534 | Transactions. 
Prelimanary Note on the Clifden Beds. 
Ву H. J. Finuay, M.Sc., Edmond Fellow of Otago University, and 
Е. Н. McDowazr, М.8е., A.I.C. 
[Read before the Otago Institute, 11th December, 1923 ; received by Editor, 31st December, 
1923 ; issued separately, 30th July, 1924.] 
Ix 1921 Professor Park* published a brief account of some Tertiary localities 
in Southland. The most important of these so far known is at Clifden, 
fossils anywhere." Accordingly a visit was made to this locality in the 
hope that it might prove of interest, and the results have already far 
exceeded expectations. 
The beds are sometimes a little difficult of access, but the fossil forms 
obtainable are so new and magnificent, and their preservation so fine, that 
the labour is well spent. Some four hundred species are now in hand, the 
alan 
ark has grouped the basal concretionary plant-beds in the Waiarekan ; 
the limestone and overlying glauconitic sandstone in the Ototaran; the 
four following highly fossilferous sand beds in the Hutchinsonian; and 
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classification, and it is possible that the fossiliferous beds should be placed 
in a Mies horizon, Much confusion has already resulted in New Zea- 
age seems to admit of only two solutions—i.e., the fossiliferous sands 
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the same, though most of the species are diff : | 
Zealand, where there are Xy еч ES EUER мом юле 
adjacent horizons.) Though reasons may be inv 
possibility, it would, if adopted, allow of unlimited 
* J. PARE, Geo d Mi $ 
Bull, Хо, 23 (ue), 987 a0 Мілега] Resources of Western Southland, N.Z. Geol. Surv. 
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