120 PALEONTOLOGICAL EVIDENCE OF 
nian and Crag facies to the Australian corals as a whole, we RT 
here are no recent species in the seas around.” But Id 
think that we are quite without the recent species, as far as a can 
judge from an examination of many undescribed forms in the 
ot mistaken, in the Macleayan museum, from the East coast 
furth can adds—* Forming a large proportion 
of the fossil fauna, the Balanophyllie stamps the deposits with a 
definite character gards the at which they occurred, 
and this is rendered almost certain by the bathymetrical dispo- 
sition of the genera Caryophyllia, F oe © Zao Spheno 
trochus, and Amphihe lia ‘alun 
tain vast quantities of Balanophyllia (not Oe ee a Plabellom, 
a Sphenotrochus, and there, as in the Australian Tertiaries, every 
gradation of sea depth, from the abyss to low spring tide mark, is 
represented by species.” (Quart. Jour. Geol. Soc., 1870, p. 310.) 
With reference to this I must remark that our corals have 
been collected from beds widely apart, and evidently — 
under different conditions. That where Caryophyllie, Spheno- 
trochi, and Flabellum occur we have few or no Balanophyllig. 
ania. But we ha 
remarkable species of branching or ree ef-form ming corals; all the 
others oo being solitary, turbinate, and for the most of 
the genera free. Such forms as Dendro phyllia, magico and 
Phtnactrc, make their appearance in Wantieti a icative, 
eer These — no doubt, grow in a sea sof a. 
: 0 cks. 
Dune., Q. Jour. Geo. Soc., rele p. 343.) Both these genera 5 had, 
