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Australia, on pala?ontological evidence, by Professor M'Coy, 

 who, in 1865, described a small collection of fossils made by 

 Messrs Sutherland and Carson on the Flinders Eiver.* These 

 were described in 1866 and subsequently,-]- and numbered in 

 all eight species, three of Reptilia, three Cephalopoda — Am- 

 monites Flindersi (M'Coy), BeUmnitella diptycha (M'Coy) ; 

 and Ancyloceras Flindersi (M'Coy) — and two Bivalves — Ino- 

 ceramus Carsoni (M'Coy), and /. Sutherlandi (M'Coy). Not- 

 withstanding that Professor M'Coy was the first to indicate 

 the presence of cretaceous rocks in Australia, with any cer- 

 tainty, it is nevertheless certain that Mr F. T. Gregory was 

 the first to collect qretaceous fossils, as we learn from Mr 

 Charles Moore, F.G.S.j (who examined Mr Gregory's collec- 

 tion), that a chalk ammonite was present amongst the fossils 

 from Western Australia, sent by Mr Gregory. 



Mr Moore supplemented M'Coy's list by a new species of 

 Crioceras, 0. Australe (Moore), § from the Upper Maranoa 

 District in Queensland, and to these my father added || a 

 large and interesting series of cretaceous fossils collected by 

 Mr Daintree from Maryborough, Hugh end en Station, Mara- 

 thon Station, and Flinders Eiver. Another collection is 

 referred to, IT although not described, made by Mr W. Hann, 

 and derived from the Bowen Downs, head of the Thompson 

 and the Barcoo Eiver beds. 



The immense extent of the Queensland cretaceous rocks is 

 well shown on Mr Daintree's map, attached to his paper pre- 

 viously quoted, extending as they do from lat. 18° S. to lat. 

 29° S. 



In his " First Sketch of a Geological Map of Australia," ** 

 Mr E. B. Smyth dismisses the cretaceous and other secondary 

 formations of Australia and their fossils in a very uncere- 

 monious manner. After quoting the limited number of 

 species, described at various times by Professor M'Coy, from 



* Annals Nat. Hist., 1865, xvi., p. 333; Trans. Eoy. Soc. Vict, 1866, 

 vii., p. 49. 



+ For Bibliography see list of papers appended to this Report, and my 

 *' Catalogue of Australian Fossils." 



t Quart. Jour. Geol. Soc., xxvi., p. 227. § Loc. ciL, p. 257. 



II Quart. Jour. Geol. Soc, xxviii., pp. 338-346. H Loc. ciL, p. 348. 



** Geol. Survey Vict, Progress Report for the Year 1876, iii., pp. 45-67. 



