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Here is a series of plants and fishes from the Trias Cases 24 and 
of New South Wales and Victoria. There are 25 * 
exhibited some remarkably well preserved fishes 
from the railway ballast quarry at Gosford, as 
Cleithrolepis and the deep-bellied grovelling form 
Pristisomus. 
Fig. 23. Pristisomus crassus A. S. Woodward. 
A Ganoid Fish from the Trias of Gosford, New South Wales. 
These contain Permocarboniferous ferns, Foraminifera, Cases 26 to 27 
Corals, and Molluscs. Amongst the noteworthy forms 
are Glossopteris, a fern-like seed-bearing plant of the 
the Newcastle coal-beds ; Tasmanite shale, composed 
of spores (Tasmanites punctatus ) ; Araucarioxylon, 
probably the oldest Araucarian tree ; the widely- 
distributed Sea-mats, as Fenestella ; and the 
great Aviculopecten, Eurydesma, and Keeneia, 
of the phylum Mollusca. 
Here is shown the type specimen of Lepidodendron Case 28. 
australe, supplemented with, drawings of a restoration 
and specimens of leaves and bark. Here also is the 
