Benson.— Palaeozoic and Mesozoic Seas in Australasia. 39 
Upper oe series in New Zealand. The following table summarizes the 
facts know 
COMPARISON OF UPPER TRIASSIC PALAEONTOLOGICAL ZONES IN NEW 
ZEALAND AND NEW CALEDONIA. 
New Zealand. New Caledonia. 
RHAETIC. 
Arcestes cf, rheticus ; Mentzelia ; Clavigera | Матїпе „Жиза preliminary to orogenic 
|  movem 
Noric, 
Pseudomonotis ochotica (zone locally miss- | Heer agii sp.; cephalopods; Rhyn- 
seudomonotis annaran (abundant, . [жейли "richmondiana (abundant). 
but zone locally missin | 
Spirtferina spp. : <» a еч, ial dente &c.; Pseudo- 
ia cf. rarestriata 
(єї КК чы missing). 
CARNIC, 
тона ее var. zealandica, Н. hoch- | Halobia hochstetteri, H. austriaca ; Spiri- 
stetteri, H. cf. austriaca ; Myophoria and gera wreyi; Disco ; ' Arcestes 
mah aie ue d Spiriferina sp. ; Spirigera spp. 
wreyi ; Halorella sp.; Retzia sp.; oo P gasteropods ; H. hoch- 
Discophyllites sp. ; Arcestes Н. austriaca; Retzia; Halo- 
rella s еденш. 
* Mytilus” problematicus* з в Mytilus ” problematicus. 
Halobia spp. Halobia zitteli, H. spp. 
a: Halorella sp. ; ; | Myophoria sp. ; Halobia sp. 
piriferis 
doe deine d g Daonella indica . Spiriferina cf. fragilis ; Rhynchonella sp. ; 
Terebratula sp. : 
* Myalina? (Maoria?) problematica Wilckens (in MS.), 
It will appear from the above that crust-movement, commencing in 
Rhaetic times, greatly displaced the coast-line in New Caledonia, which 
remained raised above the sea-level until near the close of Jurassic times ; 
while in N 
Jurassic without much permanent geographic change. Near and probably 
west of both these areas of marine deposition there was a land-mass, 
and in the minor fluctuations of the strand-line across the coastal shelf 
there were formed intercalations of fresh-water plant-bearing beds in the 
the forms other than Ж жш are represented in the Malay поду 
Himalayas, or Alps, except Pseudomonotis ochotica, which extends fro 
Timor to Japan and eastern Siberia, and under the name of P. Вст е рот 
is found at intervals down the Pacific Coast as far south as the Republic 
of Colombia. The northern ee prima channel of migration was, there- 
fore, nee during Upper Triassic tim 
Leaving the coastal regions, we те fo consider the pues of ed 
Australasian po dem surface during the Mesozoic times, basing o 
discussion on Dr. Walkom's (1918, &c.) эй work, ре аі 3 
