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Sagenopteris tasmanica, Eeistm. Jerusalem. 
Zeugophy llites elongates, Morr. Newtown; Richmond; Jerusalem; 
Impression Bay; Seymour; York Plains; Ben Lomond; Longford. 
Age — Mesozoic (perhaps Trias and Jura, as it may he that these beds 
also represent the Wianamatta-IIawkesbury beds of New South Wales). 
Summary Remarks. 
With regard to the preceding notices the following remarks can be 
made. 
(1.) In Victoria, New South Wales, and Queensland there are certain 
beds deposited, which according to the plants and the animals, represent a 
portion of the Palmozoic Epoch, which in Europe is designated Devonian. 
In Tasmania the so-called “ Eingal Soft Shales” represent these beds; they 
do not contain plants, but fresli-water animal fossils. 
(2.) In New South Wales and Queensland there follow, in ascending 
order, certain beds, which, according to their plant fossils, must he considered 
as of Lower Carboniferous age. The plants are generically and partly specifi- 
cally the same as we find in Europe in the strata of the same age, viz., 
Calcimites rcidiatus, Rhacopteris incequilatera, and other species of the same 
genus, Archceoptcris, Lepidodendron Veltheimianum, and other species, &c. 
There are, however, some marine Carboniferous animals. In Tasmania there 
do not appear to he any such strata deposited which would represent the 
Lower Carboniferous division. 
(3.) But after this different relations prevail. In New South Wales a 
Carboniferous fauna continues, while the flora changes entirely its character, 
still within Carboniferous times. The strata between the Lower Marine and 
Upper Marine beds in New South Wales contain coal scams, viz., the Lower 
Coal Measures and plants, quite different, however, from any of the charac- 
teristic coal plants of Europe or America, especially Rhyllo theca, Glossop- 
teris, and Noggerathiopsis, which are again found in greater numbers in the 
higher beds. 
The age of the Lower and Upper Marine beds is shown by the animal 
fossils to he chiefly Middle and Upper Carboniferous, so that the age of the 
Coal Measures between them is also determined. 
