150 MESOZOIC FOSSILS FROM THE PALMER RIVER, QUEENSLAND. 
shales, says Mr. Daintree, which crop up under the Desert San¢- . 
stone. Amongst the fossils with which I have to deal are thre — 
or perhaps four species of Cephalopoda all from the Palmer River, — 
and found in nodules as described. ; 4 
He says :—“ Of three species which are in the Australian collection 
sent me by Mr. ©. Moore, the first, a large phragmocone typical of 
the oolitic system (meaning by this the whole series of beds from 
the middle lias to the Kimmeridge clay inclusive), is 55 inches 
long, its greatest diameter 1°75; the section nearly circular. 
Above forty septa can be counted, and the whole number must 
have been fifty without counting the last chamber. The septa are 
internal, its section rather elliptical. The phragmacone is nea 
straight, with an angle o °. Of the guard only @ 
indication of a subcentral axis can be recorded. I cann 
present assign its distinctive characters.” From Wollumbilla 
In many particulars our fossil corresponds with the above, 
e difference will be seen from the following diagnosis :-— 
Belenwnites selheimi, n.s. Pl. 7, fig. 1. Phragmacone extending a 
an angle of 17°, circular, broken at each end ; 100 millim. long, ad a 
millim. at broad end and 15 millim, at narrow end. Chambee — 
—twenty-five in number, slightly oblique, advancing @ little nf 
the dorsal face, and retiring on the ventral, with slight Jater! 
flexure. An obscure carina on the d 
shallow groove for the whole” length. Siphuncle partly cove® 
with matrix, and not very visible. The fragment is shorter that 
that of Professor Phillips, and the chambers are relatively a" 
as there are fewer by fifteen in very nearly the same length, 7 
tions and collections in geology and zoology on the Palmer.) 
ty Aaa specimens from the Palmer River were 00” 
a 
Ammonites olene,n.s. Front view, Pl. 7, fig. 2 ; side view PE : 
is apparel 
natrow, is covered by the matrix ; surface crossed by rather a, 
obtuse sigmoid ribs, which are rather acutely bent in the eo 
