INDIAN TRIASSIC I'ROVINCE. 
been compared to Columbites by Mansuy, points to a close faunistic 
atHnity with the Lower Trias of Idaho and California. Tlie determina- 
tion of Noriles, which was quoted by Douville ' in l89ti, is rather 
doubtful. 
The presence of Muschelkalk is very uncertain. It might be inferred 
from a badly preserved specimen of GeratUes, recalling C. Aimvata Dien. 
The fauna of the carnic stage is represented by the following 
species : — 
Lima cf. subpunctata D'Orb. 
Pecten cf. tuhulifer Muenst. 
Hoferia cf. auplicata Muenst. 
Hoernesia cf. Joannis Austrioe Klipst. 
Paloeoneilo cf. Faba Wism. 
Myophoria cf. inaequi costata Klipst. 
,, Goldfussi Alb. 
The noric stage is indicated by Clionites cf. Salteri Mojs., by some 
fragments of ammonites, which have been compared to Paratibetites 
Mojs. by Mansuy, by a species of Spiriferina, which is perhaps nearly 
allied to Sp. Griesbachi Bittn., and by a cast of a bivalve resembling 
Anodontophora Griesbachi Bittn. 
The development of the carnic stage in the vicinity of Lang- son 
differs considerably from that in the Himalayas. It exhibits a closer 
affinity with the homotaxial Triassic beds in south-eastern China, as 
represented by the faunae of Chungtien (Loczy)^, Kwechou (Koken)'^ 
and A-mi-chu (Mansuy). 
The Triassic fauna discovered by L. von Loczy north of the great 
Buddhist temple of Chungtien in the valley of the Kingcha-Kiang, 
is imbedded in argillaceous shales, marls and sandstones. Its affinity 
with the German Muschelkalk has been overestimated. Myopiioria 
eleqans Dunk, is the only identical species. All the remaining forms 
point to a ladinic or carnic age, especially to the fauna of St. Cassian. 
This is also the age of the fauna of Kwei-chou, according to Koken. 
1 H. Douville, Bull. Soc. Geol. tie Ftanre, 3 .ser. I, XXIV, p. 454. 
- Die wi.ssenschaftliehen Ergebni.sse der Reise des f4rafen Be!a Szechenyi ic 
Ostasien 1877-1880, Wien 1893, I, p. 738 III, p. 208. 
E. Koken : Uber triadsiche Bersteinerungen aus China, Neues Jahrb. j. Min. 
etc., 1900, I, pp. 18G-215. 
+ Resultats de la mission geologique et ininiere du Yunnan Meridional Sept. 
1903-Janvier 1904, Annaku iki^ Minea, 1907, pp.71, 172. 
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