188 The Upper Cretaceous Floras of the World 



the flora is not so unique nor necessarily as old as it was considered by 

 Heer. The Kome flora was enumerated by the writer in 1911. 



The ripple-marked sandstone at Ekorgfat and the coal deposits indicate 

 continental conditions of deposition for the bulk of the materials, and 

 suggest the Kootenai formation of western North America. 



C. Giesecke, who lived in west Greenland from 1806 to 1813, and whose 

 journal has recently been republished (1910) in " Meddelelser om Gron- 

 land," was the first to discover the Kome plants as well as those on the 

 east coast of Disko Island. 



The Atane Series 



The Upper Cretaceous sediments of the Atane and Patoot series attain 

 a thickness of at least 1300 feet. Along the South shore of the Nugsuak 

 peninsula they rest on a brecciated pre-Cretaceous basalt. At Ata, the 

 type locality of the Atane series, they consist of buff sandstones inter- 

 bedded with more or less laminated and carbonaceous, often " burnt " 

 shales carrying fossil plants and a few marine invertebrates. Following 

 is a list of the fossil plants recorded from the Atane series : 



Acer edentatum Heer 



Acerates arctica Heer 



Alisma f reticulata Heer 



Anacardites omissus Heer 



Andromeda parlatorii Heer 



Andromeda pfaffiana Heer 



Apeibopsis thomseniana Heer 



Aralia gronlandica Heer 



Aralia ravniana Heer 



Artocarpus dicksoni Nathorst 



Arundo gronlandica Heer 



Aspidium Secundum Heer 



Aspidium jenseni Heer 



Aspidium schouwii Heer 



Asplenium dicksonianum Heer 



Asplenium forsteri Debey and Ettingshausen 



Asplenium nordstromi Heer 



Baiera incurvata Heer 



Baiera leptopoda Heer 



Baiera sagittata Heer 



Carpolithus scrobiculatus Heer 



