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This member of the group was not much
examined by us, and I can by no means
affirm that it does not contain fossil re-
mains.
2. Sandstone, becoming more marly
and argillaceous.
3. Thicker-bedded sandstone, passing-
down into
4. Dark-coloured shale.
5. Coarser and reddish-brown sand-
stone in dark- coloured shale.
6. Blackish shale, with small nodular
concretions of cement- stone and septaria,
passing down into thin laminse of ar-
gillaceous limestone, with concretionary
potato-stones, Fish-scales, and Copro-
lites.
7. Thin courses of black shale, gra-
duating with dark bituminous flagstones,
with fossil Fishes — Palceoniscus, .fcc.
(These occur a little to the north of the
Liebestadtl station, at Kostialow.)
8. Sandy and argillaceous dark-co-
loured shale, becoming in the lower part
what is locally called ' Thon-schiefer.'
In the lower part is one layer of thin
flinty limestone, concretionary in parts,
and below it the bituminous shale gra-
duates into a true coal, with impressions
of Plants in the associated shale. This
coal was formerly worked to some extent
in the adjacent hill of Cikoasko, though
as exposed on the side of the railway it
is of small thickness.
It is in this portion of the series, and
particularly in its western extension to
Hohenelbe, that many of the Fishes and
Reptiles have been found which charac-
terize this central member of the group.
The dip here is about 20° to the S.E.
9. Brown shale with strong sandstone
bands of. about 6 feet each in thickness.
These sandstones graduate into the so-
called ' arkose' of the Austrian Surveyors,
one of the lower beds of which is a con-
glomerate, with many pebbles of white
quartz. Fossil plants (notably large
stems of Arancarites) occur in the sand-
stones and shales.