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Rhaetic and Lower Jurassic beds in New Zealand, and Arber believes the 
genus is represented in the Rhaetic beds of South America and the Jurassic 
of Australia, though Walkom does not concur in regard to the last. It is 
perhaps also represented in the Noric beds of New Caledonia by leaves 
stated by Piroutet (1917) to be “ like Glossopteris." 
Leaving the land area, we return to trace the Australasian coast-line 
(Hauer) was a species of Hoplites (Berriasella). Upper Jurassic marine beds 
underlie the Neocomian plant-beds of the Waikato Heads, and this associa- 
tion, noted by Hochstetter and Cox, has been redescribed by Gilbert (1921). 
n the eastern flanks of the main ranges of the North Island, however, 
the upper portion of the older Mesozoic series is a considerable thickness 
of sparsely fossiliferous greywacke containiag Inoceramus. In the Gisborne 
district these beds have also yielded an obscure species of Turritella which 
appears to resemble (fide Marwick) some forms recently described by 
see and cite from portion of the manuscript of his unpublished paper, from which the 
following facts are culled. i e 
from be ls i ui Hills, in the South Island, apparently transitional between 
the Otapiri and Bastion series of Hector (see table, Benson, 1921, p.99). They contained, 
ith P A іа (?), and Ozytoma, some species of the Hettangian (basal 
as) ammonite Wachneroceras. At a higher horizon in the Bastion beds of the same 
region, the “ Plagiostoma " (Pseudomonotis ?) beds contain ure 
lammellibranchs and Rhynchonellidae with a *'Callovian " 
hynchone lel group u 
with forms of Phylloceras like P. passati and Р. malayanum, descri y Boehm from 
the Oxfordian (Upper-Middle Jurassic) of the Sula Islands. Trechmann’s provisional 
determination, cited by Gilbert (1921), of the fossils in the beds immediately underlying 
the * Neocomian” flora of Waikato Heads, a short distance to the north, shows 
the presence of the lamellibranchs of this group. A higher series of beds in the 
whia Harbour, of Kimmeridgian-Tithonian (Upper Jurassic) age, is characterized 
__ by Streblites ef. motutaranus, Perisphinctes spp., and Belemnites spp., which are also 
: " this fauna from beneath the Neocomian 
.. beds of Waikato Heads suggests the existence of a hiatus in the Jurassic series there 
