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brown clay and sandy shale. Resting on the yellow rubbly marl just 



Ossiferous ted at Sam- at the village is a small patch of rusty^ ferruginous, 



ossiferous conglomerate containing chalky clay 



nodules. In this were found reptilian, (? tortoise), plates, and a number 



of large bones, among which were two fine molar teeth of Binotherium. 



Less fossiliferous portions of the same bed occur sparingly in the 

 neighbourhood. 



In the country south of this, the northerly dip just now mentioned 



seems to form a portion of a broad anticlinal curve. 

 Arenaceous group. 



bringing up arenaceous leaf-bearing beds, appar- 

 ently a larger development of the band overlying the nummulitic 

 group. 



Where the Mhurr river crosses these beds between the villages of 

 Jungreea and Joonagea, its high banks expose a great thickness of light 

 coloured yellow, pale blue, and brown sands, containing thin dusty 

 laminse with impressions of large smooth leaves, so fragile that good 

 specimens could not be taken ; among these beds are several ferruginous 

 conglomeratic bands. The beds undulate with a general dip to the 

 north, and are succeeded by the fossiliferous group, including a rubbly bed 

 full of Nucula. 



Another containing Turritellts and some rubbly calcareous shelly 

 sandstones and shales, with a Placuna bed, broken rib-bones, Natica, large 

 Solen ?, Nucula, Turritellce, {T. angulata and another), &c., and little 

 crabs often enclosed in hard clay nodules. 



Some compact calcareous sandstone caps a hillock called ' Aio-bett' 



south of the village of Bootta. The 'betf is 

 Bootta. 



formed of soft, sandy, and argillaceous shales with 

 thin yellow compact layers and a strong highly ferruginous lateritic 

 band. In one of the small rain channels on its side, some large mam- 

 malian bones were found apparently washed out of the adjacent beds. 



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