_Pinna_, probably nov. sp. | _Corbula_ sp.
|
**_Inoceramus cripsi_. | **_Natica_ sp.
|
_Ostrea_ sp. | _Tylostoma syriaca_.
|
_Exogyra flabellata_. | _Turritella_ nov. sp. aff. _nodosa_.
|
_E. olisiponensis_. | **_Turritella_ sp.
|
_E. mermeti_. | _Cerithium_ sp.
|
_Plicatula Reynesi_. | _Pterodonta_ aff. _inflata_.
|
_Spondylus_ (?) | _Murex_.
|
_Modiola_ sp. | **_Fusus_ sp.
|
_Cardium_ sp. | **_Drillia pleurotomoides_.
|
_Isocardia_ sp. |
_Nautilus Munieri_.
**_Pachydiscus peramplus_.
_Neolobites vibrayeanus_.
[Footnote **: Indicative of a somewhat later age than Cenomanian.]
The above fauna taken as a whole has a decided Cenomanian aspect,
although some of the forms (marked **) are indicative of a somewhat
later age, i.e., Turonian and Senonian. As the next bed above is
the Danian White Chalk, it is probable that some of the upper beds
of this series form a transitional stage between the Cenomanian and
Danian. The presence of the bone-bed, as already mentioned probably
of the same age as the Dakhla and Eastern Desert bone-beds, i.e.,
Campanian, supports this view. In any case, however, the great
thickness of beds, of Senonian-Danian age, of the southern oases of
Dakhla and Kharga, including the bone-beds, the _Exogyra Overwegi_
series and the ash-gray shales, is here apparently only represented
by a few metres of deposits.
DANIAN.
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