RELATIONSHIPS OF THE AUSTRALIAN CAINOZOIC SYSTEM. 
The most clearly defined section of this much disturbed and 
masked coast-line is that given by Mr. Kit son,* from Landslip 
Point to Narringalling Creek (Kackeroboite Creek of Kitson). At 
Landslip Point (Fig. 3, a generalized section) the succession is 
shown to be 
6. Ferruginous sands. 
5. Ferruginous grits with fossils. 
4. Basalt. 
3. Hard ferruginous grit. 
2. Conglomerate (with slate pebbles). 
1. Granite. 
The discovery of fossils in the ferruginous bed No. 5 mentioned 
above was made some years ago by Mr. Kitson, F.G.S., who, in his 
paper, “ Report on the Coast-line and adjacent Country between 
Frankston, Mornington, and Dromana,”]' stated that “ The [fossil] 
casts obtained have been examined by Mr. Dennant, who unhesi- 
tatingly pronounces them to be of Eocene age.” 
A fairly extensive series of fossils from this ferruginous band 
was obtained and recorded by Hall and Pritchard in 1 9014 Although 
their list comprises 36 species, none of them seems to be restricted 
to Balcombian strata. In point of fact, an examination of that list 
shows that the affinities of the species enumerated lie as closely with 
a Janjukian as a Balcombian facies, with which latter series Hall 
and Pritchard state they “ show a close agreement.” 
During the last year I have visited this locality in company 
with Mr. R. A. Keble, and we have made a fairly comprehensive 
collection of the ironstone fossils. The impressions, as a rule, are 
very clean, and in some cases even the shell is preserved. Several 
of the forms found are noteworthy as being restricted Janjukian 
species, and as such give strong evidence as to the precise age 
of this band of ironstone. The fossils amongst the collection 
made by us which are new to the already published list referred to 
are : — 
Corals — 
Placotrochus sp. 
Sphenotrochus emarciatus, Duncan. 
Vermes — 
Ditvupa cornea , L. sp. var. wormbetiensis, McCoy. 
Brachiopoda — 
Terebratula (?) aiding ae, Tate. 
Magellanic i garibaldiana, Dav. sp. 
* Monthly Prog. Rep., Geol. Surv. Viet., No. 12, 1900; section facing p. 4, C-D. 
f Loc. supra, tit., p. 10. 
+ Proc. Roy. Soc. Viet., vol. xiv. (N.S.), pt. 1, 1901, pp. 44 and 46-53. 
