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oi Cretaceous beds of Jamaica may be classed as a West 
an equivalent to the European Hippurite lime or to the 
uronien”” and Gosau deposit. 
os ji 
ean ca, in Trinidad (th n Fernando beds), as also in S 
olo m e regarded, too, as very probable that 
W : - : 
Rows a may be classed as equivalents to the lower or middle 
ne a sae of Europe (the lower “ caleaire grossier ” of Paris 
Anguilla, Anti ree 
whit a, Antigua, Barbados and Trinidad. In St. 
f € marl also seems to belong to the Miocene time. The Miocene 
an e Miocene time 
open channel existed over Panama to the acifie Ocean, and 
re that a connection with Europe existe in form of an archi- 
eae extending from Europe across the ocean to the West Indies. 
a aged indicated and developed by Messrs. Duncan, Sowerby, 
h nd Moore, seems very plausible, and it coinei i 
ee potnesia which Oswald Heer proposed to explain th 
it between the European Miocene and the still 
‘al North American flora. 
Pea Miocena fauna of the West Indies does not, however, offer 
ae close affinities with the Miocene fauna 0 North America. 
* Quart. Journ. Geol. Soc., vol. ix, 1853, p. 132, 
