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phalosia, Aulosteges, Richthofenia, Lyttonia, Waageno- 

 ceras, Medlicottia with Agathiceras and Gastrioceras are 

 represented. 



(e) Carnic Alps, Tyrol. — Schellwien anil Kossmet have 

 preliminarily described 1 a highly important fauna from the 

 Bellerophon limestone of the Carnic Alps, including Rich- 

 thofenia aff. laivrenciana, Productus abichi, Marginifera 

 ovalis, Lonsdalela indica. As these beds pass up conform- 

 ably into the Trias, they are high in the Permian like the 

 Guadalupian and Valle del Sosio beds, and they suggest a 

 Permian age for the whole of the Productus Limestone of 

 the Salt Range of India. 



Summary. 

 The following appear to be salient features in the above 

 observations: — 



1. In the Lower Hunter District, and thence for a total 

 distance of over 200 miles northerly, fluvio-glacial con- 

 glomerates, tillites and contemporaneously contorted 

 44 varve" shales are developed in a system of rocks for which 

 we propose the term Kuttung Series. The greater part of 

 these strata contains a flora considered by Dr, A. B. Walkom 

 to be mostly low down in the Middle Carboniferous, but 

 possibly ranging into the base of the Upper Carboniferous. 



2. The dominant fossil in this series is Rhacopteris, 

 (aneimites). 



3. The distinctly glacial members of this series are 

 associated with extraordinarily massive conglomerates, 

 coarse to line tuffs of great thickness and extent and con- 

 temporaneous lavas (hypersthene andesites, rhyolites, 

 keratophyres, etc.). One of us (C. A. Sussmilch) estimates 

 the thickness of the Kuttung Series of the Lower Hunter 

 at approximately 7000 feet, while Professor W. N. Benson, 



x Palseontographica Vol. 39, pp. 1 et s>q., and ibid., Vol.41-, pp. 237 et sefq. 



