New Miocene Faunas from Cyprus

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AN interesting collection of Tertiary fossils has recently been sent me for determination by Mr. C. P. Manglis, Manager of the Mitsero mines in Cyprus, who has collected them from the neighbourhood of these mines. Mitsero village stands near the head of a valley running down the north side of the Troodos mountains to the plains of Morphou and is described by Messrs. Cullis and Edge (1, p. 38) as standing on volcanic rocks close to the junction of the pillow-lavas with the overlying marls and limestones, while “ behind it is a bold sedimentary escarpment breached by the valley just mentioned and culminating in Koroni Mountain (2,140 feet), 1½ miles to the westnorth-west ”. The Koronia Limestone, the outcrop of which on the Evrykou road the author visited in 1929 (2, p. 443), occupies the top of the escarpment, as shown on a map sent to me by Mr. Manglis of the immediate district (scale, 1: 10,000) from the village of Kato Moni on the north-west to the village of Mitsero on the south-east. The position and age of the Koronia Limestone have been uncertain owing to the lack of definite fossil evidence, though the author (2a, p. 251) was inclined to put it in the Miocene rather than the Pliocene on the strength of a species of Cerithium which he discovered in it. The majority of the fossils in Mr. Manglis’s collection come from this limestone and provide ample evidence of its Miocene age.