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This is the first occasion on which Qlossopieris has been found in Australia 
outside bods of Permo-Carbouiferous age, i.e., beds which could be shown so to be by the 
associated fossils. Hitherto, the occurrence of Qlossopteris in our Palaeozoic, and 
Tosniopieris in the Mesozoic strata, has been regarded as an article of faith, the first 
never having been, to my knowledge, found above the Upper Coal Measures, and the 
second plant below the Clarence Series. So lone has this stood the test of inquiry in 
the field, and so closedy do the leaves found by Mr. Bands correspond to two of .our 
most characteristic Permo-Carboniferous species of Q-loswpteris, that wore it not for a 
personal knowledge of the extreme care and wide stratigraphical experience of my 
Colleague and his Assistant, I should be tempted to question the reference of the beds 
yielding these loaves to the Desert Sandstone Series. It must, at any rate, be regarded 
as a very remarkable survival. In India, it is true, Olossopteris passes, according to 
the stratigraphy of the late Dr. 0. Peistinantel, into the Trias,* and the same appears 
to bo the case in South Africa. There the upward course of Glossopteris, with any 
certainty, appears to cease, according to our previous knowledge of its range in time ; 
for although a species has been described by Prof. Trautschold from the llussian 
Cretaceous, and by Messrs. Yisiani and Massalongo from the Italian Tertiary ,t still, 
these determinations require confirmation. Perhaps the present instance may to some 
extent supply this. 
Mr. JNorman Taylor, when acting as Geologist to AY. II ami’s “Expedition in 
Northern Queensland,” as long ago as 1872, found Olossopteris in a tableland between 
the Mitchell and AYalsh ilivers, to which he in consequence ascribed, and with our then 
knowledge justly so, a Carboniferous age, and it became known as “ Taylor’s Car- 
boniferous Eange.”J The tableland in question, however, according to my Colleague, 
is a denuded fragment of the De.sert Sandstone, and Mr. Taylor’s fossils must in conse- 
quence be added to the list of the Desert Sandstone Flora. 
Loc. Tableland south of Mitchell liiver (AA Taylor') ; Belt’s Creek, near Cape 
Gold Field (IF. H. Bands —QoWn, Geol. Survey, Queensland). 
Kingdom — ANIMALIA. 
Sub-Kingdom— EOJIINODERMATA. 
Class — Echinoidea. 
Order-EUEOHINOIDEA. 
Section— REGULABES (Endoeyclica). 
Family— SPATANGIDiE. 
Genus— MIOBASTEB, Ayassiz, 1831. 
(Prod. Mon. Ead. Echiiiod.) 
Micbastek Swekti, sp. nov. 
Ohs. It affords me much pleasure to associate with this, the first Mesozoic 
Echinoderm described from .Australian rocks, the name of my friend Mr. George Sw'cet, 
of Brunsw'ick, Melbourne, wdio has worked wdth much success amongst the fossiliferous 
rocks of Eastern Australia, and to wdiom I am indebted for the contribution of a largo 
number of specimens. 
* Mem. Geol. Survey N. S. Wale?, Pal. No. 3, 1S90, p. 119. 
+ Feistmantel, loc. cii., jip. 119, 120. 
J Proc. E. Gengr. Soc., 1874, xviii., p. 92. 
