112 DEVONIAN FOSSILS 
Sandy's Creek form belongs to L. australis. The holotype is rather 
an inadequate specimen, but better topotype material has not yet 
been found to enable a fuller description of the species. 
In the National Museum collection (reg. no. 1569) there is a 
similar form of Loxonema from “‘Griffith’s Kiln, 7 miles south 
of Mansfield,” i.e., Loyola. The specimen was presented by Mr. 
E. O. Thiele. The Loyola locality is also a Yeringian one (Lower 
Devonian). The North American forms L. hamiltoniae Hall and 
L. delphicola Hall, both of Hamilton age, are of similar type to 
L. australis. 
2Ceratiocarid telson 
РІ. III, Fig. 13. 
On specimen 27,226 from locality G 24 is a fossil of uncertain 
affinities. It may well be the telson of a large ceratiocarid. Its 
length is 8-8 em. and its width 6-5 mm. at one end and 1-5 mm. at 
the other. The fossil is a smooth steinkern, not quite complete. 
The line down the length of the spine is a fracture such as would 
be expected with the crushing of a hollow structure of this shape. 
The flattening exaggerates the natural width at the wide end. The 
fossil appears to have been originally of oval cross-section, and in 
this it differs from any eurypterid spine I have seen. The broken 
wide end suggests a broken-off spine. However, the possibility of 
the fossil being a particularly large Coleolus type of shell, for 
instance, cannot be dismissed, but no sign of the ornamentation 
common with such forms is in evidence. Shells of the Coleolus 
type are common in Lower Devonian beds in Victoria, but are 
always comparatively small. 
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS 
The author is indebted to Dr. D. E. Thomas, Chief Geologist, 
and Mr. W. Baragwanath, Geological Consultant of the Mines 
Department of Victoria, for the opportunity to study the Sandy’s 
Creek fossils, and for the map which appears herein as Fig. 1. 
Likewise my thanks to Mr. L. A. Baillót, of the Melbourne Tech- 
nical College, who took the photographs appearing in Plates 11 
and III. 
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l’Ardenne. Mém. Mus. Hist. Nat. Belg., 41. 
1931. Sur 1'identité de Spirifer dwmontianus de Koninck et de Quadrifarius 
loculatus Fuchs. Bull. Mus. Hist. Nat. Belg., 7, No. 20. 
Caster, K. E., 1939. A Devonian Fauna from Columbia. Bull. Amer. Paleont., 
Vol, 24, No. 83. 
