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Flinders, is well shown. It rests on the granite, and is overlaid unconformahly by the 
Desert Sandstone, which overlaps it, and abuts against the granite. The Desert 
Sandstone itself is covered by lava-form basalt beds which overlap it and appear again in 
great force on the Burdcldn side of the granite range. The altitude of Tatoo Camp 
was estimated (by Aneroid) at 1,810 feet. 
On the Dalrymple lload, twelve miles above Ilughendcn, a gully, rising in Mount 
Bechford, and falling into Porcupine Creek, exposes a section of about twelve feet ef 
horizontally bedded grey clay shales, with thin bands of grey flags and “ damper-shaped 
nodules of magnesian limestone, each enclosed in an envelope of glittering carbonate of 
lime. Exactly similar strata are exposed at Hughenden Township, in the Chinaman’s 
Gully, and at the washpool from which Daintree obtained some of his fossils. I could 
see, however, only a few Belemnites, and some shells, all in bad preservation. The 
“ damper-shaped nodules ” are, I believe similar to those from which the Wollumhilla 
and Walsh fossils were obtained. 
1 have within the last year or two received several fine specimens of Grioceras, 
some in nodules, from Hughenden Township, and in July, 1891, visited the locality a 
second time. On this occasion I was more successful than on the former, having split 
up many of the “ damper-shaped ” nodules, each of which was found to contain a 
Grioceras or other fossil or fossils. There can he no doubt that the nodules are merely 
concretions occurring in lines along the bedding-planes. 
Mr. George Sweet, of Brunswick, Melbourne, made a collection of fossils from 
Hughenden in 1889, which have not yet, however, been described;* 
The Bolling Downs Formation occupies the district traversed by the Cloncurry 
Boad from W^ongalce, above Hughenden, to Fisher s Creek, near Cloncuiry. 
Eight miles below Hughenden, I saw some oval nodules of limestone, one of 
which, on being split up, was found to be full of fragmentary shells. 
Between fifteen and thirty-nine miles west of Hughenden, frequent outcrops 
Were seen of nodular calcareous sandstone (which had for the most part, when 
Weathered, lost its lime) and of flaggy, fine-grained, pale-brown, tough sandstone. 
Thirty-nino miles below Hughenden, a gully falling into the left bank of the 
Flinders exposes horizontal beds of brown sandstones, with Belemnites and small shells, 
which, however, were not in prescrvable condition. 
Seven miles above Marathon Station, a limestone bed yielded Aucella hughen- 
^snensis, Eth., Inoceramus 2}ernoi(Ies, Eth., and the wing of a Heuropterous insect, 
■^schna flindersensis, Woodward.f One bed of limestone was entirely made up of 
fragments of Inoceramus. 
At Marathon Station I saw the beds of fine-grained buff -yellow sandstone, 
stales, and limestone referred to by Daintree as the source of his fossils, but m 
tke time I could spare (I was hurrying to join the Transcontinental Bailway 
Expedition under General Feilding, at Cloncurry, in the year 1881) I could find 
no fossils well enough preserved to take away, but I saw numerous fragments of 
Inoceramus. . ^ 
Seven miles below Marathon Station I obtained specimens of Inoceramus {ot 
the remains of which one bed was entirely composed) from buff-coloured and reddish 
calcareous sandstones. 
* This Collection has now been ijartially examined (May, 1892), and a few of the results are 
bicorporated in subsequent p.ages of this work. The whole will be subsequently described wiUi other 
b'aterial officially collected in the meantime. (B.E.Junr.) t wUnrlpr.i Tiivpr North 
t On the Wing of a Nenroptorous Insect from the Cretaceous Limestone of Tlinders River, th 
Queensland. By Henry Woodward, L.LD., R.K.S., Geol. Mag- (1884), vol. i., p. 337. 
