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WITH regard to recent letters on this subject1, I would recall in addition that Mr. R. V. Anderson reported finding Quercus in the Punjab Saline Series2; while Foraminifera said to be from the same were referred by me to Ranikot species. Commenting on my report, Sir Lewis Fermor remarked that: "The discovery of these fossils indicates a Ranikot or post-Ranikot age for the Salt Marl Series, and appears to set at rest the long controversy about the age of the Salt Marl. We appear now to know that the age of this series is Tertiary and not Cambrian"3.
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Rec. Geol. Surv. Ind., 66, 117 (1933). Mr. Pinfold and I have since shown that Ranikot beds are well represented on the Salt Range, vide Nature, 139, 414 (1937); Pal. Indica (N.S.), 24, Mem. 1 (1937).
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DAVIES, L. Age of the Saline Series in the Salt Range of the Punjab. Nature 154, 53–54 (1944). https://doi.org/10.1038/154053b0
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