PART 1.] Feistmanhl: TalmntoJogical Notes f rom the Satpura Coal-basin. 
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They ai'e dark gi‘eenisli-gi ey, rather hard, slightly micaceous. The fossils were 
not many, but sufficient to indicate the horizon. I collected— 
Schizonenra gondwanensis, Fstm. One leaf. 
Vertebraria indica, Royle. The more branched thinner form, like that in the Kamthi beds of 
the RAniganj group. 
Ghssopteris leptoneura, Bunb. 
Glossopteru, another species. 
Shapur coal-field. 
The fossils of this locality agree therefore with those mentioned before from 
the Denwa valley, and can be like these considered as on the horizon of the 
Raniganj group. 
The next observations were of the Damuda rocks and outcropping coal seams 
in the neighbourhood of Shapur. A full report on this 
field was published by Mr. Medlicott in 1875 my object 
was directed to the examination of the outcrops for their fossils. 
In this coal-field also, like in that of Mohpani, Mr. Medlicott points to the 
close relation of the coal beds (Barakar group) to the underlying Talchirs 
(I. c., p. 76), and this conclusion from stratigraphical grounds is perhaps also 
supported, partly at least, by the few organic remains. These are again plants 
only, and 1 think they partly show the existence of representatives of the 
Karharbari beds, indicating the close connection of these coal beds with the 
Talchirs. 
I first visited the outcrops in the Machna river, north-east of Shapur. The 
coal crops out at two places ; in both some fossils were found which tend to indi¬ 
cate two horizons. The more north-eastern outcrop is close to the village Mar- 
danpur, in the river bed ; there are two outcrops running 
parallel, one on the right and the other on the left bank 
of the river, but only that on the right bank appears of any importance, and when 
I was at this place a very primitive kind of mining (digging) was going on on 
this outcrop. 
The dip is 30°, to north-west-by-north. This lower outcrop only was acces¬ 
sible for examination. The whole outcrop (shales included) measures 4 to 5 feet, 
dipping under white, open and rather coarse-grained sandstones. The coal itself is 
at this place not thicker than about 2', being overlaid by coaly shales and under¬ 
laid by grey sandy shales, and in the coal itself there is a good deal of what is 
called fibrous anthracite. 
The fossils at this place were veiy scarce: I found in the coal impressions of 
Vertebraria, and also in the underlying shales some 
impressions were observed wffiich appeared to me to 
belong to the same genus. 
From these outcrops to the south-w'est up the river, we find other outcrops 
at the bend of the river west-south-west of Kotmi. The 
outcrop here passes from east to west across the river, 
' Ree. Geol. Surv- of India, Vol. VIII. 
Mardanpur outcrops. 
Kotmi outcrops. 
