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More recently, however, Prof. E. Tate has proposed* * * § for this Belemnite the 
above name, and believes that the oblique lateral furrows, and the absence of apical 
furrows, place it near B. australis, Phill. 
Loc. A\''ol]umbilla {The late Bev. W. B. Clarice). 
Belemnites Sellheimi, Ten. Woods, PI. 35, tigs. 10 and 11. 
Belemniles ScUheimi, Ten. Woods, Journ. R. Soc. N. S. Wales for 1882 [1883], xvi., p. 150, t. 7, f. 1. 
Sjy. Char. Phragmacone extending at an angle of 17°, circular, broken at each 
end ; 100 mm. long, 45 mm. at broad end, and 15 mm. at narrow end ; chambers twenty- 
five in number, slightly oblique, advancing a little on the dorsal face, and retiring on the 
ventral, with slight lateral flexure ; an obscure carina on the dorsal face, with a distinct 
shallow groove for the whole length. {Ten. Woods.) 
Obs. Although a portion of a phragmacone is hardly the material on which to 
establish a species, this name will suffice to distinguish that part of an undoubtedly 
large Belemnite which occurs in the “Rolling Downs Formation.” 
It is very probable, as stated by Mr. Woods, that B. Selliieimi corresponds to a 
large phragmacone of doubtful affinity described by Prof. Phillips, from Wollumbilla,t 
and may be identical with it. He says — “Phragmacone 5’5 inches long, its greatest 
diameter 1'75, the section nearly circular. Above forty septa can he counted ; and the 
whole number must have been fifty, without reaching the last chamber. The septa are 
a little oblique, advancing in the dorsal and retiring a little on the ventral face, with a 
slight lateral flexure. Depth of the chambers about one-sixth of the diameter. 
Siphuncle clearly internal, its section rather elliptical. The phragmacone is nearly 
straight, with an angle of 18°.” 
Many years ago the late Rev. W. B. Clarke J named a Belemnite from the same 
locality as B. Barhlyi, but all that is known of this is a remai’k by Prof. P. McCoy,§ 
A large species .... nearly related to the gigantic species of the Lower Oolite 
and Lias of Eiu’ope, but which cannot he fully characterised from the present specimen, 
as all the posterior portion of the guard is broken away.” Possibly this may he Mr. 
Wood’s species also. 
My Colleague’s Collection contains a portion of a phragmacone consisting of five 
chambers, not far removed from the proximal end, one and a-quarter inches in diameter, 
and each about three-eighths of an inch deep (PI. 35, figs. 10 and 11). The length is 
one inch, and the siphon small and quite internal. The fragment, so far as preserved, 
Js rather straight- walled, with an ill-defined dorsal carina and a faint groove. The 
septa advance on the dorsal .side and retreat on the ventral, and laterally have a slight 
flexure. In a great measure agrees with Phillips’ phragmacone above described, hut is 
®till more in accord with Woods’ B. Selliieimi. 
In the Queensland Museum is a still more perfect phragmacone five inches in 
length with a proximal diameter of two inches, and a distal of three-quarters of an inch 
Without having attained the terminal chamber. There are portions of about twenty-six 
chambers preserved. 
Loo. Palmer River (P. F. Sellheim) ; Wollumbilla {The late Bev. W. B. Clarice) ; 
I’linders River, near Hughenden {Bev. T. W. Bamm) ; Walsh River {C. W. Be Vis — 
Queensland Museum, Brisbane). 
* Proe. Austr. Assoc. Adv. Soi. for 1888 [1889], i., p. 229. 
+ Quart. Journ. Geol. Soc., 1870, x.xvi., p. 268. 
tibid., 1862, xviii., p. 246. 
§ Trans. II. Soc. Viet., 1865, vi., p. 43. 
