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The brachiopod-bearing limestones with Spiriferina Griesbachi 
gradually pass at their base into black calcareous shales, with dark 
limestone bands intercalated between them. One of those limestone 
bands, situated about 180 feet below the lower limit of the beds with 
Spiriferina Griesbachi, contains the richest fauna of noric age, which has 
as yet been discovered in the Himalayas. This is Diener's " Halorites 
limestone " of the Bambanag section. 
The fossiliferous horizon of the Halorites beds was traced by Diener, 
Griesbach and Middlemiss from Lauka encamping ground and the Jandi 
pass in Johar to the Shalshal cliff in Painkhanda, but nowhere was there 
found a section which, for abundance of Cephalopoda could be com- 
pared with that of the Bambanag cliff. The rich fauna collected by the 
expedition in 1892 was described by E. v. Mojsisovics.^ Very extensive 
collections obtained by A. v. Krafft in 1900 were examined by C. 
Diener.- 
The following Cephalopoda have been 
determined specifically by 
those two authors : — 
Halorites Sapphonis Mojs. 
procyon Mojs. 
„ Charaxi Mojs. 
„ Phaonis Mojs. 
„ Alcaci Mojs. 
Trotter i Dien. 
„ alternans Dien. 
Anatomites sp. ind. ex. aff. scissi 
Mojs. 
Parajuvavites Blanfordi Mojs. 
„ laukanus Mojs. 
Sternbergi Mojs. 
„ Feistmanteli Griesb. 
Jacquini Mojs. 
„ Tyndalli Mojs. 
„ Renardi Mojs. 
„ Ludolfi Mojs. 
1 E. V. Mojsisovics, Himalayan Foss., Palceont. Ind., ser. XV, Vol. Ill, Pt. 1, 
p. 132. 
2 C. Diener, Note on some fossils from the Halorites limestone of the Bamba- 
nag cM, Records, Geol. Surv. of India, Vol. XXXIV, 1906, p. 1. 
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