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association with any Mesozoic plants such as Tceniopteris or 

 Thinnfeldia. If, therefore, we reject the doubtful case of the 

 Glossopteris from Arowa, presumably of Carboniferous age, men- 

 tioned by Sir F. McCoy, Glossopteris is exclusively Permo-Car- 

 boniferous in its range in New South Wales. 



In Queensland Glossopteris occurs in the Middle and Upper 

 Bowen Series, in both of which it is associated with a Marine 

 Permo-Carboniferous fauna. It is of Palaeozoic age at the Bowen 

 River Coal-field ; at the Dawson River Coal-field ; at Peak Downs, 

 Townsville ; Oakey Creek, near Cooktown ; and the Little River 

 Coal-fields, Palmer River. Until lately it was considered to be 

 wholly of PaljBzoic age in Queensland as in New South Wales. As 

 far back, however, as 1872, the late Mr. Norman Taylor (formerly of 

 the Geological Survey of Victoria), identified Glossopteris leaves 

 from a hill south of the Mitchell River, in the Cape Gold-field, 

 Queensland, in a formation subsequently considered to be Upper 

 Cretaceous, but which he at the time considered to be Permo- 

 Carboniferous. In 1890, Mr. Rands discovered Glossopteris in 

 situ at Betts' Creek, Cape Gold-field, in rocks considered by him 

 to belong to the Desert Sandstone, and therefore to be of Upper 

 Cietaceous age.*t 



In July, 1891, Mr. R. L. Jack, RG.S., the Gjvernment 

 Geologist of Queensland, confirmed Mr. Rands' opinion as to the 

 horizon where his specimens were obtained being in Upper 

 Cretaceous rocks. | With the exception of the reference just 

 given relating to the Cretaceous age of Glossopteris in Queens- 

 land, as far as the Authors are aware the only other statement as 

 to Glossopteris being of Post-Jurassic age is contained in a 

 quotation by the late Dr. Ottokar Feistmantel § from Traut- 

 schold, who described II a leaf like that of Glossopteris, with a 



* Report on the Cape Gold-field, p. 10. Brisbane. By Authority, 1891. 

 + Jack aud Etheridge, Junr. Geology and Palaioutology of Queensland, 

 p. 518. :;: Geology, &c., of Queensland, p. 519. 



§ Mem. Geol. Survey N. S. Wales, Pal. Series, No. ,3, 1890, pp. 119-120. 

 llNouv. M^in. Soc. Imp. Nat. Moscou, xiii. p. 221. 



