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WaiJiao Limestone. 



Oarcharodon angustidens, Ag. 



Waldbeimia lenticularis, Beshayes. 



Eupatagus Grayi, Hutton, I. c. p. 41 ; also found in the Cobden limestone. 



Macropueustes (?) spatangiformis, Hutton. 



Graphularia (?) senescens, Tate. 



In " Chalk- marls " below the limestoue are the following : — 



Pecten Zittelli, Hutton. 



Spbenotrochus Huttonianus, Tenison- Woods. 



Here the Echinoderms are different from those of the Curiosity 

 Shop and Weka pass, but one of them is found in the Ototara lime- 

 stone ; and, as the beds are underlain by rocks containing the Pecten 

 Zittelli and Splienotroclius Huttonianus of the Weka-pass stone, they 

 cannot be looked upon as indicating a greater age. 



In Marly Greensands below the Limestones. 

 At Maerewhenua : — 



Cetacean bones. 

 At Wharekauri : — 



jSTautilus danicas, lyOrh. (?)* 



Harpactocai'cinus tumidus, H. Woodward, Quart. Journ. G-eol. Soc. 

 vol. xxxii. p. 71 ; found also at Brighton, and at Double Corner, IST. Can- 

 terbury. 



At Waihao : — 



Aturia ziczac, var. australis, M^Coy. 

 Pleurotoma, sp., like Pareora forms. 

 Limopsis, sp., Hke P. aurita, an Upper Eocene and Miocene form. 



Here we have certainly a Cretaceous species in Nautilus danicus,. 

 but it is doubtfully identified by Mr. M'^Kay, and is probably the 

 ventricose form of A. ziczac. 



In the Island Sandstone at Black Point. 



Aneyloceras (?), sp., Hector, Geol. Eep. 1876-7, p. x. 

 BacuHtes (?), sp., Hector, I. c. 

 Belemnites (?), sp.. Hector, I. c. 



Here also we get Cretaceous Cephalopoda, but all are doubtfully 

 determined. Mr. M'^Kay kindly showed me these fossils in the 

 Wellington Museum. There is, I believe, but one form. It is a 

 smaU, delicate, straight shell, slightly tapering, with rather close, 

 well-marked, transverse ribs (like Tentacidites). It looks like a 

 Cephalopod, but no section has been made. The siphon is said to 

 be marginal ; but it is obscure, and I could not satisfy myself of its 

 ■presence. There is no external appearance of lobed or foliated septa. 



* Mr. M<=Kay informs me that this is the same as his so-called Ammonite 

 from near Greymouth, Geol. Rep. 1873-4, v>. 81. 



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