UNIVERSITY OP CALIFORNIA 



Bulletin of the Department of Geology 



Vol. 2, No. 3, pp. 101-108. ANDREW C. I.AWSON, Editor 



NOTE 



ON TWO TERTIARY FAUNAS 

 FROM THE 



ROCKS OF Tllli SOUTHERN COAST OF VANCOUVER ISLAND 



BY 



J. C. MERRIAM. 



CONTENTS. 



Introductory Remarks ioi 



Carmanah Point 102 



Occurrence of Fossils 102 



List of Species 103 



Correlation .. . 104 



Sooke District 105 



Table of Sooke Fauna 105 



Age and Relationship of Fauna 106 



INTRODUCTORY REMARKS. 



The occurrence of fossiliferous horizons of marine Tertiary on 

 the coast of Vancouver Island having received only the briefest 

 mention in geological literature, the following description of some 

 interesting collections recently made on the southern coast of the 

 island by Dr. C. F. Newcombe, of Victoria, is offered as a contri- 

 bution to our knowledge of the geology and palaeontology of this 

 region. 



During the years 1894 and '95 several collections of marine 

 Tertiary shells from Vancouver Island were forwarded to the writer 



