Mem. Nat. Mus. Vict., X, 1936. 
NOTE ON THE IDENTITY OF LEPIDODENDRON 
MAN SFIELDEN SE McCOY MS. WITH 
L. V ELTHEIMIANUM STERNBERG. 
By F. Chapman , A.L.S., F.G.S. 
(Plate XII.) 
In the National Museum collection of fossils from the 
Lower Carboniferous of Mansfield, are two specimens of a 
Lepidodendron to which Sir F. McCoy gave the MS. name 
L. mansfieldense. The earliest record of this name is in a 
paper by G. Sweet and is based on a memorandum given to 
that author by McCoy (Sweet, 1890, p. 2) ; in this memoran- 
dum McCoy states that the species is “quite distinct from the 
Lepidodedron australe McCoy of the Avon River, Gippsland.” 
Professor Birbel Salmi (1926, p. 238) confuses the two 
species, in saying: “In Victoria the characteristic Upper 
Devonian species, Lepidodendron (Leptophloeum) australe , 
persists into the Avon Sandstones which are strongly uncon- 
formable to the Middle Devonian strata in that region, and 
have moreover, been assigned by McCoy on palaeontological 
evidence, to a Lower Carboniferous horizon. In the Mansfield 
beds of Victoria L. australe is found in association with Lower 
Carboniferous fish remains.” 
The first intention of this note was to establish the 
cheironymic record of L. mansfieldense, but a detailed 
examination of two specimens marked by McCoy for figuring, 
proves their identity with Lepidodendron V eltheimianum 
Sternberg. 
Lepidodendron V eltheimianum Sternberg. 
Lepidodendron V eltheimianum Sternberg, 1825, pi. iii, fig. 1. 
Sagenaria V eltheimianum (Sternberg) Goeppert, 1852, pis. xvii-xxiv. 
Lepidodendron Vclthemianum Sternberg, Feistmantel, 1890, p. 139, 
pi. x, figs. 4, 5; Seward, 1910, p. 171, text figs. 157, 185, 186a, b. 
The two examples of “L. mansfieldense ” marked “ Figured 
specimen” by McCoy in the National Museum collection were 
McCoy’s selected syntypes for his L. mansfieldense. They are 
now plesiotypes of L. V eltheimianum. 
One of these (PI. XII, fig. 1), is the more perfectly 
preserved and may represent the inner cortex of the stem, the 
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