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PODOZAMITES DISTANS, PrCsl. 
Zamites distans, Schenk, Fossile Flora der Grenzscbichten des Kcupers und Lias Franhens, 
1SG8, PL 35, 30, 37. 
Podozamilcs distans ?, Tenison Woods, on the Wianamatla Shales (Journ. 11. Soc., N. S. Wales, 
1883, Yol. XVII, p. 75). 
Obs. — In liis above paper on the W ianamatta Shales, Mr. Tenison 
Woods lias quoted this species from the Wianamatla beds, and doubtfully 
from the Hawkesbury rocks ; it was quoted as one of those species, upon the 
occurrence of which in both of the mentioned rock groups Mr. Tenison 
Woods based his opinion that the Wianamatta Shales and Hawkesbury rocks 
form one connected series. In his later work on the Australian Plora (1883) 
this species is, however, not mentioned,* so that I can offer no further details, 
although I thought it necessary to make mention of it. 
Locality and Horizon. — In Europe Bodozomites distans occurs in 
P hoe tic beds (passage beds between Trias and Jura). The occurrence in 
Australia would be pretty nearly on a similar horizon. 
Genus — OTOZAMITES, Fr. Braun. 
Ohs. — This genus is rarely represented amongst the Australian fossils, 
only one species being hitherto known. 
Otozamites comp. Mandeslohi, Kurr, sp. 
PL XXVIII, Figs. 0, 9 a. 
Zamites Mandeslolii , Kurr, Beitrage z. FI. der Juraform. Wiirfcembergs, 1810, p. 10, Tab. I, f. 3. 
Otozamites Mandeslolii, Schmper, Traite de Pal. Veg., 1870-72, II, p. 171. 
Otozamites (comp. Mandeslolii, Kurr), Feistmantel, Foss. Flora Austr. Suppl., 1879, p. 171, PL 
XII, figs. G, G a. 
Otozamites Mandeslolii, Tenison Woods, loc. cit., 1883, p. 151. 
Sp. Char. — “ Eoliis longis, linealibus, apicem versus sensim angustatis, 
foliolis dense confertis, obliquis, alternant ibus, rliachi impositis, basiquo 
contiguis, ovato-oblongis, obtusis, basi subcordatis ; nervis crcbris divergenti- 
bus” (S chimper. J • 
Obs. — The above figured specimen belongs to the Cycadeacese and 
apparently to the genus Otozamites. The basal angles of the leaf arc not, it 
is true, so distinctly auric ulate as is usually the case, but still in the upper 
* [The name Podozamites distans is distinctly given by the Rev. J. E. Tenison Woods on p. 109 of his 1883 
work (separate copies), and p. 145 of Proc. Linn. Soc. N. S. Wales, 1883, viii, in the synonomy of Podozamites 
lanceolatus, L. and H. — R. E., jun.] 
