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CHAPTER VI. 



Lower Carboniferous. 



Frech^' maintained the development of the Lower Carboniferous, with 

 faunas quite similar to those of the European Lower Carboniferous, in northern 

 as well as southern China, and at the same time believed Lower Carboniferous 

 age of certain coal bearing series of China. The palaeontological evidences 

 by which his view is sustained are as follows : — 



1. Po-shan,"' Shan-tung ; limestones, in alternation with coal seams, 

 contain 



Spirifcr dii/^/ic/costii Phill. 

 S. bisH leaf lis Sow. 

 OrtJiotlictlus crcnistria Phill. 

 Froduc tus scmircticulatus Flemm. 

 P. punctaliis Sow. 

 F. hianholdti d'Ori;. 

 F. sublacvis de Kon. 

 F. long-is/^iims Sow . 

 F. granulosus Phill. 

 BclleropJion hhtlcus S av. 

 Loxoncuia %valciodorciicc de Kcjn. 

 MacrocJiciliis cf. intermedins de Kon. 

 Fhyuiatifer pugilis Phii.l. 

 Naticopsis cfr. giobuliua de Kox. 

 OrtJiocerai sp. 

 Crinoid stems. 



2. Hei-shan,"' Shan-tung •. limestones in alternation with coal seams, contain 

 Spirifer duplicicosta Phill. 



bisnleatus Sou . 

 Ortliotheies crenistrio Phill. 



:) Richthopen's China, vol. V.. pp. 60-91. 

 2) Po-shan = ff [Ij 

 3' Hei-shan = ^[lj 



