CATALOGUE OF THE DESCRIBED SPECIES OF FOSSILS 
(EXCEPT BRYOZOA AND FORAMINIFE R A) IN THE 
CAINOZOIC FAUNA OF VICTORIA, SOUTH AUSTRALIA 
AND TASMANIA. 
(By John Dennant , F.G.S., F.C.S ., and A. E. Kitson , F.G.S .) 
In this catalogue three main horizons are recognised, viz., Eocene 
(including Oligocene), Miocene, and Pliocene. The late Professor Tate an¬ 
nounced a succession table for the Pre-Miocene Cainozoic beds in June, 1899,* 
which has been mainly, but not entirely, followed by the compilers of the 
present catalogue. There is no difficulty in regard to the Miocene or Pliocene 
marine Cainozoic, hut with the Eocene of most authors there is a diversity 
of opinion as to the relative horizons of certain beds.f 
Of the four groups into which the Eocene to Oligocene deposits are here 
divided, Group A includes the Lower and Middle Eocene of Tate, and Group 
B his Upper Eocene. Group C records the fossils belonging to the Table 
Gape and Spring Creek deposits. By Tate they have been named Post 
Eocene (Oligocene ?), while by Messrs. Hall and Pritchard they are placed 
on a lower horizon than the distinctly Eocene Mornington beds. Their 
separate grouping in this catalogue of species is intended to imply that no 
opinion is expressed concerning the relative age of the beds in question. 
Those interested in the matter should consult the original memoirs. 
The Beaumaris and Murray Desert beds are bracketed by Tate with 
those at Spring Creek and Table Cape, but the authors just mentioned have 
suggested that in the sections at Beaumaris, Royal Park, &c., there are two 
deposits, of which the upper is Miocene and the lower Eocene. The evidence 
adduced is not considered sufficient to establish the dual character of these 
deposits, and they are consequently still regarded as single ones. They are 
here linked with the Murray Desert section as Group D, to which the term 
Oligocene is provisionally applied. 
The Waurn Ponds, Maude, and Fishing Point beds are tentatively 
included in the B group. For the minor deposits, “other localities” of the 
catalogue, the grouping is not specified. In most instances, however, it is 
plain, owing to the same species being also entered in the numbered 
columns. 
Bibliogkaphy. 
The various books and papers referred to for the descriptions and 
distribution of the fossils catalogued are :— 
Clark, E. V.— 
“Notes on the Geology of the Ninety-Mile Desert,” Royal Soc. 
South Austr., 1896. 
“ Geological Notes on the Cliffs separating Aldinga and Myponga 
Bays.” Royal Soc. South Austr., 1899. 
Cossmann, M.— 
“ The Gastropods of the Older Tertiary of Australia—Les Opistho- 
branchs.” Royal Soc. South Austr., 1897. 
* Tate, on some Older Tertiary Fossils of Uncertain Age from ‘the Murray Desert. 
Hoy. Soc. South Australia, Yol. XXIII., p. 107. 
t Editor’s Note.—The classification and correlation in the Catalogue are the authors’, and 
not necessarily to be generally adopted for the use of the Geological Survey.—J. W. G. 
