1867.] TATE— SOUTH-AFEICAN FOSSILS, 143 



3. The Beaufort Beds (Beaufort "West and Fort Beanfort are 

 both on this band). Greenish laminated sandstone, with shale, cal- 

 careous bands*, and numerons hard nodular masses often containing 

 Dieynodont remains f. Fossil wood is common ; and Dr. Gray found 

 fossil Ferns near Cradock. The " Fort-Beaufort Grit," containing 

 Glossopteris, Paloeoniscus (?), Oudenodon Bainii, Owen, and Oud, 



j)rognathus, Owen, is a band of coarse sandstone towards the base of 

 this zone. Small bivalves also have been found in zone "No. 3, at 

 Manzalan (on the Kat Eiver), and near Graaf Eeinet "l ; and Glos- 

 sopteris and Dictyopteris come from Bloemkop, near the same place. 

 A peculiar Fern (Bubidgea Mackayi, see above, p. 141 ) has been 

 found in this zone by Mr, M'Kay near the sea-level at East London 

 (Buffalo Eiver Mouth). Dieynodont remains are numerous in 

 ''InTo. 3," near Fort Beaufort and the Mankazan Post; and from 

 Blinkwater, in the same district, Mr. Bain got the remains of a 

 large Eeptile with 60 fluted and serrated teeth (his "Blinkwater 

 Monster" §). His " Gamkasaurus " (an immense reptile, as yet 

 undescribed) also belongs to this zone in Beaufort West ; also his 

 " Asterophyllites?" and " Lycopodium ?" of the Eoggeveld|!. Di- 

 cynodon lacerticeps, 0., D. strigiceps, 0., D. Bainii, 0., and D. tigri- 

 ceps, 0., came from the same set of beds, at various localities, east 

 and west ; and from the higher and more northern portion of the 

 zone have been obtained : — Palceoniscus (Spitzkop and Styl Krantz) 

 and other Fish-remains (Brak Eiver) ; a Eeptile having the cha- 

 racters of the "Blinkwater Monster"^, but smaller (Sneeubergen) ; 

 Micropholis Stowii, Huxley, Dicynodon dedivis, 0., D. latirostris, 0., 

 D. verticalis, 0., Oudenodon Orayii, 0., Galesaurus jolaniceps, 0., 

 Cynochampsa laniarius, 0., and a portion of an Encrinital Stem** 

 from the Ehenosterberg ; and Dicynodon Murrayii, Huxley, still 

 further north, near Colesberg. The buff-coloured, soft, stratified 

 sandstone of the Great Winterberg is described as equivalent to tho 

 Sneeuberg beds, as well as the Tarka beds with pisolitic iron-ore (?) 

 and Dicynodons. Possibly, however, the higher portions of the 

 series in the Sneeuberg and Winterberg Heights may be outliers, 

 belonging to the next or Stormberg beds ; if so, the Palceoniscus of 

 Styl Krantz, and the Eeptile with serrated teeth from the Sneeuberg, 

 belong to the next series, 



4. The /Stormberg Beds (Huxley ff), or the white and yellowish 

 sandstones, with grey and reddish shales, of the Stormberg and of 



^- See Mr. Stow on the Ehenosterberg, Quart. Journ. Geol. Soc. vol. xv. p. 194. 



t Some at least of these nodular masses are penetrated by greenstone, nume- 

 rous dykes and beds of which abound throughout the " Karoo Series." 



I Iridincs, &c., Transact. Geol. Soc. 2nd ser. vol, vii. p. 225. 



§ Eastern Prov. Monthly Mag. vol. i. pp. 9-11; Newspaper Letter (June 1861); 

 and Geol. Trans. 2nd ser. vol. vii. p. 56. 



I Trans. Geol. Soc. 2nd ser. vol. vii. p. 188 & p. 227. 



% Letter in Newspaper (Fort-Beaufort Advocate, June 1861). 



** If not a derived fossil, washed in from the Devonian beds, this is inimical 

 to the supposed lacustrine origin of the Karoo beds. 



tt Quart. Journ. Geol. Soc. vol. xxiii. p. 5. [I have lately found that Mr. 

 Wyley has also used the same name. July. — T. E. J.] 



