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The same sorts of ferruginous beds as occur near Burrooria contain 

 large bivalve shells and Ammonites, and in more shaly beds above these are 

 Trigonice, a small Alaria, a large flat bivalve^ four inches across (<' Astarte), 

 some Gryphma, and through these and the ferruginous red beds scattered 

 fragments of Bepiilian bones. These being generally in a bad state of 

 preservation were not determinable. The anterior extremity of the 

 lower jaw of a Crocodilian with nine of the tooth-cavities remaining was 

 found among the stones in the Dorawa stream^ and comparing its mot- 

 tled ferruginous matrix with the rocks in the banks for some distance 

 above the spot led so far to something like an identification of its 

 original bed^ that other small and obscure fragments of bone were 

 foundj but it was impossible to say from what spot this rolled fragment 

 camCj nor could any other portions of the same skull be discovered. 



These bone-containing beds rest upon alternations of wliite yel- 

 lowish and pale red ferruginous sandstone, some slightly calcareous, and 

 thick, soft purplish beds with harder lumps standing out from their 

 weathered surface, all dipping to the north-north-west. 



Overlying these with a low dip to the northward are the white and 

 lateritie beds of the sub-nummulitic group, appearing, as usual, at the 

 edge of the alluvium, their unconformity not being apparent here. 



In a nullah near the road from Kurkooe to Chobaree thin 

 reddish sandstones separated by shale partings rest 



Kurkooe to Chobaree. r- i i i i ■ 



upon dark-gray felted lookmg shale with obscure 

 plant fragments and minute bivalve shells, in hsematitic or holey layers 

 of deep red colour. The laminae of the shales are marked by bright 

 yellow films and the red beds have saline efflorescences ; the lowest beds 

 of all containing much gypsum. 



To the east of Chobaree the beds are somewhat contorted near the 

 base of hills, forming synclinals, with short axes having east and west 

 directions. 



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