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286 F, CHAPMAN. 
Towards this conclusion strong support is rendered by the 
relative abundance of fish remains, as teeth and bone frag- 
ments, occurring scattered throughout the limestone. The 
writer had already drawn attention’ to the possibility of 
such reef-forming foraminifera as Carpenteria which occur 
in coral islands, having been broken up by predatory fishes 
which would find a nutritious pabulum in the protoplasmic 
tests of the larger rhizopods. 
Description of Fossil Remains in the Limestone. 
PLANTA. 
Genus LITHOTHAMNION, Philippi, 1837, emend. Foslie, 
1900. 
LITHOTHAMNION RAMOSISSIMUM, Reuss sp. 
Nullipora ramosissima, Reuss, 1848, Haidinger’s Naturw. 
Abhandl., Vol. 11, pt. ii, p. 29, pl. iii, figs. 10, 11. 
Lithothamnion ramosissium, Rss. sp., Giimbel, 1871, 
Abhandl. k. bayer. Akad. Wiss., Vol. XI, pt. i, p. 34, 
pl. i, figs. la-d. Smith, W. W., 1907, Phil. Journseer- 
Vol. 11, No. 6, p. 396, pl. 11? Iv. Chapman, 1913, Proc. 
Roy. Soc. Vict., Vol. xxv1, (N.S.) pt. i, p. 166, pl. xvi, 
figs. la—c, 2, 3. 
Fragments of this branching type of calcareous alga are 
quite common in the limestone. It often materially helps 
to build up limestones of Cainozoic, and especially of 
Miocene age; as for example the “‘Leitha Kalk’? of the 
Vienna Basin. It generally accompanies the Lepidocyclina 
limestone of the Indo-Pacific area, as at Christmas Island, 
Borneo, Japan, the New Hebrides and the Philippines. In 
Australia, Lithothamnion is of frequent occurrence in the 
Janjukian series of Victoria and South Australia. 
+ « Foraminifera collected round the Funafuti Atoll from Shallow and 
Moderately Deep Water.” Journ. Linn. Soc. Lond., Zool. Vol. xxvum1, 
1902, p. 394 (in note on Carpenteria balaniformis); and on p.»395 (in note 
on C. raphidodendron). 
