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possible resemblance to tbe skull from King’s Creek, but smaller in size, appear to put 
it beyond doubt that these fossils are Chelonian and not Lacertiliau. They are believed 
to be most nearly allied to CTidydra and Qypochelys, Cryptodiran genera. A full 
explanation of this matter will be found a few pages further on. 
The occurrence of this genus of Chelonia in Queensland is exceedingly interest- 
ing, because the section of the order to which it appertains is not otherwise represented 
in Australia. This statement of Prof. Huxley’s has been controverted by Mr. G-. A. 
Boulenger,* * * § who considers that Meiolania is a member of the group to which the 
Australian forms belong — viz., the Pleurodira. The balance of evidence, however, 
favours Prof. Huxley’s view.f In concluding a brief review of this subject Mr. E. 
Lydekker makes the following pertinent remarks J; — “Perhaps the acquisition of the 
plastron may be necessary before we can be absolutely certain as to the Pleurodiran 
nature of Miolania, but in the first place distributional evidence is very strongly in 
favour of this view, while the osteological evidence adduced by Boulenger seems still 
more so. That the genus represents a distinct family there can be no question whatever. 
Loo. and Horizon. King’s Creek, Darling Downs ((?. F. Bennett — CoUn. Brit. 
Mus.) — Pluviatile deposits. 
Family— CHELTID.^:. 
Genus — CHELOBINA, Fitzinger, 1826. 
(N. Class Kept., p. 6.)§ 
ChELOMNA EONGICOILIS, Shaw. 
Testudo longicolUs, Shaw, Gen. Zool., 1802, iii., p. 62, 1. 16. 
Chelodina longicoUis, Gray, Syn. Kept., 1831, p. 39. 
„ ,, Lydekker, Cat. Foss. Eeptilia and Amphibia Brit. Mus., 1889, Ft. 3, p. 168. 
Ols. The British Museum Collection contains an imperfect nuchal bone, a 
tenth marginal bone of the right side, and a small right humerus, said to be of this 
species. 
Loo. and Horizon. Westbrook, branch of Oakey Creek, Condamine Eiver (JDr. 
G. Bennett — CoUn. Brit. Mus.) — Fluviatile deposits. 
Order— lACEETILIA. 
Family— AHAMID^. 
Genus— CHLAMTDOSAUEUS, J. E. Gray, 1827. 
(P. P. King’s Survey, Coasts of Australia, ii., p. 424.) 
CmAMTUosATJEtrs Beotettii, Owen, m.s. 
Chlamydosaurus Benncttii, Owen in Bennett, Papers and Proc. K. Soe. Tas. for 1875 [1876], p. 57. 
„ Kingi, Lydekker (now. Gray), Cat. Foss. Eeptilia and Amphibia Brit. Mus. , Pt. 1, 1888, p. 276. 
Ohs. The Frilled Lizard (C Kingii, Gray), appears to be represented in the 
Quaternary Deposits of Queensland by an extinct species which has received the ms. 
name of G. Bennettii, Owen. 
The remains, consisting of part of a jaw with teeth, were found by Mr. G. P. 
Bennett, and forwarded to Prof. Sir E. Owen, but the fragment has never been 
* Proc. Zool. Soc., 1887, Pt. 3, p. 564; Ann. and Mag. Nat. Hist., 1889, iii., p. 138. 
+ See Bauer, Ann. and Mag. Nat. Hist., 1889, iii., p. 64. 
t Cat. Foss. Eeptilia and Amphibia Brit. Mus., Pt. 3, 1889, p. 160. 
§ Fide Lydekker, Cat. Foss. Eeptilia and Amphibia Brit. Mus., Pt. 3, 1889, p. 168. 
