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GrONIiTITES, sp. ind., PI. 15, fig. 5. 
Goniatitcs, sp. ind., Etheridge fil., Proc. K. Phys. Soe. Edinb., 1880, v., p. 305. 
Oh.9. A second species is present in the Bowen Eiyer Beds, differing from 
G-. micromphalus in haring a very much sharper back. It appears to be nearer to 
striatus, Dana,* than to Morris’s species. A sharp-backed Goniatite has also been 
found at Gympie. It is much sharper and narrower than Q. micromphalus, and is 
interesting from its locality. 
Loo. and Horizon. Eosella Creek, two miles above Havilah Paddock {B. L. 
Jack'). This is an important fossil, as it is another of those occurring in a marine 
band in the Upper or Prcsh Water Series. Gympie {B. L. Lack). 
Goniatites planobbiformis, sp. nov., PI. 41, fig. 9. 
Sp. Char. Whorls numerous, at least six, increasing in size very slowly and in 
one plane, coil-like or planorbiform, very slightly convex; no umbilicus visible; test not 
preserved, but surface plain in oasts ; lobes and saddles nearly' equal, but the latter 
rather the more pointed ; two chambers occupy about the space of seven millimetres. 
Obs. The preservation of this shell only in the form of casts renders it very 
difficult to assign it reliable characters, but the chief and striking point is its very 
compactly coiled and planorbiform aspect. The large.st specimen observed measures 
one and a-half inches in diameter, the whorls increasing in size very slowly. 
The septa are very rarely seen, the specimens having very much more the 
appearance of a tightly and flatly coiled Euoinphaloid shell than a Goniatite. The 
species is of the type of, and nearly allied to. Gonial lies clpmeniceforniis, De I\.oninck,t but 
the body-whorl of the latter is much broader than in ours. A somewhat similar shell 
is Buomphalus sanoti-sahee, Eoemer,J from the Carboniferous of Texas, which may as 
Well be a Goniatite as a Euomphalus, for all the evidence there is to the contrary. 
The sutural convolutions do not well correspond with any of the recognised 
groups of Goniatites, but they approach nearest to those of the subdivision Garhonarii in 
Beyrieh's classification. Neither have I been able to locate this species in either of 
the sections proposed by the Brothers Sandberger on similar anatomical structure. 
Loc. and Horizon. Lake’s Creek, near Eockhampton {Hie late James Smith) ; 
Rockhampton District § {The late Bev. J. E. Tenison Woods ; Colin. De Vis) Gympie 
Beds. 
Goxtatites, sp. ind., PL 15, figs. 14 and 15. 
[Compare O. striatas, J. Sby., Min. Con., 1814, i., p. 11.5, t. 53, f. 1.] 
Obs. A moderately large Goniatite, in a bad state of preservation, but much 
larger and stouter than G. micromphalus, was obtained by the late Mr. J ames Smith. It 
is viewed partly in the round, partly in section, from the manner in which the stone has 
hcen fractured. It clearly belongs to the group of the above species, the external 
ornament, so far as preserved, coi’resp ending with that of the type of G. striatus in 
the Sowerbv Collection. || I think it is even possible to recognize, in places, the minutely 
delicate cross-bars between the regular spiral raised lines of the surface. The course 
of the septa is identical with that of Sowerby’s species, and strong varices of growth 
^'Ve also here and there visible across the back of the specimen. The septa apparently 
have four folds, sharp and angular. The umbilicus is small and regular as in the type 
and all the volutions hidden. 
* Loc. cit., i. 5a and 6. 
+ Eaune Calc. Carb. Belgique, Pt. 2, 1880, t. 49, f. 12. 
J Kreidebildung von Te-xas, 1852, t. 11, f. 5a and b. 
§ See note, p. 199. 
II Natural History Museum, London. 
