Art. VIII. — Fossil Fish Remains from the Tertiaries 

 of Australia. 



Part I. 



By F. chapman, A.L.S., 



Palaeontologist, National Museum, Melboui'ne, 



AND 



G. B. PRITCHARD, 



Lectixrer on Geology, Working Men's College, Melbourne. 



(With Plates XI. and XII.). 

 [Eead 14th Jiily, 1904J. 



Contents. 



PAOE 



I.— Introduction ------- 267 



11.^ — Description of Species ------ 268 



III. — ^Range in time of Genera of Australian Sharks - 286 

 IV. — Distribution of Tertiary Species of Australian 



Sharks - - 287 



V. — Distribution of Tertiary Sharks outside Australia - 290 

 VT. — -Comparative Table of the Selachian Remains from 



the Northern Hemisphere and Australia - 291 



VII.— Summary of Conclusions ----- 292 



VIII.— Bibliography - - 293 



I.— INTRODUCTION. 



Fish remains form a very considerable jjortion of the fossil 

 fauna of the Australian Tertiary deposits, but hitherto they 

 appear to have been somewhat neglected. The previously 

 recorded species are principally to be found in lists and cata- 

 logues of fossils, but seldom more than as a mere identification. 

 Two of our species have, however, been well figured and de- 

 scribed by the late Sir F. McCoy in the Prodromus of the 

 Palaeontology of Victoria, and one other species by the late 



