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2. Avon Sandstone, Gippsland. — According to the description these 
beds are higher than the Iguana Creek beds. Prom these sandstones Prof. 
M‘Coy (Prodr. Pal. Yict. Dec. I, p. 37-39, PI. IX) described 
hepidodendro n auslrale , M'Coy. Avon Diver, 5 miles above Bushy 
Park, Gippsland. Age — Lower Carboniferous. 
There is no doubt that this group is to bo correlated with the Lepido- 
dendron beds at Smith’s Crock, near Stroud, in New South Wales, which are 
also of Lower Carboniferous age, so that the Iguana Creek beds, as of Upper 
Devonian age, will have to be correlated with the Goonoo Goonoo beds in 
New South Wales. 
3. Conglomerates of the Bacchus Marsh Beds, showing signs of glacial 
action during their deposition. According to the recent discoveries they are 
to be correlated with the marine beds below the Newcastle or Upper Coal 
Measures in New South Wales. (See II. D. Oldham, No. 1G.) 
A ge — U pper Carboniferous. 
4. Bacchus Marsh Sandstones. — These beds will naturally represent 
the beds next above the marine beds in New South Wales, and these are the 
Newcastle or Upper Coal Measures. This was my original correlation before 
I had notice of the conglomerate bed in the ITawkcsbury rocks. I may in 
this respect refer to my “ Palaeozoische und mesozoische Plora dcs ostlichen 
Australiens,” 1S7S (pp. 99-101). 
From these beds Prof. M'Coy (Prodr. Pal. Yict., Dec. II) described 
the following fossils : — 
Gangamopteris angustifolia, M'Coy, 
„ spatliulcita, M'Coy, 
,, oblique, M'Coy, 
A ge — Permian. 
5. Carbonaceous or Upper Mesozoic Beds.— The chief districts are — 
Coleraine, on the Wannon Diver; Cape Otway, with the Barrabool Hills; 
Western Port ; Cape Paterson ; Bellarine, near Geelong. 
Prof. M'Coy (Prodr. Pal. Yict. Dec. I and II) described the following 
fossils : — 
Aletliopieris australis, M'Coy. Bellarine; Barrabool Hills. 
Tceniopteris Daintreei, M'Coy. Cape Paterson ; Barrabool Hills ; 
Wannon Diver. 
I Bacchus Marsh Sandstones, 
Yictoria. 
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