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Chonetes, sp. ind. {a), PI. 13, fig. 10 ; PI. 37, figs. 21, 22. 
„ sp. ind. (c), PL 37, fig. 20. 
Entolimn, sp. 
EucJiondria, sp. 
Nucula, sp. ind.., PI. 40, fig. 10. 
Nuculana, sp. ind., PL 14, fig. 17. 
Naticopsis variata, Phill. ? 
„ sp. ind. 
Porcellia Pearsi, EtL. fil., PL 15, figs. 7, 8. 
Orthoceras, sp. 
PalfBoniscid Pish. 
From the Druramond Eange a number of fossils hare been obtained by the late 
Eev. J. E. Tenison Woods, Mr. AY. Pryar, Mr. A. E. Holmes, Mr. C. T. Musson, and 
the late Mr. James Smith, which enable us to place the strata in which they occur on 
the horizon of the Star Beds. The strata of the Drummond Eange, of which the 
cuttings on the Central Eailway afford admirable sections, do not bear any strong 
resemblance to the Star Beds of the Northern areas. Three miles and a-half east of 
Pino Hill Station (248|-mile peg) yellow gritty sandstones and shales are seen dipping 
at 7° to W. — a dip which would carry them beiieath the Desert Sandstone. At 
243 miles similar sandstones dip to S. at 12°. I’rom Hannam’s Gap (235 miles) 
to Bogantungan (227 miles) the strata consist of finely laminated, fine-grained, blue- 
grey sandstone, and blue, grey, and greenish, and occasionally purple, shales. ThicL 
beds of hard gritty white, yellow, or brown siliceous sandstone occur at intervals. Prom 
Hannam’s Gap to Bogantungan the strata dip at an average angle of about 2° to E. 
(a little steeper than the grade of the railway). At Bogantungan is the axis of ^ 
synclinal trough, and as far eastward as Withersfield the dip is towards the west. The 
total thicljuess of the strata is probably not less than 2,000 feet. According to the 
railway survey Pine Hill Station is 1,1*58 feet; Drummond (241 miles), 1,450 feetj 
Haunam’s Gap, 1,717 feet; Bogantungan, 1,098 feet; and Withersfield, 834 feet above 
the sea-level. 
Early in 1890 (?) Mr. C. T. Musson, P.L.S., presented to the Mining and 
Geological Museum, Sydney, numerous pieces of greenish-grey sandy micaceous shale, 
with small fish scales and plates scattered over them, from a locality in the Drummond 
Eange which he described as follows ; — 
“ On and around a small ridge, half-a-mile from and to the north of the Bogan- 
tungau Eailway Station, I found numerous fish-remains consisting of scales and spines 
in nodules from what appear to be Carboniferous shales, the beds dipping east, and 
apparently continuous with those of a similar character developed at the east end of the 
cutting in the range, some tw'o or three miles away. The fossils occur in nodules, 
which are seen to rest in thin bands in a section showing hard and soft beds of ^ 
peculiar dark-greenish clay (mapped Carboniferous by the Geological Survey), with 
other harder bands in thin layers, which are sometimes seen to cap the ridges. The 
fossils were found in situ, and lying about the gullies, of which there are three. The 
beds rest on a coarse gritty rock in places of a crystalline character. The hard 
fossiliferous bands vary considerably in themselves, and show evidence of having been 
altered from their original condition.” * 
* “Note on the Occurrence of Fish Eeniains in the Eocks of the Drummond Range, Central Queen” 
land.” By R. Etheridge, Junr. Records Geol. Survey New South Wales, Vol. ii., Ft. 2, 1890, p. 72. 
