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the uppermost stage in the Sirinur series, which, with the over- 

 lying Siwalik series, make up the Sub-Himalayan system. The 

 Kasauli stage is correlated with the Murree beds further to the 

 north-west by fossil plants (0. Feistmantel : Rec. Geol. Surv. Ind., 

 XV, 51, 1882), a connecting link occurring in plant-bearing beds 

 in the Kavi valley (H. B. Medlicott : Rec. Geol. Surv. Ind., IX, 

 52, 1876). R. D. Oldham (unpublished notes) regarded the Kasauli 

 and associated Dagshai beds to be local variations of the same 

 stage. G. E. Pilgrim (Rec. Geol. Surv. Ind., XL, 188, 1910) 

 shows that the Murree beds are of about Burdigalian and Hel- 

 vetian age, thus bringing the stage distinctly into the Miocene, 

 as the Murree beds are above the Aqnitanian Kuldanas (q. v.). 

 At the same time the latter author (Rec. Geol. Surv., Ind.. 

 XLI, 83, 1911-12) considers that the Kasauli succeeds the 

 Dagshai in time and represents only the upper portion of the 

 Murree. 



Katha beds. — Name given by W. Waagen (Pal. Ind., Ser. XIII, Vol. 

 IV, Part 2, 241, 1891) to the lower division of the Middle Pro- 

 ductus Limestone of the Punjab Salt Range. Katha village and 

 fort (32° 31' ; 72° 30') are on the southern edge of the range in 

 the Shahpur district. 



Katrol group. — Name used by F. Stoliczka (MS. report) for one of the 

 upper divisions of the Jurassic of Cutch (Kachh) occurring above 

 the Chari beds. W. Waagen (Pal. Ind. Ser. IX, Vol. 1) gives the 

 following classification : — 



2. Katrol beds proper. Zone of Perisphinc- ~\ 



Sandstones and shales tes mutabilis. f • 



with Phylloceras pty- Zone of Oppelia tenia- f immer o 



choicus, Oppelia trachy- lobatus. ) 



notu-s, Perisphinctes tor- 



quaius, P. potiingeri, 



etc. 

 1. Kantkot sandstones. Red ?Zone of Pelloceras I 



and yellow ferruginous bimammatus. I Tjpp er Oxford 



sandstones with ?Zone of Pelloceras ( 



Siephanocerao maya, transversarius. ) 



Aspi'loceras perarrnatus, 



etc. 



Katrol (23° 12' ; 69° 50°') is a small village in Cutch. 



Katlra shales.— H. J. Carter's middle division of his " Oolitic series " 

 (q. v.) named from their occurrence at Kattra ghat (Geol. Papers, 



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