DIENER : TBIAS Ol' THE HIMALAYAS. 
Monophylliles Confucii Dien. 
„ Pradyumna Dien. 
„ Pitamaha Dien. 
Hara Dien. 
., Kingi Dien. 
Procladiscites Yasoda Dien. 
Xenaspis Middlemissii Dien. 
Japonites Ugra Dien.^ 
Sturia mongoUca Dien. 
To the same Triassic horizon as the Middlemiss crag two more exotic 
blocks in the Chitichun region must be assigned. One of them is 
situated near the low pass west of the peak Chitichun No. I, on the route 
from the Kiogarh Chaldu Pass to Chitichun E. G., and the second north 
of LochambelkichakE. G., near the pass which leads into the valley of 
the Chaldu river. Both of them have yielded lumachelloe of Xenaspis 
and MonophyllUes. 
The presence of this horizon in the Balchdhura district is doubtful. 
Some badly preserved ammonites {Procladiscites cf. Yasoda Dien.?) in a 
loose block point to the fauna of the Middlemiss crag, according to 
A. V. Krafft. 
•Judging from its zoological character, the fauna ol the Middlemiss 
crag was correlated with the Muschelkalk by Diener in 1895. He 
considered this limestone to form a lower division of the Indian 
Muschelkalk than the beds with PtycJiites rugifer and Ceratites Thuillien 
in the sections of the Bambanag and Shalshal cliffs, the predominating 
types showing all a somewhat lower character of development than in 
the geologically oldest congeneric forms from the Upper Himalayan or 
Alpine Muschelkalk. 
When this fauna was examined by Diener in 1895, the Lower 
Muschelkalk age of the isolated Middlemiss crag had to be decided by 
its fossil contents only. This correlation was afterwards fully confirmed 
by A. v. KrafEt's discovery of the fauna of the Middlemiss crag in the 
zone of Spiriferina Stracheyi and Keyserlingites Dieneri in the normal 
1 Referred to Gymnites originally. It has been demonstrated by E. v. Mojsiso- 
vics (Ceplial. dci- Hallstaetter Kalke, Ai)handl. K. K. Geol. RdchsansL, VI 2, Sup- 
plem., p. 323), that it combines the shape and sculptm'e of Xewisqns with the 
sutures of Japonites and should be inchidcd in the latter genus. 
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