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Etheridge (1920) from the Rolling Downs beds of Queensland, These 
rocks are termed the Awanui or East Coast series, and with them we may 
perhaps group the Manaia series of greywackes and conglomerates in the 
Coromandel Peninsula. The East Coast series are believed y Mr. Morgan 
nopsis sp. Haug (1911) reports the occurrence of these forms also, but 
most probable names to figured and provisionally determined fossils. In 
northern and south-western New Guinea the same series appears to extend. 
Boehm (1906) places the formations as ranging from Callovian to Lower 
Cretaceous, and has determined a number of better-preserved fossils. Of 
these, Macrocephalites keeuwensis a and М. keeuwensis B—y are believed 
to be the equivalents respectively of the first two of the above list of 
forms determined by Etheridge (Boehm, 1913).  Phylloceras, Stephano- 
ceras, Sphaeroceras, Perisphinctes, Hoplites, Oppelia, Hamites (?), Belemnites 
Posidonomya (?), Inoceramus, and Rhynchonella aff. moluccana are also 
ards into the Sula Islands, Buru, , Timor, and Rotti, thus 
surrounding the Banda Sea. In these there is an indication of a dis- 
tinetively equatorial sea of about Callovian age, extension of the 
nized twenty European species with nine new forms, and considered the 
beds to be of Oolitic age. Crick (1894), as a result of his examination 
of the cephalopods, considered the beds as belonging to the Lower Oolitic 
period. He recognized species of Stephanoceras, Dorsetensia, Perisphinctes, 
and also Belemnites canaliculatus. Chapman (1904) supported this. Boehm 
(1907) remarked that the fauna was mid-European in its facies, and 
considered it to have been deposited in the Callovian extension of the 
equatorial Tethys. Haug (1911, p. 1045) believed the Bajocian and Callovian 
strata were represented here. Etheridge (1910) added a few more European 
forms to the list of Western Australian forms, which was completely 
tabulated by Glauert in the same year. Trechmann and Spath have noted 
* Kepplerites calloviensis, according to Haug (1911). 
