PERMO-CAKBONIFEROUS FOSSILS FROM BANANA. 



By FREDERICK BENNETT. 



[Read before the Koijal Societij of Queensland, April 20, 1895.] 



[Abstract.] 

 Some time ago Mr. Herbert Mackay presented to Mr. De Vis a 

 collection of fossils from Banana Creek, on the strength of which, 

 and a collection by Daintree from Cracow Creek, it was inferred 

 that a belt of the Middle Bowen formation occurred on the right 

 bank of the Dawson. Mr. Bennett gave the results of a journey 

 undertaken with the object of re-discovering (with the help of 

 notes from Mr. Mackay) the locality from which the fossils were 

 derived, and tracing the line of demarcation between the Bowen 

 and the Gympie formations. Mr. Bennett succeeded in the 

 former part of his quest, and obtained a number of additional 

 fossils, and also discovered other fossiliferous localities in the 

 neighbourhood. From Mr. Mackay's locality — namely, the 

 limestone on Big Sandy Creek (the head of Banana Creek) Mr. 

 Bennett obtained Zaphrentis, Spirifera, and Productus ; and 

 from quartzite blocks on Banana Creek and its tributaries north 

 of the limestone, Avicuiopecten, Fenestella, Frotoretepora, Steno- 

 pora, and Zaphrentis. The assemblage of fossils (inclusive of 

 Mr. Mackay's) indicated that the whole belonged to the Gympie 

 rather than the Bowen formation. No formation of undoubted 

 Middle Bowen age was observed. 



In the discussion which followed, Mr. Jack said the infer- 

 ence on which the presence of the Bowen formation was based 

 was justifiable from the evidence formerly to hand, but Mr. 

 Bennett had rendered an important service in extending our 

 knowledge of the fossil fauna with the result of making it very 



