PLATE 34.-Sites of Borings near Htichara. Scale 8′′-1 mile. PROVISIONAL LIST OF PALEOZOIC AND MESOZOIC FOSSILS COLLECTED BY DR. COGGIN BROWN IN YUN-NAN, BY F. R. COWPER REED, SC.D., F.G.S. A series of papers dealing with the geological results of his explorations in Yun-nan has been published by Dr. Coggin Brown in the Records of the Geological Survey of India during the last ten years, and there are references in their pages to the discovery of fossils at many localities.1 The specimens have been entrusted to me for determination, and a Memoir dealing with them will appear in due course in the Paleontologia Indica. Although the manuscript is nearly ready for the press, it is thought that in the meanwhile a provisional list of the fossils providing the paleontological evidence for the occurrence of the various stratigraphical horizons would be useful to other workers in Yun-nan and in neighbouring areas. It is interesting to find in the present collection rich faunas of Lower Carboniferous and Permo-Carboniferous age possessing the same general characters as those already described by Mansuy and others in Eastern Asia. There is also a noticeable occurrence of a Devonian fauna from one locality. Attention should also be drawn to the abundant Upper Triassic fauna of Miao-tsway which exhibits somewhat the same characters as that of the Nucula marls of the Sunda Islands and of the Padang beds of Sumatra. The Namyau beds of Bathonian age, which occur in the Northern Shan States, are also represented in another locality and have yielded a typical series of fossils. LIST OF FOSSILS. CAMBRIAN. Lo-chia-ying, (K12·242).3 Redlichia cf. chinensis Walcott. 1 See Rec., Geol. Surv. Ind., Vol. XLIII, pp. 173-205, pp. 327-334, (1913); Vol. XLIV, pp. 385-122, (1914); Vol. XLVII, pp. 205-266, (1916); Vol. LIV, pp. 68-86, 296--323 and 323-340, (1922). "It should be pointed out that Dr. Cowper Reed has already described in detail the Ordovician and Silurian fossils collected by me in Yun nen. See Pal. Ind., new ser., Vol. VI, Mem. No. 3, (1917).--J. Coggin brown. These numbers refer to those under which the fossils are registered in the books of the Geological Survey of India. ORDOVICIAN. Pupiao, (K17-558). Caryocrinus sp. DEVONIAN. 4 miles from Chin-chiang-kai, Yung-pe route, (K17·534). Favosites cognata sp. nov. Pachypora aff. polygonalis Mansuy. Striatopora retardata sp. nov. Amplexus yunnanensis sp. nov. Crinoidal remains. Orthis cf. bistriata Tscherr Chonetes plebeia Schnur. var. nov. plurilineata. sarcinulata Schloth. var nov. yungpeensis |