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believed by Tate and Dennant to be the component formations of one 

 series] : Lower Pliocene. Marine beds — Near Flemington; Mio- 

 cene — Bird Rock, Boggy Creek near Sale, Bairnsdale, coastline 

 from Princetown, at Curdies River, Cobden, Maude ; Oligocene — 

 Schnapper Point, Princetown, near mouth of Gellibrand River, 

 near mouth of Aire River, at Cape Otway. 



1878. Tate (Trans. Roy. Soc. S. Aust., vol. i., pp. 90-97 and 

 120) divides the Older Tertiary of the Aldinga and River Murray 

 Cliffs into two series. Eocene and Miocene. 



1880. Hector, Sir James (Proc. Roy. Soc, N.S.W.,vol. xiii., 

 p. 70 et seq.j, correlates the Schnapper Point, Murray River, and 

 Table Cape beds, with the Oamaru Series of New Zealand (Upper 

 Eocene); the beds at Portland with Pareora beds (Lower Miocene); 

 and the limestones of the Great Australian Bight with the 

 Wanganui and the Awatere beds (Upper Miocene). 



1888. Johnston, R. M. ("Geology, Tasmania"), places the 

 marine Older Tertiary of Victoria — Cape Schank, Bird Rock, 

 Muddy Creek — and that of the River Murray Cliffs as the 

 equivalents of the Table Cape beds (Eocene). 



1889. Dennant, J. (Trans. Roy. Soc, S. Aust., vol. vi., p. 30, 

 et seq.J, recognises two separate zones in the Muddy Creek beds, 

 and correlates the older with the Schnapper Point clays. 



1889. CossMANN, M. (L'Annuaire Geol. Universelle), declares 

 that the Gasteropod fauna of the Older Tertiary of Australia has 

 incontestable analogy with that of the Paris basin. 



Miocene. 

 1874. McCoy (Geol. Surv. Vict. Report 2, p. 72) places the 

 fossiliferous beds at Jemmy's Point, Gippsland Lakes, on the 

 horizon of Pliocene, and, as the equivalent of the Wanganui 

 series of New Zealand. Howitt fid. p. 60) uses the phrase Upper 

 Tertiary. 



1890. Dennant, J. (Proc. Roy. Soc, Vict., p. 53, et seq.J, 

 correlates the strata at Jemmy's Point with the younger series 

 (Miocene) at Muddy Creek. 



For other references, see vmder " Eocene." 



Older Pliocene. 

 1890. Tate (Trans. Roy. Soc, S. Aust., vol. xiii., pp. 172- 

 184) elaborates a fauna from strata passed through in the Dry 

 Creek and Croydon bores, near Adelaide. He regards it as 

 younger than Miocene, and provisionally calls it Older Pliocene. 



