CORRF.LATION OF THE UPPER TRIAS. 
Ill 
very equally in both districts. The correlation of the noric beda 
underlying the Dachsteinkalk has been based on stratigrapliical 
evidence by A. v. Kral¥t. The fauna is too indifferent, espe- 
cially in Painkhaud either to contradict or to support this 
evidence. 
A. V. Krafft correlated the quartzite series, with Spi'ru/era nmniensis 
of Spiti with the corresponding series in Painkhanda, the Monotis beds 
of Mani and Lilang with the main layer of Anodontophora Griesbachi 
in tlie Bambanag cliff, where Monotis salinaria is, however, absent, 
the coral limestone of Spiti with the dolomitic limestone containing 
Sfiriferina Griesbachi in Painkhanda. Those three rock-groups are 
rather poor in fossils and have a considerable number of faunistic 
elements in common. Cephalopoda are extremely rare. Two species 
of Trachijpleuraspidit.es from the Monotis beds of Mani and a fragment 
of Sagenifes from the main layer of Anodontophora Griesbachi of the 
Bambanag cliff afford no clue to the geological age of those beds. 
The only species of stratigraphical importance is Monotis salinaria 
Schloth.. which is also known to us from the Pamir and from the 
Pishin district, Baluchistan. 
The cephalopod-bearing beds, which form the lower division of the 
noric stage, exhibit a different development in Painkhanda and Spiti- 
In Painkhanda two cephalopod horizons occur, the nodular limestone with 
Proclydonautilus Griesbachi and the Halorites limestone. In Spiti one 
single horizon only, the Juvavites beds, corresponds to them. 
The nodular limestone with Proclydonautilus Griesbachi is very poor 
in fossils, but among those fossils two species of Par a juvavites, and 
one species of Pinacoceras, nearly allied to P. imperator, have been 
described by E. v. Mojsisovics, all of them types with decidedly noric 
affinities. A correlation of this nodular limestone with the dolomitic 
limestone, following above the Tropites beds of Spiti, is consequently 
impossible. The nodular limestone with Proclydonautilus Griesbachi 
has been considered by E. v. Mojsisovics as a horizon independent from 
the Halorites limestone both stratigraphically and faunistically, but 
the arguments put forward by this learned author are not convincing. 
Regarding the great deficiency of fossil materials from the nodular 
limestone with Proclydonautilus Griesbachi, it cannot be decided 
whether the faunas of this horizon and of the overlying Halorites beds 
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