Australasian Fossils: A Students' Manual of PalaeontologyChapman, Frederick
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Australasian Fossils: A Students' Manual of Palaeontology
Chapman, Frederick
Paleontology -- Australia
The Upper Devonian Series at Nyrang Creek near Canowindra, New South
Wales, contains a _Lingula_ (_L. gregaria_) associated with the
_Lepidodendron_ plant beds of that locality.
Queensland Devonian rocks contain _Pentamerus_, _Atrypa_ and _Spirifer_.
In Western Australia the Devonian species are _Atrypa reticularis_,
_Spirifer_ cf _verneuili_, _S. musakheylensis_ and _Uncinulus_ cf.
_timorensis_.
=Carboniferous Brachiopods.--=
The Carboniferous Brachiopod fauna is represented in New South Wales at
Clarence Town and other localities by a species which has an extensive
time-range, _Leptaena rhomboidalis_ var. _analoga_, and the following,
a few of which extend upwards into the Carbopermian:--_Chonetes
papilionacea_, _Productus semireticulatus_, _P. punctatus_, _P. cora_,
_Orthothetes crenistria_, _Orthis (Rhipidomella) australis_, _O.
(Schizophoria) resupinata_, _Spirifer striatus_, _S. bisulcatus_, _Cyrtina
carbonaria_ and _Athyris planosulcatus_.
In New Zealand the Matai series, referred to the Jurassic by Hutton, as
formerly regarded by Hector, and latterly by Park, as of Carboniferous
age, on the ground of a supposed discovery of _Spirifer subradiatus_ (_S.
glaber_) and _Productus brachythaerus_ in the Wairoa Gorge. Although these
species may not occur, the genera _Spirifer_ and _Productus_ are present,
which, according to Dr. Thomson, are distinctly of pre-Triassic types.
[Illustration: =Fig. 87--CARBOPERMIAN BRACHIOPODS.=
A--Productus brachythaerus, Sow. Carbopermian. New South Wales, &c.
B--Strophalosia clarkei, Eth. sp. Carbopermian. N.S.W., &c.
C--Spirifer convolutus, Phillips. Carbopermian. N.S.W., &c.
D--Spirifer (Martiniopsis) subradiatus, Sow. Carbopermian. New South
Wales, &c.
]
=Carbopermian Brachiopods.--=
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