306 The Upper Cretaceous Floras of the World 



to regard them as representing the sedimentation in this region from the 

 upper Turonian (Angoumanian) to the upper Senonian (Maestrichtian) 

 (De Lapparent, Trade, ed. 5, p. 1.479, i!>0(i ; Uaug, Trade, p. 1320, 1 * ) 1 1 ) 

 or from the lower Emscherian (Coniacian) to the upper Aturian (Mae- 

 strichtian) (Kayser, Formationskunde, ed. 5, p. 548, 1913). 



Fossil plants have been described from various outcrops, Linger,' as 

 early as 1867, having published an account of a small florule from the 

 marls of Ste. Wolfgang in upper Austria, and from the lignites of Neue 

 Welt, 2 near Wiener Neustadt in lower Austria. Schenk 3 in 1875 described 

 several additional forms from the Tyrol (Brandenberg near Brixlegg) ; 

 Ettingshausen " described three species of Pandanus from Griinbach, 

 Muthmannsdorf and Dreistatten in lower Austria ; and more recently 

 Krasser 4 has published a preliminary announcement of a rich flora col- 

 lected by Bogenhofer at Griinbach (Neue Welt) in lower Austria. These 

 plant-bearing beds, while their contained flora is relatively small, are 

 clearly not older than the Angoumanian nor younger than the Santonian 

 and may be regarded lor the present purpose as of Coniacian age. 



The following is a list of the forms recorded in this literature from 

 the Gosau beds : 



Carpolites ohlongus Gceppert 



Cunninghamites dubius Sternberg 6 



Cyparissidium cretaceum Schenk 



Cyparissidium suessii Schenk 



Equisetum. heerii Schenk 



Ficus protogwa Heer 



Hymenophyllites hetcrophyllus Unger " 



Hymenophyllites m.acrophyllus Gceppert 



1 Unger, Kreidepflanzen aus Osterreich. Sitz. k. Akad. Wiss. Wien, Bd. 55, 

 Ab. i, pp. 642-654, pi, i. ii, 1867. 



2 Not to be confounded with the celebrated Keuper plant-beds at Neue Welt 

 in Switzerland. 



3 Schenk, Ueber einige Pflanzenreste aus der Gosauformation Nordtirols. 

 Palaontographica, Bd. xxiii, Lief 4, pp. 164-171, pi. xxviii, fig. 14, pi. xxix, 1875. 



15 Ettingshausen, liber fossile Pandaneen, Sitz. k. Akad. Wiss. Wien. Bd. viii, 

 1852, pp. 493-496, pis. i-iv. 



4 Krasser, Ueber die fossile Kreideflora von Griinbach in Niederosterreich. 

 Anzeiger k. Akad. Wiss. Wien, Bd. xliii, Jahrg. 1906, Nr. 3, pp. 41-43. 



5 This old determination of a Keuper species by Unger is entirely erroneous. 

 It may represent Sequoia heterophylla Velenovsky. 



'• This is referred to Pccopteris by Schimper. 



