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In Western Australia traces of these Marine beds have been 
detected and announced by Mr. Gregory. And in extension of 
the formation northwards beyond the limits of Australia, it is 
well known by more than one observer that Carboniferous beds 
exist in the Island of Timor, where Beyrick discovered several of 
our New South Wales species, c.g ., &'pirifer lineatus , Sp. y 
Tasmaniensis , Product us semireticulatus , P. punctatus , dfc. 
(“Acad, des Sciences de Berlin” 1861.) 
My own collections received in 1874 from Queensland some 
interesting additions, which arrived too late to form part of the 
contribution to the Daintree Collection. 
Among these fossils, from the head of Bee Creek (Fort Cooper), 
I find Pecten, 8pirifer, Trochus, and magnificent specimens of 
Productus, and a variety of usually associated shells, and with 
them in the same brown ferruginous grit and shale-beds well- 
depicted Glossopteris , and some other plants, one fragment of 
which appears to be of a Dietgoptcris. 
This mention of Glossopteris will lead to considerable discus¬ 
sion respecting its occurrence in beds interpolating in the Marine 
fossiliferous strata, as well as occurring in the shales of the Coal- 
seams on the Hunter Biver and elsewhere in New South A Vales 
and in Queensland. 
Mr. Daintree, F.G.S., (“ Notes on Gcolor/g of Queenslandf 
Q.J.G.S. xxviii, p. 286) gives a section from the Coal-seams near 
the Nebo Crossing of the Bowen lliver, of Coal-seams with frag¬ 
ments of Glossopteris underlying Productus and Spirifer beds 
several hundred feet thick, with abundance of other Carboniferous 
mollusca, the strata being upheaved by porphyry, and the lower 
beds resting upon it. The beds are " quite conformable.” At the 
junction of the creek the argillaceous Marine beds are surmounted 
by others consisting of “ coarse grits and sandstones with inter- 
stratified shales. In these the impressions of Glossopteris are very 
common and sometimes beautifully preserved ; but,” he adds, “ 1 
have never been able to find the fauna and flora unmistakeably 
represented in the same bed.” 
This admission as to that particular locality has been used 
against the evidence of the beds themselves as to their position 
by the author of u Beport of Progress bg B. B. Smyth, No. I Ilf 
1876, p. 59, who states that “ any misapprehension in regard to 
the age of the Mesozoic Coals of New South Wales, probably, is 
duo to the accidental or apparent conformableness of the Meso¬ 
zoic strata to the underlying Carboniferous (Paleozoic) rocks” !! 
I n addition to the evidence from the junction of Nebo Creek and 
Bowen Biver, Mr. Daintree cites, with a section, the facts 
observed at Pelican Creek, where he shows “ Marine beds resting 
directly on a Coal seam.” “ At the base of this cliff a seam of Coal 
about 4 feet thick crops out the entire length of the section. 
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