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would, therefore, be of some importance if the beds of Victoria were really con¬ 
nected with the Jurassic jrlant-beds of Queensland. As it is, there is really no 
evidence, except the plants, to show that the Victoria beds ai’e mesozoic. 
Ganoid fish of Australian beds. —Before leaving the Austr-alian beds I have to 
call attention to the very important evidence as to the age of the whole series in 
New South Wales, afforded by the remains of fish. I have already shown that 
Dr. Feistmantcl is mistaken in saying that the upper coal measures of Australia 
contain no animals, and that he has himself mentioned those animals in another 
page. The known forms consist of ganoid fishes, and the following have been 
described and figured 
Pal/Boniscus antifodeus. From Wyanamatta beds. 
Ghleithrolepis granulatus. Cockatoo beds between Wyanamatta and Hawkes- 
bury. 
Myriolepis Glarhei. 
Urosthenes Australis. Newcastle bods. 
The question of the relations of these fish has been thoroughly stated by Sir 
P. Egerton,' certainly one of the highest living authorities, and he conclude.s 
thus ^— 
“ With regard to the larger question of geological period, there apppears to be sufficient 
evidence to stamp these remains as belonging to the palaeozoic age.” 
He proceeds to give the range of the nearest allies in Europe, and to show that 
representatives of all the forms named are associated in the greatest numbers in 
permian strata (Kupferscheifer). It would be easy to quote authorities for the 
much greater importance to bo attached to fish remains as evidence of age 
than to plants, all I have to do now is to point out that the evidence of 
the fish tends to place the whole of the New South Wales rocks from the 
Wyanamatta beds downwards in the palmozoic epoch. It is quite true that 
in his later papers Mr. Clarke has classed the Wyanamatta and Hawkesbury 
beds as lower mesozoic, and probably he is right in doing so, but the plant 
evidence in favour of this view is of precisely the same nature as that on the 
strength of which Olossopteris Browniana and its carboniferous associates were 
long classed as Jurassic. Probably the Wyanamatta and Hawkesbury beds are of 
the sarue ago as some of the rocks in Victoria, and they may be approximately of 
triassic age, or they may be partly permian or intermediate between permian 
and trias, but their horizon is not ascertained with accuracy. 
Glossopteris beds in South Africa. —There is another locality in the southern 
hemisphere, whore, apparently, representatives of the Damuda formation may 
be traced. Dr. Feistmantel’s principal object being to trace the connexion 
between the Damuda plants and the mesozoic flora of Europe, he has alluded 
but briefly to the African rocks. ^ They are important because although very 
> Q. J. G. S., 1863, vol. XX, p. 1. p. 4. 
3 Ecc. G. S, I., Vol! IX, p, 71. 
