing that, among a series of Ca- 

 rinthian fossils sent to him for the purpose of determination by 

 M. F. Von Rosthorn, he met with forms undoubtedly indicating the 

 presence of strata older than those of the Carboniferous period. 

 Their locality is at Kappel. The matrix, a light-grey, partly rose- 

 coloured limestone, is petrographically identical with the limestone 

 of the same locality, which has been separated by M. Lipoid from 

 the true Gailthal (Carboniferous) strata, under the denomination of 

 " Lower Gailthal Limestone." These organic remains are, the 

 pygidium of a large species of Bronteus, fragments of a Cephalopod, 

 and a Spirifer very similar to a species from the Silurian limestone 

 of Koniezerus, near Beraun (Bohemia). 



[Count M.] 



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