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sections stretches a wide extent of the fertile Lindenow fiats, 

 bounded on the north by the Bluff, and on the south or Lindenow 

 side by a sloping bank, which is covered by a thick alluvial 

 deposit. The ironstone commences at about 60 feet up the bank, 

 iind is traceable along a narrow river terrace as far as Moitun 

 Creek on the west, as well as for a long way eastward. At 

 Lindenow the band is fairly massive, and from 15 to 20 feet 

 thick. Owing to small quarrying operations, the face is well 

 •exposed, and though we spent only a few hours at the spot, we 

 were able to collect many easily identifiable casts. The section 

 was examined at an early stage of our work, and the results 

 obtained had a large share in convincing us that the ironstone 

 casts on the Mitchell banks from Boggy Creek westward simply 

 represent the eocene forms, which, either in the limestones or in 

 the shell beds at Skinner's and Dreir's, are in most cases still 

 preserved unaltered. We have seen no clearer casts anywhere 

 than at Lindenow, and the palaeontological evidence is thus 

 specially decisive. 



Fossils from Lindenow. 



Vohita weldii, T. Woods 

 Siphonalia (?) sp. 

 Cohimbella (?) sp. 

 Mxirex lophoessus, Tate 

 Lampusia anneetans, Tate 

 Cassis exigua, T. Woods 

 Potamides sp. 

 Tiirritella niurrayana, Tate 

 Tiirritella tristira, Tate 

 Lima bassii, T. Woods 

 Pecten foiilcheri, T. Woods 

 Pecten sturtianus, Tate (?) 

 Glycimeris laticostata, Q. and G. 



Trigonia semiundiilata, Jenkins. 

 Cardita sp. 



Meretrix ebiirnea, Tate (?) 

 Chione etheridgei, Pritchard 

 Chione sp. (also at Skinner's) 

 Corbida ephamilla, Tate 

 Cuspidaria subrostrata, Tate 

 Myadora australis, Johnston 

 Limulites rutella, T. Woods 

 Paradoxechiniis novus, Laube 

 Placotrochus elongatus, Duncan 

 Placotrochiis deltoideus, Duncan 



On one occasion when driving along the Lindenow road we 

 observed ironstone rocks cropping out on a grassy bank about 

 lialf a mile to the south. Leaving the buggy on the road we 

 walked over to the spot and broke up a quantity of the stone. 

 After a prolonged search we found a few fossiliferous blocks, 

 which shewed casts of species identical with some we have 

 recorded from the neighbouring section. 



