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these there are occasional Brachiopods, Bivalves, joints of 

 Alcyonarians, and ossicles and spines of Echinoderms. 



A similar bed was struck in several of the Victorian 

 mallee bores, where it was seen to be a bed of glauconitic 

 and shelly sand and glauconitic chert. 



A small series of fossils selected from a highly glauconitic 

 bed of this division yielded the following : — 



Foraminifera — Truncatulina ungeriana, d'Orb, sp. 

 Fairly abundant. 



Antho'zoa — Mopsea tenisom, Chapman. The smaller and 

 slenderer joints of this coral are very abundant in 

 the washings. 



Echino'dermata — Cidaroid spines, various; ('^)Antedon, 



ossicle. 

 Polyzoa — Cellaria, sp.; Adeona ohliqua, MacGiHivray ; 



Porina gracilis, Milne-Edwards, sp. ; Steganoporella 



patula, Waters, sp. ; Cellepora gamhierensis, Busk; 



Retepora permunita, MacGiHivray. 



Brachiopoda — Terehratidina catinmliniformis, Tate; 

 Magasella woodsiana, Tate. 



Pelecypoda — Pecten foidcheri, T. Woods (a fragment). 



Pisces — The following fish teeth were collected on the 

 field and handed to the authors, it being understood that all 

 were obtained from Division 2 (the Miocene) of the section, 

 and principally, if not entirely, from. Section A. They are, 

 in nearly all cases, much rolled and often imperfect. The 

 determined species are : — 



Odontaspis elegans, Agassiz, sp. — This widely distributed 

 species is here quite abundant, being represented by about a 

 dozen specimens. It is more commonly met with in the 

 European Miocene and Pliocene than in Australia, and we 

 have never before seen so many specimens of this form from one 

 locality. It occurs in the Eocene and Lower Miocene of New 

 Zealand, and in the Miocene and Lower Pliocene of Victoria. 



Odontaspis incurva, Davis, sp. — This species is here repre- 

 sented by one specimen, nearly perfect, but for the left side 

 of the base being missing. It is fairly common in the 

 Miocene and Lower Pliocene of Victoria, and it has a much 

 more extensive range in New Zealand, where it begins its 

 history in the Upper Cretaceous (Danian) and ranges up to 

 the Lower Miocene. 



Odontaspis exigua, Davis.— This species is here repre- 

 sented by several examples. It is quite a new record for the 

 Australian Tertiary deposits, as hitherto it has only been 

 found in the New Zealand Lower Miocene of the Trelissick 



