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examined, only broadly into four epochs, which, however, afterwards by the 
description of their enclosed fossils, have been somewhat more closely deter- 
mined. The coalbeds occur in the Third Epoch, from below, and they are 
described from New South Wales, where they form the Newcastle Basin, and 
from Yan Diemen’s Land, where they occur especially in the Jerusalem Basin, 
north of Hobart. 
This work of Strzelecki is very often quoted as proof of the Balacozoic 
age of the Elora. 
(5.) 1847. M‘Coy (Prof. F.) On the Fossil Botany and Zoology of the Recks associated 
with the Coal of Australia. Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., Vot. XX, 1 ser., pp. 145, Sfc., 311, fyc. l’lates. 
This is a most important work, because it is entirely based on thorough 
palaeontological researches. Prof. M‘Coy described fossil plants and animals. 
The plants were collected at different localities, belonging, according 
to the present division, to different geological horizons, which, however, were 
then not distinguished. They arc : — 
Vertebraria australis, M‘Cov, p. 147, PI. IX, f. 1. Mulubimba 
(Newcastle). 
Gleichenites odontopteroides, M'Coy, p. 147. Sandstones at Clarke’s 
Hill-, New South Wales. 
Odontopteris microphylla , M £ Coy, p. 147. Clarke’s Ilill, New 
South Wales. 
Otopteris or at a, M‘Coy, p. 148, PI. IX, f. 2. Arowa*, New South 
Wales. 
Cyclopteris angustifoUa, M c Coy, p. 148, PI. IX, f. 3, 3a. Guntawang, 
Mudgee, New South Wales. (The present Ganganiopteris 
angustifoUa.) 
Sphenopteris lob folia, Morr., p. 149. Mulubimba (Newcastle). 
Sphenopteris alata, Bgt., p. 119. Mulubimba (Newcastle). 
Sphenopteris hastate, M'Coy, p. 149, PI. X, f. 1, la. Mulubimba 
(Newcastle). 
Sphenopteris germane, M £ Coy, p. 150, PI. X, f. 2, 2a. Mulubimba 
(Newcastle). 
Sphenopteris plumosa, M‘Coy, p. 150, PI. X, f. 3, 3a. Mulubimba 
(Newcastle). 
Sphenopteris jlexuosa, M‘Coy, p. 150, PI. IX, f. 4, 4a. 
* See foot-note on next page. 
