362 WHITE AND SCHUCHERT—CRETACEOUS SERIES OF GREENLAND. 
a Platanus, which seems to be P. heerii, in dark carbonaceous sandy 
shales at 1,370 feet above tide. At 1,640 feet above tide occasional fer- 
ruginous ironstone bands containing conifers, dicotyledons, and ferns 
ozcur, while an abundance of silicified wood and occasional erect stumps 
were found at and above this horizon. Owing to the dip, it seems prob- 
able that not more than 2,000 feet of clastic rocks are here exposed. 
Poorly preserved invertebrates occur at a number of levels in the red 
areas to the east of Patoot. Regarding these, Dr Stanton reports as fol- 
lows: 
“The most common species from Patoot is an echinoid that is aloubtiess the 
same species that de Loriol identified with Hemiaster humphreysianus M. and H., 
which occurs in the Fort Pierre beds. With this crushed and imperfect material, 
however, the identification is necessarily very doubtful, as neither generic nor 
specific features are sufficiently preserved. 
“With these echinoids there are an Avicula, probably undescribed, a Pinna (?), 
a Dentalium, and indeterminate fragments of.a crustacean. The Avicula is of a type 
common in the Upper Cretaceous, but the fossils can hardly be considered suffi- 
cient in themselves to decide whether the beds are Upper Cretaceous or more re- 
cent.” 
On one of the eastern spurs, at an altitude of 720 feet above tide, 
good fossil plants are also found in association with invertebrates. These 
have been identified by Dr F. H. Knowlton and may be regarded as 
typical of the Patoot flora : 
Arundo grénlandica Hr. AP. Macclintockia cretacea Hr. AP. 
Platanus newberryana Hr. P. Sapotacites hyperboreus Hr. P. 
Platanus affinis Lx.? AP. . Rhamnus brevifolius Al. Br. ert. 
Platanus sp. (Figured by Heer.) Gleichenia gieseckiana Hr. KAP. 
Quercus cuspidigera Hr. P. Gleichenia nordenskioldi Hr. K. 
Quercus johnstrupi Hr. P. Aspidium oerstedi Hy. AP. 
Quercus myrtillus Hr. P. « Aspidium meyeri Hr. ? Tert. 
Dewalquea insignis Hos. and Marck. AP. Aspidiwm (in fruit). 
Diospyros primeva Hr. AP. Aspidium? n.sp. 
Diospyros steenstrupi Hr. P. Sequoia concinna Hr. P. 
Viburnum multinervis Hr. P. 
Atanikerdluk.—Kast of Patoot the Cretaceous outcrops in the long talus 
slopes near Manik, and again between Kingitok and Kardlok. Good 
exposures are found near both the latter localities, that near Kardlok 
being near the shore and in contact with low irregular bluffs of pre-Cre- 
taceous or very early Cretaceous basalt. One of these irregular masses 
of basalt forms, at Atanikerdluk, a double hooked peninsula between 
300 and 400 feet in height, extending nearly a mile from the mainland. 
The terranes in this vicinity have been more thoroughly studied, both 
