The Popular Science Monthly, August, 1900: Vol. 57, May, 1900 to October, 1900Various
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The Popular Science Monthly, August, 1900: Vol. 57, May, 1900 to October, 1900
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Pompeckj says: “The occurrence of these three genera of Ammonites
proves that the marine fauna of Cape Flora contain representatives of
the Callovian. More recent marine horizons have certainly not been
formed at Cape Flora, as far as I can judge from the collection of
fossils before me.... The Oxfordian and all the more recent Jurassic
horizons do not occur as marine deposits at Cape Flora.”
He finds species pertaining to the Lower Bajocian, Lower, Middle and
Upper Callovian horizons. It is most interesting to note that only
one other part of the arctic regions, Prince Patrick Island, Parry
Archipelago, has produced fossils, described by Haughton as Lias, that
are certainly older than the Callovian. It is, however, recognized as
possible that Lundgreen’s fossils from East Greenland may form another
exception.
Pompeckj points out that while the Bajocian fauna of Cape Flora is
without analogy in the arctic regions, it nevertheless presents
distinct affinities to the Central European Jura, and especially
resembles the Russian Callovian.
Moreover, this Jurassic collection from Cape Flora is of special
importance in outlining the geographic distribution of that system.
Pompeckj adds: “Hence the existence of a Bajocian sea in the north of
the Eurasian Jura continent is proved beyond all doubt.... As early as
the Bajocian period, there existed a Shetland Straits, which separated
the Eurasian continent, existing through the Lias period until the end
of the Bathonian, from the nearctic Jura continent.”
The comments relative to the transition of Nova Zembla, Spitzbergen,
Franz Josef Land, and possibly Alaska, from land to sea and sea to
land, are of marked interest, indicating as they do that large areas of
polar regions were exposed in the mesozoic period to repeated and very
considerable oscillations of the sea level.
The more interesting of the Jurassic fossils, found at Cape Flora,
are shown in the accompanying illustration. _Cadocera Nanseni_ (n.
sp.), 1, 2, 3, 5, 6. _Cadoceras_, sp. ex. aff. _Cad. Nanseni_ (n.
sp.), 4. _Cadoceras Tchefkini_, d’Orb, 7. _Cadoceras_, sp. indet., 8.
_Quenstedoceras vertumnum_, Sintzow, 9. _Cadoceras Frearsi_, d’Orb, 10.
_Macrocephalites_, 11. _Macrocephalites Koettlitzi_, n. sp., 12.
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