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720 General Notes. [July, 
Whiteaves of the fossils of the coal-bearing Cretaceous deposits 
of the Queen Charlotte islands. From the upper shales the only 
species described is /uoceramus problematicus. From the coarse 
conglomerate below the guard of a belemnite is the only fossil yet 
obtained, but from the lower shales and sandstones nineteen Ceph- 
alopoda and seven Gasteropoda, besides Lamellibranchs, are 
known. The majority of the species are new. n the Trans- 
actions of the Royal Society of Canada, Mr. Whiteaves describes 
some fossils from the Lower Cretaceous rocks of British Colum- 
bia. Though the equivalents of the Upper Cretaceous of Europe 
have been recognized over a vast extent of country in North 
America, the Lower Cretaceous, with the possible exceptions of 
the Dakota group and the Shasta group, has only been recognize 
during the last seven years by the researches of Dr. Dawson in 
British Columbia. It is now believed that the equivalents of each 
of the sub-divisions of the Middle Cretaceous, as well as of the 
“Neocomien superieur,” Lower Greensand, or upper sub-division 
of the Lower Cretaceous have now been found there. From this 
formation Mr. Whiteaves enumerates thirteen species of mollusks, 
three of which he describes as new. 
Furassic—J. Wohlgemuth (Soc. des Sciences de Nancy), pub- 
lishes the results of his researches among the middle Jarassi¢ 
strata to the east of the Paris basin, including the Bathoniaa, 
Callorian, Oxfordian, Corallian and Astartian strata. Both upper 
and lower Oxfordian are recognized. 
which, with Loven, he regards as synonymous with Echiot G 
conicus Breynius. The species is not a toothed echinid, as it ai 
usually been regarded; it has no auricles; the anus 15 not 
tirely infra-marginal; and there is no fifth genital plate in 
apical system. 
Laramie—M. Neumayr (Neu. Jahrb. fur Min. Geol. und Pal, 
Stuttgart 1884) notes the parallel position occupied by the of 
mie group in Northwest America and the Inter-trappea? 
the Deccan in Hindostan. Both are placed between th yi na Ï 
ceous and the Eocene, and the resemblance of the fossil fau 
well brought out in the subjoined lists : ; 
NAGPOOR. LARAMIE. 
Physa prinsepi Ph..copei 
Se y= var, elongata Ph. qisjuncta | 
Acella attenuata Ad. haldemanni — 
Paludina virapai Hydrob. anthonyt 
Unio carteri Unio Bonionotus 
Corbicula ingens, Corb. cleburnt 
—The Paleontological Hand-book of eps 
ser, 1883, contains a description of the fossil mamm l 
of Punit 
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