172 N. Z. FOSSILS. 
A.—POST-TERTIARY. 
a.—RAISED BEACHES. 
I. — Upper Wancanur Bens. 
An open Sandy matrix containing the Shells jp 
excellent state of preservation. The formation jg 
one hundred feet in thickness near the coast at the 
mouth of the Wanganui River, but thins out inland, 
being ony, four feet thick where it rests on the Blye 
Clay, or Struthiolaria Beds, in the Shakespere Olifr 
opposite the Town of Wanganui. 
1 Murex. 25 Pecten Zelandix, 
2 Fusus. | 26 Pecten rudis. 
3 Fusus. 27 Lima. 
4 Triton. . 8x °D. 
5 Cassis. 28 Pinna. 
6 Ancillaria. 73x 2:6. 
7 Voluta. 29 Mytilus magellanicus, 
8 Natica. 30 Pectunculus. 
Mtb oe WSS: 4-0 x 4:0 oblique. 
9 Struthiolaria straminea | 31 Pectunculus. 
10 Turritella. 2:3 xa2:D.) 
DRE 56 Of 32 Pectunculus. 
11 Turritella. 40x 3-0. 
10x °3. } 33 Pectunculus. 
12 Imperator. 6x 6. 
13 Trochus. 34 Lucina. 
14 Rotella. 18x 1:8. 
15 Crepidula. 35 Lucina. 
16 Pileopsis. 6 x °6. 
17 Calyptreea. 36 Venericardia. 
18 Trochita. 37 Cardium. 
19 Waldheimia. 838 Venus, ridged. 
20 Terebratula. 39 Venus, striated. 
21 Terebratella. 40. Venus, mottled. 
22 Rhynconella nigricans. | 41 Tapes. 
23 Ostrea. 42 Mactra. 
4-0 x 3:0. 2:8 x 3:9. 
24 Pecten laticostatus. 
* Dimensions in inches and decimal parts. 
