RELATIONSHIPS OF THE AUSTRALIAN CAINOZOIC SYSTEM. 
also include the occurrences from the Newport Bores. Above the 
calcareous clays there are alternating bands of ferruginous 
clays and sands, which afford strong evidence of belonging to the 
Janjukian series of the Corio Bay marly facies ; since from these beds 
Messrs. J. §. Green and W. J. Parr have obtained many fine examples 
of the large Magellanias characteristic of the beds at Corio Bay, 
which crop out to the south-west at the locality named. As 
collecting on the spoil-heaps from these borings has been done 
somewhat indiscriminately, it is possible that the published lists of 
fossils from these localities may include some forms which are not 
actually from the Balcombian series. 
In the report of Messrs. Thiele and Grant it is stated that this 
“cream-coloured sandy clay, with nodules of yellow limestone 
is very full of foraminifera (largely of the genus Operculina), 
and contains a fair number of brachiopods, but few gastropods or 
lamellibranchs.” The brachiopods were not included in eri 
list.* They also noted the uppermost bed as consisting of ‘ 
coarse ferruginous grit,” in which they “ failed to find any ater: 
of fossils.” In all probability this bed is the equivalent of the 
marine Kalimnan series of Brighton and Beaumaris and the subaerial 
sands of the Melbourne district. 
Crossing again to the eastern side of Port Philip, and on the 
Melbourne side of Frankston, the cliffs im the neighbourhood of 
Beaumaris are mainly composed of the Kalimnan beds, consisting 
of ferruginous clays and sands, which contain typical Kalimnan 
fossils, as Limopsis beaumariensis and Trigonia margaritacea, var. 
acuticostata. On the foreshore may be commonly found teeth of 
sharks, many of which are common also to the nodule bed seen at 
the Grange Burn and on Muddy Creek ; and which by their position 
there are seen to form the basal bed at Macdonald’s and Forsyth’s. 
Although the beds on the foreshore at Beaumaris are covered by a 
thick deposit of shingle, it has been proved that, by sinking a shaft 
for a few feet, the basal nodule bed is exposed im situ. By a 
comparison with the beds of the Hamilton district it is evident that 
the rolled fossils of the nodule bed constitute a remanié fauna, 
whilst the surrounding clay contains indigenous Kalimnan fossils. 
B.—Flinders. 
An interesting little patch of polyzoal limestone is found on the 
coast at Flinders, resting on the older basalt. The hmestone has 
evidently been deposited in an eroded hollow on the surface of the 
lava,t and it has a maximum thickness of about 20 feet. The 
fossils contained in this friable limestone show unmistakeable 
affinities with the Cainozoics of the Moorabool Valley and Curlewis, 
* Proc. Roy. Soc. Vict., vol. xiv., pt. 1, 1901, p. 145. 
+ See also Kitson. Rec. Geol. Surv. Vict., vol. i., pt. 1, 1902, p. 49. 
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