Cretaceous Fossils in Australia. 49 



Length of bones of middle toe from os cuneiform to extremity 



oftlietoe 



Do., do., left 



Length of great toe from do., right side 



Do., do., left side 



THE HAND. 



Length of the hand, from the carpal bones to the extremity of 



the middle finger 9 ^ >ji 



Length of thumb 4 q 



71.. 



6 



7i.. 



— 



41... 



H 



— .. 



4 



Abt. IY. — On the Discovery of Cretaceous Fossils in 

 Australia. By Fredeeick M'Coy, Professor of Natural 

 Science in the University of Melbourne, Government 

 Palaeontologist, and Director of the National Museum 

 of Victoria, &c. 



[Abstract.] 



The author stated that he had recently received a smaU 

 collection of geological specimens, obtained by Mr. Suther- 

 land and Mr. David Carson, of Collins-street, Melbourne, on 

 the surface of a run on the western bank of the Flinders 

 river, at the base of Walker's Table Mountains, in lat. 21° 13', 

 long. 143°, and presented by those gentlemen to the collec- 

 tion of the National Museum. The matrix is an olive 

 calcareo-argillaceous marl. 



The specimens included, besides the vertebi^se of a very 

 large teleosteous fish, which it was not possible to 

 determine without further parts, two distinct species 

 of the well-known cretaceous genus Inocerainus, with 

 very thick coarse fibrous shells, Ammonites, and a few 

 other remains, which, taken together, enabled Professor 

 M'Coy to announce for the first time with certainty the 

 existence of the Cretaceous formations in Australia. Mr. 

 Gregory doubtfully indicated cretaceous fossils in Mt. 30° 15', 

 in his last paper to the Geological Society, but without any 

 generic or specific recognition of fossils of that age. His 

 materials were, unfortunately,* sent home, instead of being 

 kept for comparison in the local collections in this country, 

 and they have not been described or definitely identified 



