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to above. Moreover, as with the oil shales from Neill’s shaft, indetermin- 
able carbonised plant remains, such as stem fragments, were observed 
in much of the oil shale examined at this locality also.* Several specimens 
of dicotyledonous fossil wood were also collected from this property, and 
radial and transverse sections of these have shown them to possess 
Eucalypt affinities. 
Some two miles to the N.E. of the above locality, fragments of fossil 
sedges similar to those found in the shales on the bank of the South 
Pine River were observed in the shale which has been brought up 
recently in putting down a bore for water on subdivision 1 of portion 
41, parish of Warner, about 8 chains south of Lawnton railway station. 
Approximately a-quarter of a mile further to the N., on Houghton’s 
Nursery, in portion 24, parish of Warner, another bore has recently been 
sunk, and an examination of the material brought up has revealed the 
presence of ostracod remains in a greenish-grey bituminous shale, 
reported to have been met at a depth of about 45 feet. Unfortunately, 
the material has been very much crushed and mashed up by percussion 
drilling, but microscopic examination has revealed a number of the 
isolated carapace valves of fossil ostraeods. At least three distinct species 
of Cypridiferous ostraeods have been recognised, all of which have been 
identified with species to be described shortly by the writer from the 
Tertiaries of The Narrows, near Gladstone. It might here by mentioned 
that this is the most northerly locality in the Petrie Series wdiere the 
writer has found fossils to confirm the Tertiary age of the strata. 
Rather more than a mile to the S.S.E. of the above locality a 55-feet 
well has lately been sunk, in the grounds of Francis’ Cornflour Factory, 
in the southern part of portion 12, parish of Warner, near Four Mile 
Creek. The material on the spoil heap of this well, however, has proved 
to be practically unfossiliferous, an intensive search resulting in the 
discovery of only one fossil — a fragment of a dicotyledonous leaf, found 
in light grey sapropelic shale. 
On the other hand, shale rich in ostracod remains was found about 
the opening of an old bore on Brecknell’s Farm, Samsonvale road, 
Strathpine. This bore, which is reported to have been sunk in 1939 to 
a depth of 178 feet, is situated on subdivision 10 portion 222, parish of 
Warner, approximately half-a-mile S.S.W. of the Cornflour Factory. 
Unfortunately, no log was prepared during the drilling, and F. S. 
Brecknell, the owner of the property, could only say that the ostracod- 
bearing shale had come from below a depth of 60 feet. Moreover, as 
much of the shale examined on the spoil heap was found to contain 
ostraeods, it is certain that quite a considerable thickness was passed 
through in boring, probably in several separate layers. In contrast 
with the greenish shale also present, the ostracod-bearing shale is gener- 
ally of a bluish-grey colour, and fissile. In some cases, also, the bedding 
planes are so packed with the white chitino-calcareous carapace valves 
that other material is almost virtually excluded. Unfortunately, most 
of these valves are very crushed and broken, but microscopic search has 
revealed a number of well preserved, identifiable specimens. Four 
distinct species have already been recognised, probably the most 
abundant being Erpetocypris aequalis Chapman, originally described 
from the Redbank Plains Series. Two of the four species, in fact, are 
Since this paper went to press fossil ostraeods have also been found in some of 
the oil shale from this locality. 
