156 FISH-REMAINS FROM ''ROLLING DOWNS FORMATION" OF N.Q., 



PAPERS READ. 



DESCRIPTION OF FISH-REMAINS FROM THE "ROL- 

 LING DOWNS FORMATION" OF NORTHERN 

 QUEENSLAND. 



By R. Etheridge, Junr. 



palieontologist to the australian museum, and geological 

 Survey of New South Wales. 



(Plate IV.) 



The remains of fish in tlie Mesozoic i-ocks of Eastern Aus- 

 tralia have hitherto been recorded, with two trivial exceptions, 

 from the lower members of that great series only, locally known 

 as the Hawkesbury-Wianamatta Gi'oup. The exceptions referred 

 to are the occurrence of teeth and scales in the concretionary 

 blocks of Wolumbilla, Central Queensland, mentioned by the late 

 Mr. Chai'les Moore*, and referred to the genus Leindotus; and the 

 remains of an Aspidorhynchus^ , found by my father amongst the 

 gatherings of the late Mr. Richard Daintree, the first Government 

 Geologist of Queensland. 



The recent surveys and explorations of my friend and former 

 colleague, Mr. R. L. Jack, F.R.(t.S., &c., have brought to light a 

 large and most valuable store of organic remains from strata of 

 all ages throughout Queensland. Not the least interesting are 

 those from that immense stretch of rocks denominated by Mr. Jack 

 the " Rolling Downs Formation," running with slight interruption 



* Quart. Journ. Geol. Soc. XXVI. p. 238. 

 t Quart. Journ. Geol. Soc. XXVIII. p. 346. 



