Fakeontology of Upper Sllwrlaic liocLs, Victoria. 81 



land, but as so many of the limestones and associated shales 

 appear to be favourable to the preservation of their reinains, it is 

 probable that systematic collecting will add more forms. It 

 seems strange that in Mr. Sweet's large collections from Kilmore 

 and Mansfield there are no traces of Heliolites and so few- 

 specimens of otlier forms. 



In the preparation of these notes I have often availed myself 

 of Mr. R. Etheridge's wide experience among Palaeozoic corals. 



Class — Actinozoa. j/T'.X^^ 



Order — Zoantharia. /^/O*^^ V^X'^' 



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 Sub-Order — Z. Sclerodermata. J'*'^/ ' \0 



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 Section — Perforata. \ >\ _ ^^ / v^ 



Family— Favositidse. V^^S^A8$>^Ny^' 



Genus — Favosites, Lamarck, 1816. \s5^ fs )C^^ 

 (Histoire Anim. sans Vert., ii,, p. 204.) 



Favosites gothlandica, Lamarck. 



(For general synonymy see Nicholson, Tabulate Corals, 1879, 

 p. 46 ; for references to records of occurrences of this species and 

 of its variety K goldfussi., D'Orb., in Australia, see R. Etheridge, 

 Junr., Catalogue of Australian Fossils, 1878, pp. 12, 36. 



Favosites gothlandica, Nicholson and Etheridge, Ann. Mag. 

 Nat. Hist., 1879, iv., p. 209. R. M. Johnston, Geo). Tasmania, 

 1888, t., ii., f. 14. R. Etheridge, Junr., Geol. and Pal. Queens- 

 land, 1892, p. 50, t. iii., f. 1-5. 



In the collection there are several specimens of Favosites which 

 can safely be referred to this cosmopolitan species, the size of 

 the corallites, the arrangement of the tabulae, and the general 

 appearance being similar to those characteristics as developed in 

 this protean form. I group together under this head two forms, 

 in one of which the corallites are larger than in the other, but 

 taking into consideration Professor Nicholson's remarks^ on this 

 subject and allowing for the fact that in neither case are the 

 mural pores visible, nothing would be gained by their separation. 



1 Tabulate Corals, pp. 46-56. 



