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Sequoia fastigiata (Sternberg) Velenovsky 

 Sequoia reichenbachi (Geinitz) Heer 

 Sterculia krejcii Velenovsky 

 Zamites familiaris Corda 



The foregoing list includes eight forms peculiar to these beds, eight 

 Perucer species and five additional Cenomanian species ; one ranges up 

 into Teplitzer beds, and Sequoia reichenbachi occurs at numerous older 

 and younger horizons. 



The Malnitzer beds are marine deposits somewhat less fossiliferous 

 than the Weissenberger beds and with but one fossil plant, the wide- 

 ranging and maceration-resisting Sequoia reichenbachi. They correspond 

 to the Inoceramus brongniarti zone of the Saxon Turonian. 



The Teplitzer beds contain an extensive marine fauna of Middle 

 Turonian age, including 2 Beptilia, 39 Pisces, 13 Cephalopoda, 18 Gastro- 

 poda, 72 Pelecypoda, 6 Brachiopoda, 6 Bryozoa, 27 Crustacea, 9 Vermes, 

 10 Bchinodermata, 4 Anthozoa, 26 Porifera, and 96 Foraminifera. The 

 flora is restricted to the following species which are without special 

 significance : 



Abies minor Velenovsky 



Chondrites furcillatus Rcemer ' 



Chondrites mantelli Roemer ' 



Dacrydium densifolium Velenovsky 



Fueoides f dichotomus Fric ' 



Sequoia rnicrocarpa Velenovsky 



Sequoia reichenbachi (Geinitz) Heer 



The Iserschichten, whose stratigraphic position has occasioned con- 

 siderable disussion among continental geologists, are now believed to 

 represent a littoral sand phase, representing both the Malnitzer and the 

 Teplitzer horizons. A rather extensive marine fauna is recorded from 

 the Iser beds, but the plants are represented by the following four worth- 

 less algae-like remains : 



Fueoides cauliformis Fric 



Fueoides ? columnaris Fric 



Fueoides funiformis Fric 



Fueoides ? strangulatus Fric 



1 Doubtful algae-like remains. 



