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Anumintier of fossil wood from Kawakami Coal Mine, Toyoliara-gun, Karahuto (Japanese Saghalien) is stored in the Department of Geology and Mineralogy, Hokkaido Impcrlal University, Sapporo. It is interesting that there is a wood specimen belonging to Taxodioxylon albertense(PENHALLOW) SHIMAIKURA among these materials.

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Tomopteura. Tomopleura CASEY, 1904, Pleurotoma nivea as its type is valid and takes place Asthenotoma of the Japonic fauna.
Paradrillia. A new subgenus of Clavatula. Type: Drillia dainichiensis YOKOYAMA, 1923. Different from Trachelochetus in having a slender spire and well-marked special bands near the shoulder, in front of which axials bifurcate, and making a cancellate ornament with spirals.
Drillia. This old name is valid for the type D. umbilicata GRAY, 1838 is not a species of Clavatula. Inquisitor and Clavus which have been used for such species as Drillia jeffreysii will be aken place be Drillia.

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Four apparently tridactyle footprints impressed onl two coarse-grained Sandstone P!ates were collected by Mr. S. SATO'S party of geological explorers of the Mansyú Kôgyô Kaihatu Kaisya at Ssuchiatzu near Yangshan, lying south of Choyang in Chinchou. The sandstone is presumably Cretaceous in age. The best one is here photographed (somewhat reduced, about 0.7 of natural size).
For the convenience of future reference, the footprints are to be distinguished under the inurle Jcholosauripus s-satoi; some details are to be given in the forthcoming number of the Proceedings of the Imperial Academy, Vol.XVI.

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In last May I found an elephant remain at the cited locality in a Pleistocene deposit of 15 to 20m in thickness which consists chiefly of clay, sand and gravel in alternation with intercalations of lenses of andesitic purmice. It is overlain by a younger formation and underjain by the Tertiary agglomerate.
The fossil is a fragmentary tooth which may be referred to Palaeoloxodon namadicus naurnanni (MAKIYAMA). The specimen in which three chirolites are preserved is 48mm long, 73mm broad and 85 inn. high. The grinding surface is concave. On a side of the chirolites there is a distinct loxodont plica at the middle. The enamel layers measure 2 to 2.5mm in thickness.

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