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Family— DICTYOT^NIOPTEEIDEiE. 
Genus— GLOSSOPTJSHIS, Prongniart, 1828. 
(Prodrome Hist. Veg. Foss., p. 64.) 
Ohs. Besides tlie Permo-Carboniferous localities in wliich different species of 
his genus afterwards referred to hare been diseorered, the genus also occurs in the 
fJesert Sandstone. 
That the plants discovered at Cement Hill, near Clermont,* are Glossopteris 
there can be no reasonable doubt, but I must be allowed to consider my Colleague and 
IS Assistant, Mr. W. II. Bands, as wholly responsible for the reference of the beds 
rom which the specimens come, to the upper member of the Queensland Cretaceous, 
e Desert Sandstone.f The case is, however, a parallel one to the supposed occurrence 
Glossopteris in the Cretaceous of Eussia, or the Tertiary rocks of Italy ; J but in 
ese eases there is an element of doubt whether or no the loaves in question are truly 
hose of Glossopteris. 
The Clermont plants came to hand too late for description in those jiages, but 
ipy will appear amongst supplementary descriptions of Queensland fossils. 
Glossopxehis Browittaiva. 
Brongniarf, PI. 16, figs. G and 8 ; PI. 17, figs. 9 and 10. 
^lossojUeris Broioniana, Prong., Hist. Veg. Foss., 1828, p. 223, t. G2. 
” .. Morris in Strzelecki’s Phys. Dcsorip. N. S. Wiile.?, 1845, p. 247, t. G, f. 1 and In. 
” .. Dana, Geology Wilkes’ U. S. Explor. Exped., 1849, p. 710, Atlas, 1. 12, f. 13. 
” Feistmantel, Palaeontographica, 1878, Sup. Bd. iii.. Lief. 3 ; Heft 2, p. 78 ; Heft 3, 
p. 90, t. 8, f. 3 and 4, t. 19, f. 1, la, .3, 4, and 4a., 5 and 6a, 7, t. 11, f. 1. 
of H abused and disputed plant is very characteristic, in Queensland, 
the equivalents of the Upper Coal Measures of New South Wales. It is, undoubtedly, 
with the coal-seams of the Cooktown area, and on the specimens submitted 
im from this locality Mr. Eobert Kidston makes the following remarks : — “ Among 
^ ® specimens are some which may perhaps be referred to the variety australasica of 
mentions in his Traiti de Pal. Veg. (vol. i., p. 646) that 
on^ the fronds varies mucli according to their age, and that he had seen 
same slab some that were almost linear, and others that were oblouff- 
®Pathulate.” 
Q t?. Browniana occurs in the Upper or Freshwater Series of tho Bowen Eiver 
loss ] the Middle or Marine bods, possesses a Palajozoic fauna, but in a 
fr.n On the subject of the Marine bands in the former, I formerly made the 
owing remarks : — > 
gg . Marine bed at Eosella Creek contains Goniatites mioromplial us (Morris) and 
^yer fragments of other Mollusca. The similar bed at the Havilah- 
ifer contains magnificent specimens of a particularly characteristic Carbon- 
(j l^rachiopod Berhjia senilis, Phillips, in company witli Productus hraoligthwrus, 
oworby, and a bivalve, either a Pachgdomus or Astartila. 
w},g Striking confirmation is again afforded by yet another locality. Cockatoo Creek, 
^ and Bhgllotheca actually in company with Sfrophalosia 
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bf> f ^ t*- tfO) was tliat beds in which Glossopteris occurs, unaccompanied by other fossils, 
(Ai.j-j any age from the Lower”[I should have said “Middle”] “Bowen to the De.sert Sand.stone.” 
Geol. Pal. Relations Coal and Plant-bearing Beds of E. Australia. Mem. Oeol. 
^ ^ales. Pal. No. 5, 1890, p. 119. 
