300 The Upper Cretaceous Floras of the World 



the Bohemian flora and have all been described in papers devoted to the 

 latter flora they are included with them in this review. Twenty-two of 

 these plants are peculiar to this horizon in this area and two additional are 

 confined to the Emscherian of Germany. Six are common to the Perucer 

 beds, one additional to the Cenomanian of other areas, and one additional 

 is common to the Teplitzer beds. The plants represent 2 supposed Algae, 

 4 Filices, 1 Conifer, 1 Monocotyledon, and 25 Dietotyledona?. 



Moravia 



The great Upper Cretaceous area of northern Bohemia extends south- 

 eastward into Moravia, where it is represented northward from Briinn 

 and not far from the Bohemian border by limited areas of both the Quader 

 and Planer horizons. The two most celebrated localities are the plant- 

 bearing beds at Kunstadt, about 22 miles north of Briinn, and the 

 sandstone quarries in the Moletein valley near Mahr. Alstadt about 

 40^ miles northwest of Olmiitz. Reuss * in his extended discussion of the 

 geology of Moravia mentions (p. 740) several species of Moletein plants 

 which had been determined by Ettingshausen. In the Moletein valley the 

 fine-grained, irregularly bedded plant-bearing sandstone with glauconitic 

 pockets grades upward into greensands with occasional marine molluscs. 

 Elsewhere in the neighborhood the sand is replaced by dark clays and 

 lignite beds. These carbonaceous clays are said to be plant-bearing, 

 in fact Glocker (E. F.), at the Tubingen meeting of German Xaturaiists 

 and Physicians in 1853, described Cupressites acrophyllus from these 

 latter layers. However, the bulk of the collected material comes from the 

 basal sandstone. Glocker collected much material in the Moletein valley 

 which he presented to the museums at Tubingen and Stuttgart, and at the 

 suggestion of Professors Quenstedt and Fraas these were submitted to 

 Professor Heer ' who made an elaborate study of the Moletein flora. His 

 paper, published in 1869, described and figured eighteen different species, 



1 Reuss, A. E., Beitrage zur geognostischen Kenntniss Mahrens. Jahrb. k. 

 k. geol. Reichs. 5 Jahrg. 1854, pp. 659-765. (Upper Cretaceous, pp. 699-743.) 



2 Heer, Beitrage zur Kreide-flora. 1. Flora von Moletein in Mahren. Neue 

 Denks. Schw. Gesel. Bd. xxiii, mem 2, 1869, pp. 1-24, pi. i-xi. 



