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TART 2.] Grieshach Falaontological notes, Lower Trias, Himalayas. 
The above list of beds, it will be seen, cori’esponds in a marvellous degre e 
with the beds of the Trias as developed in the Eastern Alps, and the order stands 
therefore as follows :— 
The Trias in the Himalayas. 
Character of rocks. 
Zones. 
Correlation with horizons in 
the Eastern Alps. 
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6. Liver-coloured lime- 
Corhis meUinyi, Han. 
stone with greenish 
var. 
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shales. 
VOpponitz and Raibl. 
5. Friable shales and 
Spir. lilangens''s, Stol. 
V 
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u 
earthy beds. 
J 
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4. Limestone 
Tropites ehrlichi 
Hallstadt and 
Ph 
3. Earthy beds and shales 
St. Casslan. 
2. Black limestone and 
Daonella tyrolensis. 
Wengen. 
dolomites. 
Mojs. 
1. Black limestone flags 
Brachiopods 
Buchenstein. 
and splintery shales. 
4. Hard grey concrc- 
Ptychites gerardi, 
Keifling lime- b 
tionary limestone. 
Blfd. 
stone, / -TTv T . 
1 Virgloria 
VH 
3. Earthy limestone 
Phynchonella semi- 
Eecoaro lime-C 
plecta, Miin,, var. 
stone. ) 
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2. Limestone and shales. 
Posidonomya angusta, 
Campiler beds V 
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Hail. 
> Werfeii | 
1. Dark shales, etc. 
Monotis clarae, Emm. 
Beds of Seiss ) 
Triag in Germany, 
1 
\ Keupor. 
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1 
3 
Muschelkalk. 
Buntsandsteiii. 
As far as is known at present, this succession of horizon holds good in India 
over a considerable area, to judge from certain beds, which have been found in 
other parts of our Himalajas. The lower group has been described by Stoliczka 
fi’om the north-w^est Himalayas (Spiti), but ho considered only the upper part of 
the Lower Trias as such, with Ehynclionella salteriana, Stol., and Ptychites 
gerardt, Blfd. He certainly came across the lower group, but in the absence of 
known Trias fossils he represented it as ujipcr carboniferous, containing numer¬ 
ous Productiis sewireticulahis. Mart, (sp.), Sinrifer rajah, Dav. I have compared 
some of his original specimens with my own collection, and have no doubt that 
the beds are quite identical both in lithological character and pirobably in their 
fossil contents. 
It might be urged that the presence of the Productus speaks for a Permian age 
of these deposits; but taking into consideration the fact that stratigraphically 
the complex of Trias beds is a connected series of deposits without any interrup¬ 
tion, Avith the greyish black shales invariably at their base, the whole resting on 
