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Geelong. beds, such as Cucullea corioensis, P. yahlensis, 
(Tenison- Woods) ; Cassidaria reticulospira (Coy); ‘Pacotrochus 
deltoideus (Dun 
Not very ee go it would’ have been difficult to name many 
of the fossils found in this immense series of deposits, but since 
the labours of M‘Co ube, Duncan, eridge, al re- 
ferred -. ane my own humble efforts, so large a number of the 
organic a ranged and classified that it would 
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ubliah pone, hone in the fates a list of the names, 
oak and exact references where they may be found, as an 
d to paleontological researches, which is very much required. 
“Tn Pasmanin we find the same deposits, but under different 
iealilions: The matrix is rather a muddy gravel than clay, and 
contains fragments of what are mR BS A the remains of a 
rock. There are also an immense number of rounded quartz 
grains, and the whol formation mone the proximity of some 
eranitic and basaltic rocky shore. The fossils are not different 
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ninety fossils from those beds, I did not meet half-a-dozen similar 
to those now existing on the ea and those es of shells which 
are now of rare occurrence. atenata (Crosse) is 
a case in point, and one or two wis: are “doubtfully 
pecies in cee a ” — 
Dendrophyllia, two species Denildtg ool very widely from any 
known forms. In Victoria no reef-building coral was found, but 
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— of Trigonia are found, but ee are rather abnormal forms.. 
been discovered at. ‘Table Cape, Tasmania, one almost 
oat skeleton of a wallaby, Halmaturus (?), imbedded in a soft 
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