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CO > Jige- So far as we are acquainted with their fauna, they would seem to 
with^t?°*^'^ closely with the Middle Devonian Limestones of the Eifel, or perhaps 
other older series of the Corniferous Limestone of North America.” In 
for ^ series of rocks in question may be said to homotaxially represent those 
tg ^ ions. They are certainly not of Upper Devonian age, and there is no evidence 
fav^^^'^i^- position in the Upj)er Silurian. The Brachiopoda so far obtained 
find there is a marked absence of the large Fenlameri, StropJiomencs, 
rinoids which are usually the most marked objects in an Upper Silurian Uauna. 
DESCEIPTION OE THE SPECIES. 
Kingdom — PLANT.®. 
Section— PHANEROGAMOUS PLANTS. 
Class — E xogena:. 
? Order-CONIFERiE. 
Genm—BIOBANOPHYLLUM, Grand 'Fury, 1877. 
(Mem. Acad. Sci. Inst. France, xxiv., p. 272.) 
DicBANOPnxLiUM AusTEALicni, Baioson, PI. 4, fig. 13. 
■D. ausiralicum, Dawson, Quart. Journ. Geol. Soc., 1881, xxxvii., p. 306, 1. 13, f. 15. 
^l^e lea^ Ghar. The leaf bases are minute, narrow, elongate, and spirally arranged ; 
es are linear and bifurcating at an obtuse angle at their extremities. 
Sir J “W Tt plant yet found in the Devonian rocks of Queensland. 
• awson appears to regard it as Corniferous. 
l^fie upn Sonzon. Panning River, Burdekin Downs, in a calcareous shale forming 
the Panning Limestone, and in white flaggy sandstone overlying 
same limestone. {R. L. Jaclc.) 
Kingdom— ANIMALIA. 
Sub-Kingdom— CCELENTERATA. 
Class — H tdeozoa. 
Order— HYDROCOEALLINA:. 
Pamily— STEOMATOPOEIDA:. 
Genus— STBOMATOP ORA, Goldfuss, 1826. 
(Petrefacta Germaniae, p. 21.) 
Stbomatopoea, sp. ind., PI. 1, figs. 3-5. 
l^iver Lim' occurred amongst Mr. Daintree’s fossils from the Broken 
specim^* ^’’E^dy silieified a state that a satisfactory examination of 
from tho^A^+E°'^*>'^ made. Another example has been forwarded by Mr. Jack 
bevonsI,:„ ^ Creek Limestone, which is very like some Devonian species of 
Mu h"^*^ the Eifel. 
OQvelopino- satisfactory and massive examples occur in the Eeid Limestone, 
who ^ ^^rious corals which constitute that rock. Prof. H. A. Nicholson, 
enough to examine specimens, at one time believed them to be a 
a led to P. densum, Nich. and Murie ; but a subsequent inspection, since 
