120 Coal- Seams of Van Diemen's Land. 



We then come on a small section, 20 or 30 yards in 

 length, where the clay-rock is exposed, the beds still dipping 

 as at New Norfolk (W. 20" S.) about 5° ; and, rising 

 apparently conformably from underneath them, we find a 

 series of limestones, shales, and calcareous sandstones, many 

 of the beds being almost entirely composed of fossil shells 

 and corals. 



These beds have been worked along the road-side for a 

 considerable distance, and burnt for lime. 



In the quarries I found the following fossils, examined 

 and named by Professor M'Coy of the Melbourne 

 University. 



Plants : — 



Pecopteris, fragments of an undetermined species allied 

 to P. odontopteroides. 



Bryozoa : — ■ 



Fenestella internata. 



fossula. 



Polyparia ampla. 

 Stenopera Tasmaniensis. 



MOLLUSCA : — 



Leminula biundata. 

 Productus brachythyrus. 

 Spirifer subradiata. 



duodecimcostata. 



vespertilio. 



Darwinii. 



Aviculo-Pecten Tasmaniensis. 

 Sanguinolites, doubtful sp. 

 Eurydesma cordata. 

 Plolyschisma (doubtful) fragments, 

 These fossiliferous beds extend to within about two miles 



