Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 240, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 October 1913 — Fossils as Sign-Posts. [ARTICLE]

Fossils as Sign-Posts.

The recent discovery in the. southern part of Madagascar of reptilian fossils, which geologists affirm belong to the Permian epoch, leads to the expectation that coal will be found there. In India, Australia and southern Africa the strata containing the remains of these animals are characterized by the presence of coal-beds. The likejihood that the same condition of affairs will be found in Madagascar is regarded as being much strengthened by the association of one of the fossils recently discovered with a leaf of glossopterls, one of the plants most distinctive of the Permian coal formations in the southern hemisphere.