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l82 THE BALKAN PENINSULA<br />

The lower or Tenuilobatus Zone is characterized by Holcophylloceras<br />

polyolcum (Ben.), Phylloceras isotypum (Ben.), Taramelliceras trachynotum<br />

(Op.), Aspidoceras uhlandi (Op.), A. zeuschneri Zit., A. deaki H., Pseudosimoceras<br />

herbichi (Hauer), P. teres (N.), Ataxioceras fasciferum (N.) et<br />

spp., Sutneria spp.<br />

FIG. 19.—The Oriental Island (shaded; at the time of the Lias, after Pompeckj; the eastern<br />

bulge and the south-west coast modified to exclude outcrops since discovered in the<br />

Stranca Mountains and Argolis. The edge of the Russian mainland is also shaded.<br />

Unfortunately the horizon of some of the most interesting forms is<br />

still unknown: among them Hemihaploceras nobile (N.) (type of the genus),<br />

Semiformiceras darwini (N.), Simocosmoceras nitidulum (N.), Katroliceras<br />

acer (N.), Pseudowaagenia haynaldi (H.) (type of the genus), and most of<br />

the remarkable Perisphinctids. Many species, including Aspidoceras<br />

acanthicum, Lytoceras polycyclum and Phylloceratids, range through both<br />

zones. Pygope janitor is confined to the Beckeri Zone.<br />

In the region of the Iron Gates and also in the Transylvanian Alps<br />

the Acanthicus Beds are absent, overlapped by the Tithonian.<br />

OXFORDIAN<br />

Apart from a small collection of Upper Oxfordian Perisphinctids and<br />

Euaspidoceras from a locality in Banat (Neumayr, 1871, p. 356) no<br />

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