8.—ON THE OCCURRENCE OF MIOCENE STRATA AT 
HORSHAM. 
(By J. JDennant , F. G.S ., F.C.S.) 
A few months ago a parcel of fossil shells was handed to me for examin¬ 
ation by J. M. Reed, Esq., Surveyor-General. They came from a well on 
Walmer Estate, near the south-east corner of allotment 2, section B., parish 
of Yectis East, and about 4 or 5 miles north-west from Horsham. 
The depth from which the shells were obtained is estimated at from 60 to 
100 feet from the surface. Many of them are in good condition and easily 
identifiable ; some, however, are either worn examples, or are represented 
by fragments only. 
The species present are the following :— 
Terebra, sp. cijf. T. additoides (also in Miocene of Muddy Creek). 
Bathytoma, n. sp. (probably in Miocene of Gippsland Lakes). 
Pleurotoma ? sp. 
Cancellaria, n. sp. 
Ancilla hebera ? 
Eburnopsis ? sp. (fragment). 
Fusus, sp. (imperfect examples). 
Cominella, sp. (much worn). 
Murex, sp. (fragment). 
Lampusia, sp. (also in Miocene of Gippsland Lakes). 
Trivia, n. sp. (fragment; also in Miocene of Gippsland Lakes). 
Turritella pagodula. 
Natica subvarians. 
Natica subinfundibulum. 
Axinaea convexa. 
„ laticostata. 
„ cainozoica. 
Limopsis forskali. 
Cucullsea corioensis. 
Trigonia howitti. 
Cardita pecten, var. 
Cardita spinulosa (worn). 
Dosinia johnstoni. 
Chione subroborata. 
Corbula ephamilla. 
Myadora corrugata. 
Myadora, sp. (fragment). 
Echinus, sp. (spines). 
This list of fossils represents, of course, a Miocene deposit on the same 
horizon as the Upper Muddy Creek and Gippsland Lakes’ beds. Some of 
the shells are encrusted with the earthy matrix, and from its appearance I 
judge that the strata are lithologically similar to the well-known Grange 
Burn and Muddy Creek Miocene. 
By the discovery of these shells at Horsham the area of the Miocene in 
Victoria is considerably extended, the previously recorded deposits of that age 
being at the Gippsland Lakes, Bairnsdale, Port Phillip Bay, Moorarbool (?) 
and Leigh rivers, and Muddy Creek. 
