I.—On the Gondwana Series of India, as a Probable Representative of the Juro-Triassic Epoch in Europe

Ottokar Feistmantel

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I.—On the Gondwana Series of India, as a Probable Representative of the Juro-Triassic Epoch in Europe

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Ottokar Feistmantel

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Since Sir Charles Bunbury described the Flora of Nagpúr, drawing the most rational conclusions, and since Messrs. Oldham and Morris illustrated a portion of the Flora of the Rajmahal Series in the Rajmahal Hills, nothing of importance has come before the public regarding the Flora of the Indian Plant-bearing Series, although the then abundant material has subsequently been considerably increased through the exertion of the officers of the Geological Survey of India, who have also done much to explain the geological relations of the whole Series.

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Information: Geological Magazine , Volume 3 , Issue 11 , November 1876 , pp. 481 - 491

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^{page 481 note 1} Quarterly Journ. Geol. Soc., vol. xvii. pp. 325—346, pl. viii-xii.Google Scholar

^{page 481 note 2} Palæontologia Indica, 1862, vi. fascic, xxxv. plates, 52 pages.Google Scholar

^{page 481 note 3} See the different volumes of the Memoirs and Records of the Geological Survey of India.

^{page 481 note 4} I have indicated it a little nearer in Rec. Geol. Surv. of India, vol. ix. No. 2.Google Scholar

^{page 481 note 5} The Kachh Beds with marine and terrestrial animals, the Jabalpúr Group with terrestrial, also the Kota and Maléri Beds; the Sripermatur Group with plants and marine fossils, and the Panchet Group with pretty frequent terrestrial fossils.

^{page 481 note 6} Proposed some years ago.

^{page 481 note 7} Mem. Geol. Surv. of India, vol. iii.Google Scholar

^{page 482 note 1} Quart. Journ. Geol. Soc. 1875, pp. 519—542.Google Scholar

^{page 482 note 2} Palæontol. Indica, 1865 (4,1).

^{page 482 note 3} Mem. Geol. Surv. India, vol. i.

^{page 482 note 4} Palæontol. Indica, 1873—75.

^{page 482 note 5} DrOldham, , Mem. Geol. Surv. India, vol. iiGoogle Scholar.; Blanford, H. F., Quart. Journ. Geol. Soc., 1875Google Scholar; Blanford, W. T., Rec. Geol. Surv. India, vol. ix. No. 3.Google Scholar

^{page 482 note 6} See my notes in Jahrb. d. k.k. geol. Reichsanst. Wien, 1875, and in Rec. Geol. Surv. India, vol. ix. Nos. 2 and 3.Google Scholar

^{page 482 note 7} Mem. Geol. Surv. India, Vol. ii.

^{page 482 note 8} , Oldham and , Morris, Pal. Indica, 1862Google Scholar; , Feistmantel, Rec. Geol. Surv. India, vol. ix. No. 2.Google Scholar

^{page 482 note 9} Fossil plants brought by Mr. Ball this year (1876).

^{page 482 note 10} Fossil plants collected by Mr. King—mentioned by me in Rec. Geol. Surv. India, vol. ix. No. 2.Google Scholar

^{page 482 note 11} MrFoote, , Mem. Geol. Surv. India, vol. x. p., 100. Fossils sent by him.Google Scholar

^{page 482 note 12} Fossils collected and sent by Mr. King.

^{page 483 note 1} Hughes, T. W., Rec. Geol. Surv. India, vol. ix. No. 3, p. 86.Google Scholar

^{page 483 note 2} W.T., Blanford, Mem. Geol. Surv. India, vol. iii.Google Scholar

^{page 483 note 3} Feistmantel, , Rec. Geol. Surv. India, vol. ix. No. 3, pp. 65—67.Google Scholar

^{page 483 note 4} Huxley, Pal. Indica, 1865 (4, 1).

^{page 483 note 5} Rec. Gelo. Surv. India, Vol. ix No. 3, p. 68.Google Scholar

^{page 483 note 6} Ibid. vol. ix. No.3, pp. 77—79.

^{page 483 note 7} Hughes, , Rec. Geol. Surv. India, vol.ix. No. 3.Google Scholar

^{page 483 note 8} Wynne, Geology of Kachh, Mem. Geol. Surv. India, vol. ix. pt. 1.Google Scholar

^{page 483 note 9} North-west of Kachh.

^{page 484 note 1} Tate, Geology of South Africa, Quart. Journ. Geol. Soc. 1867, vol. xxiii. p. 139 ff. Tate, an sharpe before, proves that this group is of the age of the Great Oolite.Google Scholar

^{page 485 note 1} Palæont. Indica: Cepalopoda of Kachh, 1873—76.

^{page 485 note 2} Records Geol. Surv. India, vol. ix. No. 3.Google Scholar

^{page 485 note 3} Oldham and Morris, Pal. Indica, 1862.

^{page 485 note 4} Pal. Véget. vol. i. p. 279: vol. iii. p. 652.Google Scholar

^{page 485 note 5} Flora der Greuzschichten, 1867, pp. 15, 20.

^{page 485 note 6} Only lately brought by Mr. Ball, therefore not yet published; also not to be mentioned here

^{page 485 note 7} Feistmantel, , Rec. Geol. Surv. India, vol. ix. No. 2.Google Scholar

^{page 486 note 1} Palæont. Indica, 1865 (4, 1)

^{page 486 note 2} Oldham, , Mem. Geol. Surv. India, vol. iii.Google Scholar

^{page 487 note 1} Verzeichniss der zu Bayreuth befindlichen Petrefakte, 1840, p. 79, pl. viii. and foil.Google Scholar

^{page 487 note 2} DrOldham, , Mem. Geol. Surv. Ind. vol. ii.Google Scholar; Blanford, H. F., Quart. Journ. Geol. Soc. 1875Google Scholar; Blanford, W. T., Rec. Geol. Surv. India, vol. ix. No. 3.Google Scholar

^{page 487 note 3} DrOldham, , l.c., pp. 327, 330.Google Scholar

^{page 487 note 4} In 1871 Dr. Stoliczka brought some specimens from the Kurhurbari Coal-field, among them Sagenopteris, Gangamopteris (or Cyclopteris of that time), and three specimens of Voltzia heterophylla, Bgt. In 1873 Mr. Hughes brought from the Raniganj Coal-field some specimens, among these a Fern of the genus Actinopteris, which I described as A. Bengalensis, Fstm.

^{page 488 note 1} This important word is left out in Blanford’s paper, Quart. Journ. Geol. Soc., 1875, p. 525, while quoting this sentence from Sir C. Bunbury.

^{page 488 note 2} There is therefore no reason for it, when MrBlanford, W. T., Rec. Geol. Surv. India, vol. ix. No. 3, p. 82Google Scholar, says, that the same Flora, which now should prove Trias, justified the assigning of a Palæozoic age to the Damuda formation (as did Dr. Oldham and Mr. H. F. Blanford, l.c.). The Flora was from the first beginning of its discovery the same Triassic Flora as to-day.

^{page 488 note 3} Known for a long time.

^{page 488 note 4} See SirBunbury, Ch., Quart. Journ. Geol. Soc. vol. xvii. Also our collections prove it.Google Scholar

^{page 488 note 5} Only lately I have discovered it among our specimens.

^{page 488 note 6} Report of Progress, Geol. Surv. of Victoria, 1874, p. 35.Google Scholar

^{page 489 note 1} Ibid. p. 35.

^{page 489 note 2} Daintree, Quart. Journ. Geol. Soc., vol. xxviii. p. 288.Google Scholar

^{page 489 note 3} Zigno, Flora fossilis form. Oolithicæ

^{page 489 note 4} Some years ago brought by Mr. F. Fedden.

^{page 489 note 5} SirBunbury, C.’s Tæniopt. Danaeoides (?), loc. cit. p. 332, pl. x. 2Google Scholar; other specimens a long time since in ours and the As. Society’s collections.

^{page 489 note 6} Some specimens from Kurhurbari brought by Dr. Stoliczka, 1871.

^{page 489 note 7} Formerly known as Cyclopteris, Bgt.; many years in our collections.

^{page 489 note 8} Rec. Geol. Surv. India, vol. ix. No. 3, p. 75.Google Scholar

^{page 489 note 9} Described ibid., brought 1873 by Mr. Hughes.

^{page 489 note 10} MrBlanford, W. T., 1876, Rec. Geol. Surv. India, vol. xiii. No. 3, p. 82, is therefore not right in saying: “Cycads abound in the former, but have not hitherto been found in the latter (Damudas).” They were indeed known long ago!Google Scholar

^{page 489 note 11} Bronn, Jahrb, N.. f. Min. Geol. Pal., etc., 1858, p. 129, ff. pl. vi.Google Scholar

^{page 489 note 12} Brought from Kurhurbari Coal-field, 1871, by Dr. Stoliczka.

^{page 489 note 13} Brought by Dr. Stoliczka from Kurhurbari Coal-field.

^{page 490 note 1} Records Geol. Surv. India, vol. ix. No. 3, p. 82.Google Scholar

^{page 490 note 2} Records, vol. ix No. 3, p. 84.Google Scholar

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