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SOME PERMIAN FORAMINIFERA FROM 
EASTERN AUSTRALIA. 
By Irene Crespin, B.A., Commonwealth Palaeontologist, 
Mineral Resources Survey Branch, Canberra. 
(With Plate III.) 
Communicated by 0. Jones, M.Sc. 
( Received 24 th April, 1944; read before the Royal Society of Queensland , 
31 st July 3 1944; issued separately, 5th February, 1945.) 
INTRODUCTION. 
Recent investigations of the Permian rocks of Queensland and 
New South Wales have shown that microfossils are well distributed in 
them. Permian foraminifera have been described by Howchin (1893, 
1895), Chapman and Howchin (1905), Etheridge Junr. (1906), Parr 
(1940) and Crespin and Parr (1940), from deposits in New South 
Wales, Tasmania, Western Australia and Northern Territory, but none 
has been previously listed from Queensland. 
Four new species are described in the present paper and notes 
are given on previously described forms. The Queensland material 
examined includes rocks collected by Dr. K. Washington Cray during 
his investigations in the Springsure area for Commonwealth Oil 
Refineries Ltd., from rocks collected from the same area by geologists 
of Oil Search Limited, and from cores and cuttings from the Arcadia 
Bore, 84 miles north of Roma. The New South Wales specimens are 
mainly from rock collections made by Dr. Washington Cray and 
geologists of Oil Search Limited, in the Hunter River District, and drill 
cuttings from the Kulnura Bore, parish Kooree, county Northumber- 
land (Raggatt and Crespin, 1940). 
In Queensland, the foraminifera occur in beds belonging to the 
Middle Bowen and Lower Bowen Series, and in New South Wales to 
the Upper Marine and Lower Marine Series. 
The state of preservation of the tests varies, many of them being 
crushed and distorted. Some are brownish in colour, while those from 
the carbonaceous shales in the Kulnura Bore are almost black. 
The new species of foraminifera herein described are: — Nodosaria 
serocoldensis, Nodosaria spring suren sis, Dentalina grayi, and Frondicu- 
laria parri. 
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