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already stated, more recent work in 1898 and 1899 had proved that 
this was not the case in Spiti, but that beds including the ladinic 
stage were largely developed. Subsequently Dr. von Krafft, when 
Ladinic stage of Studying the sections of the Kumaon Himalayas, 
Europe represented in ^-ame to the conclusion that the same stage was 
Painkhanda. . 
represented also in the Shalshal cliff, but that the 
beds including it were much thinner, being only ^5 feet thick as 
against 300 feet in Spiti In both areas it is overlain by beds 
containing fossils found in the carnic stage of Europe. In Spiti these 
beds fall into the following subdivisions : — 
Tropites 
beds 
Grey shales 
Halobia beds 
6. Dolomitic limestone ...... 
5. Dark, splintery limestone, with alternations of grey, 
shaly limestone and calcareous shale, with 
Parajuvavites, sp. 
4. Nodular limestone and grey shale, with 
Clydnnautilus griesbachi, Mojs. 
Tropites of. subbullatus, v. Hauer. 
„ cf. discobullatus, Mojs. 
Species of Juvavites and Sagenites. 
3. Dark, splintery limestone, shaly limestone and 
calcareous shale ...... 
300 ft. 
200 ft. 
15 ft. 
400 ft. 
2. Soft, pale grey, calcareous shales, with limestone 
bands : containing brachiopods above and j 
ammonites below ■ . , . . 535 ft. 
1. Hard, dark, splintery limestone, with flaggy and 
shaly bands with Halobia sp., and Arcestes sp. . 
140 ft. 
Halobia limestone. 
1 he lowest of the above subdivisions is a continuation of the black 
Daonella limestone, but owing to the apparent 
absence of Daonella lommeli in the upper beds 
and to the presence of Halobi3e either identical with, or very nearly 
* General Report, G. S. I., 1900-01, p. 27. 
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