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Murchisonia, Strophomena, and Spirifera of various species, 
some like Devonian. Loxonema is known to me as occurring 
in the lower marine beds of the Hunter river basin—certainly 
below the upper coal beds, 
here appears to be an intermixture, and such is the case 
With certain strata to the westward of W ellington, in which 
In Victoria, near Mount Tambo, in Gipps Land, and again 
near the head of' the Murray, there are som e limestone beds 
with fossils, which I visited in 1851, and shes believed to be 
of the same age as the lowest Carboniferous rocks of New 
South Wales. The Victorian geologists consider them Devonian. 
In Queensland, the Burn at tase and tracts about the Bowen 
Gold Feld and Burdekin er which river limestones with fossils 
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with Trilobites which appear to be older than Carboniferous. 
But, if Mr. Jukes’s arrangement holds good these will probably 
be placed i in the latter formation, On the western flanks of the 
. Cordillera, near Yass, and on the eastern, along the Shoalhaven 
river, and again near the Hanging Bock, New South Wales 
presents numerous bands of limestone full ‘of such fossils ; ; and 
it may be doubtful at present whether these lie on the horizon 
of the Devonian, or whether they belong to some portion fe the 
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the coal beds at the head of the river. Near iphrran ao ie 
Lepidodendron has been found in ened rock 
origin. At Canoona Gold Field, in _ oar Lepidodendon 
occurs i shales ; and at noo noo, on the 
Peel river, in cig South Wales, it occurs in fine grey als 
stone, with Ferns and Sigillaria in close es a beds — 
marine fossils which are certainly ower Unehomifeto si 
Besides these fossiliferous pes os ‘of supposed 
