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Newer coal. Trias 1 



Queensland. — Dawson River basin, Comet River? I have seen 

 no fossils from this locality, but I visited a coal seam near Black 

 water which appeared to be continuous with the Dawson basin. 

 The most of the country is overlaid by trap of tertiary origin. 

 Tolmies Range or plateau, raises the Comet basin 600 feet above 

 the Dawson. The sandstones are of the nature of the Dawson and 

 Newcastle basin. I should think borings might meet with coal 

 seams anywhere between the Dawson and Comet, where thick 

 beds of trap rock do not offer an obstacle. Cooktown? Oakey Creek. 



New South Wales. — Newcastle, ferruginous sandstones with 

 coarse waterworn conglomerate ; at the base finer conglomerates 

 (J-inch pebbles) occasionally blue shales, with Phyllotheca 

 australis, Vertebraria australis, Glossopteris browniana and six 

 other species, Sphenopteris lobifolia, var. exilis, Caulopteris adamsi, 

 Noggerathiopsis media. Mulimbula, near Newcastle, with the same 

 species and Zeugophyllites elongatus ; Raymond Terrace, same as 

 Newcastle. Blackmail's Swamp, west of Sydney, Glossopteris 

 browniana, G. tceniopter aides, G. Wilkinsoni ; Bowenfels, species 

 of Glossopteris and Vertebraria with Gangamopteris clarkei, 

 Brachyphyllum australe ; Guntawang (193 miles west of Sydney), 

 Gangamopteris angustifolia ; Illawarra, Glossopteris many species, 

 and Noggerathiopsis spathulata. 



Victoria. — Bacchus Marsh sandstones with Gangamopteris angus- 

 tifolia, G. spathulata, G. obliqua. These beds are classed by 

 Feistmantel with the Newcastle beds on the evidence of these 

 fossils No others have been found. 



Tasmania. — The upper and lower coal have not been distin- 

 guished in Tasmania, though doubtless both are represented. 



Rh^etic or Lower Lias. 



Queensland. — Burnett River. 



New South Wales. — Talbragar River, Ballinore, near Dubbo, 

 with Walchia milneana, Merianopteris major, Alethopteris currani, 

 Clifton, Darling Downs. 



Victoria and Tasmania not known 



