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  PROCEEDINGS 
  OF 
  THE 
  MALACOLOGICAL 
  SOCIETY. 
  

  

  whicli 
  McCoy 
  identified 
  as 
  Lower 
  Pliocene, 
  an 
  age 
  which 
  has 
  been 
  

   since 
  adopted 
  by 
  Mr. 
  F. 
  Chapman 
  for 
  those 
  beds, 
  although 
  it 
  is 
  only 
  

   ri^ht 
  to 
  mention 
  that 
  the 
  Kalimnan 
  deposits 
  were 
  formerly 
  regarded 
  

   as 
  Miocene 
  by 
  Messrs. 
  Tate 
  & 
  Dennant 
  ' 
  and 
  Hall 
  & 
  Pritchard.' 
  

   One 
  of 
  the 
  most 
  important 
  members 
  of 
  the 
  Kalimnan 
  fauna 
  is 
  

   undoubtedly 
  that 
  of 
  Scaldicetus 
  macgeei, 
  desciibed 
  by 
  Mr. 
  Chapman 
  ^ 
  

   in 
  1912. 
  That 
  genus, 
  belonging 
  to 
  tlie 
  Sperm 
  Whale 
  group 
  of 
  

   Cetaceans, 
  was 
  originally 
  discovered 
  in 
  the 
  ''Crag 
  !Noir 
  " 
  lieds 
  of 
  

   Belgium 
  (Borgerhout), 
  which 
  are 
  recognized 
  as 
  belonging 
  to 
  the 
  

   Anversiau^ 
  or 
  uppermost 
  Miocene, 
  sometimes 
  called 
  Pontian 
  or 
  

   Messinian. 
  The 
  association 
  also 
  in 
  the 
  Kalimnan 
  Beds 
  of 
  Carcharodon 
  

   meyalodon, 
  the 
  well-known 
  Selachian 
  fish 
  of 
  Miocene 
  origin, 
  adds 
  to 
  

   the 
  assemblage, 
  and 
  certainly 
  seems 
  to 
  suggest 
  that 
  those 
  deposits 
  

   may 
  be 
  Miocene 
  rather 
  than 
  Pliocene. 
  With 
  regard 
  to 
  the 
  presence 
  

   of 
  Oligocene 
  in 
  Victoria, 
  first 
  suggested 
  by 
  IMcCoy, 
  the 
  writer 
  is 
  still 
  

   %i 
  opinion 
  that 
  such 
  beds 
  containing 
  no 
  Nummulites, 
  but 
  numerous 
  

   Amphistegina 
  and 
  Lepidocyclina, 
  belong 
  to 
  the 
  oldest 
  Miocene, 
  which 
  

   in 
  Kurope 
  are 
  included 
  in 
  the 
  Aquitanian 
  and 
  Burdigalian 
  stages 
  of 
  

   that 
  period. 
  This 
  Cephalopod, 
  therefore, 
  occurs 
  in 
  eacli 
  division 
  of 
  the 
  

   Victorian 
  Tertiaries, 
  known 
  as 
  Kalimnan, 
  Janjukian, 
  andBalcombian, 
  

   the 
  last 
  named 
  being 
  the 
  oldest. 
  The 
  foraminiferal 
  evidence 
  

   worked 
  out 
  by 
  Mr. 
  Chapman 
  furnishes 
  complete 
  data 
  that 
  the 
  

   Balcombian 
  division 
  is 
  homotaxially 
  equivalent 
  to 
  the 
  A(iuitanian 
  

   and 
  the 
  Janjukian 
  to 
  the 
  Burdigalian, 
  both 
  of 
  which 
  groups 
  form 
  

   the 
  hasal 
  stages 
  of 
  the 
  European 
  Miocene. 
  The 
  Kalimnan 
  series, 
  

   therefore, 
  may 
  represent 
  the 
  latest 
  phase 
  of 
  the 
  Miocene 
  in 
  

   Australia, 
  and 
  comparalde 
  to 
  the 
  Pontian 
  or 
  Messinian 
  of 
  Europe. 
  

  

  Distribution 
  of 
  Aturia 
  aturi. 
  

  

  MIOCENE. 
  

   European 
  Stages. 
  j 
  Probably 
  Kalimnan 
  Series 
  of 
  Southern 
  

  

  Messinian 
  > 
  Australia, 
  hitherto 
  regarded 
  as 
  

  

  or 
  Pontian 
  ) 
  Lower 
  Pliocene. 
  

  

  Vindobonian 
  

   (Helvetian-Tortonian) 
  

   \ 
  

  

  Austria 
  and 
  Malta 
  

  

  Burdi<i;alian 
  and 
  

  

  Western 
  Australia 
  (Plantagenet 
  Beds); 
  

  

  Southern 
  Australia 
  (Janjukian 
  and 
  

  

  Balcombian 
  Series) 
  ; 
  Tasmania 
  

  

  a^...L.ii,aiici.. 
  ....^1 
  I 
  (Table 
  Cape 
  Beds): 
  IS'ew 
  Zealand 
  

  

  Aquitanian 
  [ 
  )r\ 
  tj 
  i 
  \ 
  a 
  ii 
  a 
  

  

  •^ 
  I 
  (Uamaru 
  Beds) 
  ; 
  South 
  America 
  

  

  (Navidad 
  Beds 
  of 
  Chili); 
  Mada- 
  

   gascar; 
  Egypt; 
  France 
  ami 
  Italy. 
  

  

  In 
  offeiiug 
  these 
  lemarks 
  on 
  the 
  correlation 
  of 
  tie 
  Anstialian 
  

   Tertiaries, 
  the 
  author 
  wishes 
  to 
  acknowledi'e 
  his 
  indebtedness 
  to 
  

  

  ' 
  Trans. 
  R. 
  Soc. 
  S. 
  Australia, 
  vol. 
  xvii, 
  1893, 
  p. 
  216. 
  

  

  '^ 
  Proc. 
  R. 
  Soc. 
  Victoria, 
  vol. 
  xiv, 
  N.S., 
  1902, 
  pp. 
  75-81. 
  

  

  ' 
  Rec. 
  Geol. 
  Surv. 
  Victoria, 
  vol. 
  iii, 
  ]912, 
  pp. 
  236-8, 
  pi. 
  xl. 
  

  

  * 
  See 
  Van 
  den 
  Broeck, 
  Ann, 
  Soc. 
  Mai. 
  Belgique, 
  vol. 
  ix, 
  1874, 
  p. 
  151. 
  

  

  