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,itl. «„6r.l spocie. of Cjclopte™, Kn.rrip SigilW, 
. They occur near to, and probably m association with beds ot m 
fossils which hare teen describcd>s lower carboniferous.” These beds, wine 
particularly well developed in the neighbourhood of Stroud, I believe o e 
ho,i»n»ft.SteFom.ti«; but no i«s.ge cTCr be» ob.e:^ .n South 
Wales from the Lepidodendroii Beds referred to, upwards into the marine beds 
Hunter dirtrict^o^es on the Geology of New South Wales,”* Mr. ^ilki-on says - 
“Near Canowindra, on the Lachlan Elver, are ranges composed 
sandstones and shales containing Lepidodeniron SigilUna. which may 
tains and those conspicuous hills beyond Condobolin consist of similar , J 
also belong to this age, or to the Upper Devonian, but as yet no fossils have been found 
in them. The lower beds are extensively developed between the Hunter ^n 
Manning Eivers,where they form high broken ranges. T ey consis o ^ J 
sandstones, limestones, and shales, which have been much disturbed, 
all angles Near Gloucester there is a splendid natural section showing, o 
: ‘ „ile, the bed. i. « ™rtic.l pe.itiou. Though 
abundant in these rocks, no workable coal-seams are know . . ^ ^ 
remarkable, seeing that the fossils are of the genera winch are 
great Coal Measures of Englaud-viz., Lepidodendron S^g^llar^a 
gold-bearing quartz reefs yielding from 1 to 15 oz. o go per oi , » 
on the Copeland Gold Field, traverse strata contaimng these fossds.f There ar 
beds in the same series rich in marine fossils-Pr<ii«c^«., Sp^nfer, Cnnotds, Fene 
^fis possible that the Avon Eiver Lepidodendron Beds, Victoria, may he 
ap]iroximately on the horizon of the Star Formation. 
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* Svdnev : Government Printer : 1882. . t, j 
t So far aa the fossils show, these bods may be equivalent to our Gympie Beds. 
