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II.—Notice of some Fossils from Singapore discovered by John B. Scrivenor, F.G.S., Geologist to the Federated Malay States

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 May 2009

R. Bullen Newton
Affiliation:
Department of Geology, British Museum (Nat. Hist.), Cromwell Road, S.W.

Extract

As representing the first fossils yet recorded from Singapore, these specimens are of considerable interest. They principally consist of marine Lamellibranch remains accompanied by an obscure indeterminable Gasteropod, and a few fragmentary terrestrial plants. Their condition, however, as casts and impressions renders them most difficult to work out satisfactorily, more especially the shells where only external features of the valves are available for study. Some of the specimens, however, retain certain points of structure or contour which appear to have an important bearing on their probable geological age. The association of land and marine organisms would at once suggest an estuarine or lagoon origin for the beds containing them, more especially as the mollusca belong to genera or families which may be regarded as of shallow-water habit, whilst the plant-remains might be accounted for by the close proximity of land or the transporting agency of river action. Among the shells, that referred to Goniomya is of chief interest, since it belongs almost exclusively to the Mesozoic period, being particularly characteristic of Jurassic rocks and of much rarer occurrence in deposits of Cretaceous age.

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Original Articles
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1906

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References

1 These Borneo Beds have been examined and reported upon by Mr. John B. Scrivenor, and the results issued in a Government paper (No. 8) published at Kuala Lumpur by the Geological Department of the Federated Malay States on the 19th January, 1905, entitled “A Report on the Geology of the Residency of Sarawak, and of the Sadong District, Borneo, with special reference to the occurrence of Gold and Coal.”