FURTHER TRACES OF MEIOLANIA IN N. S. WALES— ETHERIDGE. 39 
On FURTHER TRACES of MEIOLANIA in N. S. WALES. 
By R. Etheridge, Junr., Paleontologist. 
In 1889 I described* the first, and so far the only remains of this 
remarkable genus discovered in N. S. Wales, from the Canadian 
Lead, Gulgong, The fossils consisted of a small horn-core, greater 
part of a caudal vertebra, and two annular segments of the tail- 
sheath. Irrespective of the interest attached to the extended 
geographical distribution, lies the fact of the much more important 
geological range, perhaps even indicating a distinct species of the 
animal. 
Evidence is now to hand, in the form of two horn-cores, of the 
existence of Meiolania in the superficial deposits near Coolah. 
The specimens form part of a small collection, consisting of bones 
of Diprotodon , Phascolonus , Procoptodo7i ) &c., lately presented by 
Mr. J. McMaster, of Coolah. The conical processes almost rival 
in size those of the original Meiolania Owenii , Smith-Woodw. 
Mr. McMaster states that the fossils were found in the new 
channel of the Oaky Creek, branch of the main Weetalabah 
Creek, and in another branch known as Binnia Creek. The 
Weetalabah flows into the Castlereagh River, in the Bligh 
District, County Napier, about twenty -two nailee north-west of 
Coolah. 
The conical processes, in their present state of preservation, 
when placed on their broad bases, are more or less oblique — one 
more so than the other — thick bosses, graduating to moderately 
sharp apices, with an indefinitely quadrate rather than a strictly 
trihedral section. The peripheral or basal outline is imperfect. 
In the smaller of the two horn cores, or conical processes, the 
longest basal diameter, i.e ., in the direction of the obliquity, is 
four inches ; the greatest transverse breadth at right angles to 
the former is three inches ; the height, taken vertically from the 
base to the apex, is fulty three inches ; whilst the length of the 
longest, or anterio-apical ridge (for it seems that in the tail-sheath 
of Meiolania Owenii , figured by Owen,f the longest ridge of the 
conical processes is always anterior), is three and a half inches. 
# Records Geol. Survey N.S. Wales, 1889, I., pt. 3, p. 149. 
f ]Jhil. Trans., clxxii., t. 65. 
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