342 ME. A. E. WYNN^E Ol!l A FOSSILIFEKOFS PEBBLE-BAND 



be valuable. We had no doubt that part of the group, but not at 

 this locality, contained Terehratula Flemingi, Davidson, and to this 

 Dr. Waagen now adds Cardita Beaumonti, another Cretaceous form, 

 while Dr. Warth informs me he has recently obtained, at its upper- 

 most limits, " Turtle, 3 feet in length," fish-teeth (" Lamna, sp., 

 Otodus, sp., Hemipristis, sp., Capitodus, sp."), '■^Belemnites and shells." 

 Both Dr. T. Oldham and myself had previously observed fossils at this 

 horizon in the eastern part of the Range, but they were difficult to 

 extract and, so far as I know, have never been determined. I found 

 them at coal-localities in the neighbourhood of Pid, and to the 

 westward in yellowish fine-grained siliceous and slightly ferruginous 

 beds, of blue colour internally. 



The nearest horizon below the " Olive Group" (in the eastern part) 

 of the Salt Range from which fossils had previously been procured 

 was amongst the " Magnesian Sandstone " beds of Chel Hill, a 

 narrow ridge faulted on both sides. I have doubtfully suggested 

 that the beds containing these fossils may be in the lower part of 

 the group *, but I had ascended the flank of the hill for some 

 distance before I found them. Here in some dark clunchy shales 

 and flags, associated with soft micaceous, dark and pale grey, and 

 dull reddish sandstones, I obtained a few small and indefinite plant- 

 fragments, and small broken sharks' teeth, together with a larger 

 tooth, since described with qualifying remarks as Sigmodus duhius, 

 Waag., n. sp. f. There may be considerable doubt as to the exact 

 place of these fossils in the group succeeding the "■ Obolus-heds,^' 

 which were formerly fixed by Drs. Oldham and Stoliczka as not 

 newer than Silurian J. 



This was the state of things when Dr. Warth's discovery of a 

 Conularia-contmnmg layer was made, and his fossils were forwarded 

 to Europe to Dr. Waagen, who now refers them to the Carboniferous 

 period §, a determination which it is entirely beyond my object to 

 discuss ; but Dr. AVaageu and Mr. Medlicott both state || that these 

 lately found fossils occur in concretions, in situ, chiefly, it would 

 seem, on other grounds than their own observation. 



* Salt-Eauge Eeport, Mem. Gr. S. Ind. vol. xiv. p. 145. 



t Pal. Ind. ser. xiii. 1, i. pp. 9, 11. 



I As two or more thick groups of rocks intervene between the SiffJuodtts-layers 

 and the Comdaria-hand, it is much to be regretted that the locality was not 

 more closelj' explored. At the time the prospect of finding fossils in these 

 beds was not so hopeless as it afterwards proved. All that I obtained were 

 from the same spot and almost the same bed : the material general^ became 

 friable when kept, and the remains were so difficult to preserve that when I 

 saw them again after a long interval in Calcutta, most of those collected had 

 disappeared. Should further exploration of Chel Hill be made, I should not 

 feel surprised to learn that the dark-coloured beds with these fossils are really 

 nearer the upper portion of the group than I supposed. The ridge is not very 

 far from the area within which Dr. Warth's discovery was made, and the 

 "Olive-bed" conglomerates, with their metamorphic boulders in an almost 

 trappean mud-like base, are present along its south-eastern flank. 



§ Eec. G-. S. Ind. vol. xix. pt. 1. pp. 2, 29. 



il Loc. cit. pp. 2, 29. 



