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junction to the Railway Bridge, Dalby Line, has only had a few stray bones found in it, 
as the black soil there is very deep, and, in my opinion, the strata containing the fossils 
are only just now becoming exposed ; but from thence to the boundary of Gowrie is 
very rich. 
“ To return to the consideration of the localities in which fossil remains are to be 
found, I think I can put the boundaries pretty well from Gowrie to Spring Creek, 
Chfton (none are recorded as being found in Dalrymple Creek, on the AVarwick side of 
Spring Creek) ; thence to the Condamine River, and along its eastern bank as far as 
Chinchilla (where I have seen specimens embedded in the rock). These boundaries 
include Eton Vale, Clifton, Pilton, Gowrie, Yandilla, Cecil Plains, St. Ruth, Jimbour, 
and Warra Warra, Jimbour Station being the northern boundary.” 
Mr. Samuel Stutchbury refers* to “the cementation of drifted matter [on 
the Darling Downs] such as pebble, shingle, frequently containing fragments of the 
bones of extinct animals, many of them being much abraded by rolling, whilst others, 
together with the exuvia of fresh-water mollusks of existing species (the TInios only 
differing from their having attained a larger size and thickness), are found drifted 
together with little or no injury, and cemented by calc-sinter, calcareous tufa, 
and travertin.” He adds : “ Bones have been found at all the various depths at 
which the alluvial soil of the plains has been penetrated, even from wells at a 
depth of sixty or more feet, as was the case in sinking a well at Nombi, on the 
Liverpool Plains; therefore, the race of animals now extinct must have existed 
throughout the period of time necessary for the accumulation of the vast amount of 
alluvial drift ; or the drift must have undergone many mutations, by being swept away 
and being redeposited.” 
In a later Report t Mr. Stutchbury mentions the following localities from which 
bones of extinct animals have been obtained : — King’s Creek, Emu Creek, Hodgson 
Creek, Clifton, Gowrie Creek, Myall Creek, Bowra Creek, and Dalby. Erom this 
Report the following stratigraphical notes are taken : — 
“King’s Creek presents a succession of waterholes, circular, oval, and linear, and 
exhibits on the banks, by successive layers of shells, distinct periods of deposition ; this 
is particularly apparent near Clifton, the bed of the creek being composed of a peculiar 
conglomerate made up of debris containing shells, bones, &c., and cemented with lime ; 
fossil trunks of coniferous trees upon the same level were observed in situ as if cleanly 
sawn ; above this the deposits of different periods may be clearly traced.” 
“Crossing Gowrie Creek, I proceeded to the junction of Oakey and Pitt’s Creek 
with AVestbrook Creek ; the banks in many instances exposed a reddish marble 
containing calcareous tufa and fragments of bone. 
“ I was shown at Dalby the jaw of a wombat (^Pliascolomys MitolielU) and other 
larger bones, obtained at a depth of sixty feet from the surface while sinking a umll. 
The fact of bones being found at such depths, while in other places they are near the 
surface, would, at first sight, appear to be evidence of their having existed throughout 
the period of time necessary for the deposit of sixty or more feet of alluvial matter. 
This, I presume, is not the case, but that their being found at such depth results in 
[from] the watersheds [water-channels] having altered their courses, and carrying the 
bones with the other drift, and filling up and levelling some large waterhole; the bones, 
from their size and lightness, being the first deposited.” 
♦ Eleventh Tri-monthly Report upon the Geological and Mineralogioal Structure of New South Wales. 
Sydney : Legislative Council Pa'pers : 1853. 
t Twelfth Tri-monthly Report, &c. Sydney : Legislative Council Papers ; 1854. 
