• V1,y 'l Chapman, Note on a Large Specimen ol ('onus dennanti. 5 



1915 j 01 j j 



NOTE ON A LARGE SPECIMEN OF CONUS DENNANTI, 



Tate. 



(With Figure.) 



By F. Chapman, A.L.S., Palaeontologist, National Museum, 



Melbourne. 



(Read before the Field Naturalists' Club of Victoria, Sth Feb., 191 5. J 

 During the transgression of the Miocene sea upon the Aus- 

 tralian continent, great thicknesses of sediments, as clays and 

 shell-marls, with occasional greensands, were laid down, 

 particularly along the coast-line of that period. Both on sea 

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V. ('.. photo. 



1. CONUS (LITHOCONUS) DENNANTI, in Megalomorphic Shell. Janjukian. 



Bird Rock Cliffs, Torquay, Vi< toria. 



2. DITTO, normal type. Balcombian. Muddy Creek, near Hamilton, Vii 



and land the Miocene fauna and flora were then very abundant 

 and varied in character. It was during these flourishing times 

 that the earlier and often smaller types of shell-fish, as well as 



