282 Reviews—Jack and Etheridge—Geology of Queensland. 
consists almost wholly of shales and sandstones, probably about 
1000 feet in thickness, in which there are numerous plant remains 
as well as Brachiopoda. 
The Flora of the Bowen River series has somewhat of a Mesozoic 
character, for lycopodiaceous plants appear to be altogether absent ; 
in the Middle Division Glossopteris is scantily represented, but in 
the Upper itis abundant. The occurrence of this genus amply con- 
firms the statement that Glossopteris was associated with .Palaeozoic 
marine beds in New South Wales whatever its stratigraphical 
position in other countries might be. 
The marine fauna of the Bowen River series is distinctly Paleeozoic, 
and its Carboniferous facies can be readily recognized; at the same 
time a certain degree of relationship to the Permian is shown by the 
occurrence of forms of Strophalosia, Stenopora, and large Polyzoa 
of the Protoretepora type, and the resemblance of the Producti to 
the R. horridus of the Magnesian Limestone and Zechstein. 
Corals are rare in the Permo-Carboniferous of Queensland, and 
the Rugosa are only represented by a few fragments. The Monticu- 
liporoid genus Stenopora is abundant and four species are described. 
There are three very imperfectly preserved Blastoids, which are 
doubtfully referred to Mesoblastus, Granatocrinus, and Tricelocrinus. 
Phillipsia is represented by two species, and there is also one of 
Griffithides. There are several species of Fenestella, but only casts 
of the zoarium are shown. Several species of Spirifera are present. 
Mr. Etheridge adopts the G. Martiniopsis, Waagen, for the Spirifera 
subradiata of Sowerby, and the G. Derbyia, Waagen, for the Strepto- 
rhyncus crenistria of Phillips. 
The Producti are as a rule badly preserved ; some of the familiar 
British forms are present in the Queensland strata, and they appear 
to be world-wide in their distribution. Species of Strophalosia and 
Chonetes also occur. The Pelecypoda are represented by numerous 
genera, and Mr, Htheridge proposes one new genus, Deltopecten, in 
the family of the Aviculopectinide, McCoy, and another, Merismo- 
pteria, in the family of the Aviculidee. Several genera of Gasteropods, 
Pteropods, and Cephalopods are also present, and a few fish remains, 
doubtfully referred to Deltodus and Palgoniscus, complete the list. 
The Lower Division of the Trias-Jura system, which succeeds 
unconformably the Permo-Carboniferous, consists of sandstones, 
shales and coals of the Burrum Coal-field. The age of these beds 
has been determined mostly by the plants, which show, with the 
exception of Sphenopteris, nothing in common with the plants of the 
underlying Permo-Carboniferous, but exhibit a strong Mesozoic 
facies. 
The Higher Division of the Trias-Jura, or the Ipswich Formation, 
occupies an area of 12,000 square miles in the 8.H. of the colony, 
and consists of conglomerates, sandstones, shales, with numbers of 
coal seams and some limestones. The coal-measures are covered 
with basaltic lava-flows. The fossils recognizable are almost exclu- 
sively those of plants, the only animal remains are a species of 
Listheria, a beetle, and some Unios. 
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