LOWER TRIAS : PAINKHANDA. 
considered by him as a passage bed, whereas all the beds of dark lime- 
stone and shale following above, up to the earthy limestone with Rhyn- 
clionella Griesbachi Bittn., amounting to 51 feet in thickness, were assigned 
to the Lower Trias. 
In 1892 a second fossiliferous horizon was discovered by Diener in 
the upper division of this rock group, not far below the lower limit of the 
earthy limestone with Rhynchonella Griesbachi. In l!JOO F. Noetling dis- 
covered a third fossiliferous bed in the lower division of the Lower Trias 
about 21 feet above the top of the Kuling (Productus) shales. 
Fig. 1 — Detailed, sections through the Lower Trias near Liking (left) and of the 
Shalshal cliff (right). 
Figures corresponding to the text on pp. 16 and 22. 
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