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MIOCENE SHELLS AT KORINITZA. 
of miocene age, but perhaps even of the upper portion of the Sub-Apennine group, 
as the Ringicula buccinea which it contains is a pliocene and recent as well as a 
miocene species. More accurate comparisons may indeed prove these salt de- 
posits to have been formed at precisely the same period as the upper blue marls of 
Savona and other parts of Italy. 
Shelly Sands of the Upper Vistula and its Tributaries, Korinitza, fyc . — We did not 
trace in detail the various beds containing tertiary shells which occur at intervals 
upon or near to the banks of the Vistula below Cracow, where they form low hills, 
for the most part composed of sandy and incoherent strata. Guided by Professor 
Zeuschner, we at once repaired to a good and well-known shelly locality called 
Korinitza on the Nida, a tributary of the Vistula. Here we observed that the sands 
are more calcareous, passing occasionally into cream-coloured sandy limestone, 
which seemed to rest upon marls and clays. There are, however, few good vertical 
sections of these slightly coherent and irregularly distributed masses, which rise on 
the whole to heights of 150 to 200 feet above the adjacent river Nida, reposing 
upon Jurassic strata of w 7 hite limestone, which is loaded with fossils. The tertiary 
shells lie about in profusion on the surface of the arable land, and are also found in 
calcareous marlstones and sands in small ravines to the north and west of the little 
village. 
Though we might at once satisfy our readers concerning the age of these ter- 
tiary shells by referring them to the w r orks of Pusch 1 , in which some of the species 
are published, we think it desirable to confirm and extend his authority by annex- 
ing the following list of the shells we procured upon the spot ; in naming which we 
have had the assistance of M. Deshayes and Mr. Morris. 
Shells found at Korinitza in Poland. 
Natica glaucina, him. 
— olla. Mar. de Serres 
Turritella Archimedis, Brong. t. 2. f. 8 
— turns, Bust. 1. 1, f. 11 
Ancillaria conoidea. Desk. Ency. Meth. p. 44. No. 
A. coniforrais, Pwscli, t. 11. f. 1 
Ringicula buccinea 
Voluta roagorum, Brocchi, Pusch, 1. 11. f. 2 
Buccinum obliquatum, Dubois 
— reticulatum, Brocchi 
— reticulatum, Dubois (non Brocchi nec Linn.) 
Other Localities. 
.. Vienna, Bordeaux, Volhynia. 
r Bordeaux, Italy, Perpignan, living in the Me- 
l diterranean. 
.. Bordeaux, Vienna, Volhynia. 
.. Bordeaux. 
‘ j- Vienna, Touraine. 
. . Vienna, Bordeaux, also living. 
.. Vienna, Sub- Apennines. 
.. Volhynia. 
r Vienna, Sub- Apennines, living in the Northern 
1 and Mediterranean Seas. 
.. Volhynia. 
1 Polen’s Palaeontologie. Warsaw, 1837. 
