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The rocks in the neighbourhood of Dankhar are therefore of such 
a character, that the sandstones with Werfen types cannot have 
possibly come from there. Moreover no village of the name Balamsali 
is known. 
A. v. Krafft thinks that on the labels accompanying the specimens 
collected by the brothers Sclilagintweit, the localities have been confused. 
In this opinion he is supported by the fact that not infrequently the 
localities of specimens collected by those travellers are not known 
exactly, and that in one other instance localities must needs have been 
confused. 
This is the case of a specimen of Ceratites Voiti 0pp. (coll. Schla- 
gintweit) described by Diener (Muschelkalk Cephalopoda, 1. c, p. 9), 
which was said to have come from the Kunzum pass in Spiti. Both H. 
Hayden and A. v. Krafft have traversed the Kunzum pass (leading 
from Losar in the Spiti valley to the Chandra valley), and have found 
it built up chiefly of Haimantas. The nearest locality, where Muschel- 
kalk occurs, is situated about ten miles to the N.E. of the Kunzum pass, 
on the left bank of the Spiti river. Thus there can be hardly any 
room for doubt that the brothers Schlagintweit collected their fossils 
of Werfen facies somewhere else, far away from Dankhar in Spiti. 
Probably those fossils may have come from a layer similar to that in 
which Myophoria sp. ind. ex. aff. ovatce was found by Stoliczka. 
I feel, however, obliged to remark that species belonging to the 
group of Myophoria ovata Goldf . are not restricted to the Alpine Werfen 
beds, but range also into the Muschelkalk, and that there is, conse- 
quently, no convincing proof of the Lower Triassic age of the beds 
discovered by Stoliczka in the valley of the Dras river. 
F. Noetling ^ also claims the discovery of Lower Triassic beds in 
Kashmir. "Near Pastuni, three days' march from Srinagar " — he 
writes — "I collected a faunula of Cephalopoda in a hard dark blue 
limestone. They have not yet' been examined, but from a prehminary 
comparison with other Himalayan faunae it was soon evident that they 
could neither represent Muschelkalk nor Upper Trias. There exists great 
probability of their Lower Triassic age. We may, perhaps, consider 
them as an equivalent of the Hedenstroemia beds." 
1 F. Noetling : Asiatischi Trias, Lethcea mesozoica, I. c, p. 172. 
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