Records of the Geoloyieid Survey of India, 
[vOL. XII. 
S2 
I may now mention that all these sedimentary rocks of the Satpnra coal- 
basin (south of the Narbada) constitute an unbroken series of beds of the Gond- 
wana system from the Talchirs (the lowest) to the Jabalpur group (the highest), 
all being generally conformable, or very nearly so. The Jabalpur group, the 
Bagra-Denwa group, and the Pachmari sandstone form the upper portion of the 
Gondwana system, while the beds from the shales immediately under the Pach¬ 
mari sandstones dowm to the Talchirs constitute the Lower Gondwanas. 
The Loiver Gondwanas in the Satpura basin can therefore perhaps be 
classified thus— 
c. The shaly beds immediately below the Pach¬ 
mari sandstone south of the Mahadeo hill 
near Almod and Rorighat; soft, earthy and 
sandy micaceous shales, greenish-yellowish, 
with indistinct plant remains. They may, 
as proposed by Mr. Medlicott, well be dis¬ 
tinguished as Almod beds. 
h. Mr. Medlicott’s Bijori horizon. Sandstones 
with shales, some of them carbonaceous and 
fossiliferous. 
c. Mr. Medlicott’s Motur horizon ... 
d. Barakars: some of the coal-beds in the Sha- 
pur coal-field. 
e. Karbarbari beds in the Mohpani coal-field and 
some of the seams (near Kotmi and Dolari) 
in the Shapur coal-field. 
f. Talchir group in the Mohp&i and Shapur 
coal-field. 
I may add at end the relations 
fossils— 
Probable repi’esentatives Panchetsub-division_ 
of the Panchet group. 
Represent the Kamthi- Bamuda sub-division. 
Baniganj group. 
Ironstone shales ? ... Ditto. 
Barakars ... ... Ditto. 
Karharbari beds ... Talchir sub-division. 
Talchir group elsewhere Ditto, 
of the several horizons as regards their 
a, Jabalpur group : fossiliferous, plants only, of middle Jurassic type (but also 
Glossojjteris from the Sher river). 
h. Bagra group (H. B. Medlicott) : no fossils known at present. 
c. Denw’a group : a scute of a Parasuch'an crocodile from near Jhirpa (on 
the Denwa river) and some plant fragments {Glossopteris') from near 
Kesla. 
d. Pachmari sandstone : no fossils known at present. 
e. The shales immediately below the Pachmari sandstone: indistinct plant 
impressions (Almod beds). 
/. Bijori horizon: shales with stalk remains : Equisetaceoris stalks, Schizo- 
neura, Glossopteris, Pecopteris, ^e. 
In the sandstones w'as found a portion of the skeleton of a reptile said to be 
Archegosaiirus. 
g. Motiir horizon : no fossils known up to date. 
