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Sedimentary Formations 
“ b .—The Lower Coal Measures, are marked by two Marino 
faunas of, ns generally taken, a Carboniferous age, which 
separate distinctly these from the Upper beds. The 
flora is, as both Mr. Clarke and Mr. Daintree state, only 
rare. 
Below this there are beds with real Lower Carboniferous 
plants.” 
Dr. Feistmantel then gives the succession of the several strata 
as I had communicated it to him in a table, and after it a list of 
plants which he “ has seen, or which are mentioned as really 
occurring,” viz. :— 
“a .— Upper Coal Measures. 
“ (1.) Prom Queensland. 
*• (2.) Tasmania. 
“ (3.) Victoria. 
“ (L) From the Wianamatta and Hawkesbury, we have 
mostly Dichoptcris, Thinnfcldia, Uecopteris odontoptcr - 
oiefes, Morr., Tamioptcris, &e.; and in both the same 
genus of a fish. 
“ (5.) From the Clarence Fiver District .—Tccuiopferis with 
narrow leaves, and a coniferous branch, which Mr. 
Clarke himself marked (?) Yoltzia. 
“ (b.) Bowenfolls and .Newcastle.—Here the flora is mostly 
developed ; Yertehraria, real Phyllothcca , many Glossop- 
teri.it (but few identical with those of India), mostly 
Gloss. Browniana , Bgt., coniferous plants near the 
Mesozoic Echinoslrobus , coniferous seed-vessels and 
others, but no animal fossils, nor Lower Carboniferous 
plants. 
“ b .— Lower Coal Measures. 
“ I have seen Tmnioplcris, near Teen. Eckardi, Germ., Gloss- 
opteris , small specimens; besides these there are quoted Phyllo- 
theca and Nceygerathia. With these arc associated Carboniferous 
(in M.S. 6 animal ') fossils. 
il c .— Strata below — With Cyclosliyma KiltorJcqnuw, Ilaught., 
It ha copter is, Splienophylliun (real Palaeozoic form). 
These I have seen myself. And again a Paheozoic 
(Carboniferous) fauna. 
‘‘From this we see the following: Only the strata sub b can 
claim a Paleozoic age, containing a prevailingly Carboniferous 
fauna, which already in c occurs together with a paheozoic flora. 
The flora in b is very poor, containing only few forms, which (see 
remarks p. 1(15) arc so frequent in the upper strata ; and to uso 
Mr. Clarke’s own words about the Glossopteris, we may say,— 
‘ There (in the Australian Lower Coal-beds) it clearly does not 
