THE ANNALS 

 MAGAZLNE OF NATUR.\L HISTORY. 



[THIRD SERIES.] 

 No. 81. SEPTEMBER 1864. 



XVI. — A Description of some Fossil Corals and Echinodermt 

 from the South-Australian Tertiaries. By P. Martin Dun- 

 can, M.B. (Ix)nd.), F. & Sec. Geol. Soc. 

 [PUtc* V. & VI.] 

 The interesting simple Corals about to be described came from 

 Muddy Creek and the Murray beds, and the Echinoderms from 

 the latter locality ♦. The forms are more interesting, as yet, 

 zoologically than geologically ; for very little can be determined 

 from them concerning the age of the beds whence they were 

 derived. The great Australian Tertiary formation is not of one 

 ige, but the fossils from Muddy Creek and the Murray give part 

 of it a synchronism with the Lpper Miocene and older Pliocene 

 of Europe, and with the latest Pliocene Coral-beds of the West 

 Indies. Very probably the Tertiaries of Java, described by 

 Mr. Jenkins t, and those whose Echinoderms have been studied 

 by Herklots J, are of the same relative age. 



LAst of Species, 



1. Caryophyllia viola, n. sp. 8. Trochoseris Woodsi, n. sp. 



2. Flabellum Victoriae, n. sp. bryozoon. 



3. Gambierense, n. sp. n r> ^•^ n v.- • u / 



. r. J rj J 9. Cellepora Gambierensis, Jju^A-. 



4. Candeaimm, Edwards *^ 



^ Haitne. echinodermata. 



5. Placotrochus elongatus, n. sp. 10. Hemipatagus Forbesi, Woods 



6. deltoideus, n. sp. ^ Dune. 



7. Balanophyllia Australiensis, 1 1 . Clypeaster folium, var., 



D. sp. Agassiz. 



* Most of the specimens were sent to me by the Rev. J. Woods, of 

 Penoln, the learned author of Geological Obserrations in South Australia ;* 

 several were already in the cabinet of the Geological Society. 



t Quart. Joum. Geol. Soc. vol. xx. p. 45. 



X Echinoderms (Ley den). 



Ann. i^ Mag. N. Hist. Ser. 3. Fo/.iiv. 11 



