Australasian Fossils: A Students' Manual of PalaeontologyChapman, Frederick
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Australasian Fossils: A Students' Manual of Palaeontology
Chapman, Frederick
Paleontology -- Australia
Whilst many of the older Tertiary brachiopods range into the next
succeeding stage of the Kalimnan in Victoria, such as _Magellania
insolita_, _Terebratulina_ catinuliformis_ (Fig. 89 E) and _Magasella
compta_, one species, _Terebratella pumila_, is restricted to the
Kalimnan, occurring at the Gippsland Lakes.
The next stage, the Werrikooian, typical in upraised marine beds on the
banks of the Glenelg River in western Victoria, contains _Magellania
flavescens_, a species still living (see _antea_, Fig. 23), and _M.
insolita_, having the extraordinarily wide range of the whole of the
Cainozoic stages in southern Australia.
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COMMON OR CHARACTERISTIC FOSSILS OF THE FOREGOING CHAPTER.
WORMS.
_Eunicites mitchelli_, Eth. fil. Silurian: New South Wales.
_Oenonites hebes_, Eth. fil. Silurian: New South Wales.
_Arabellites bowningensis_, Eth. fil. Silurian: New South Wales.
_Arenicolites_ sp. Silurian: New South Wales.
_Trachyderma crassituba_, Chapm. Silurian: Victoria.
_Cornulites tasmanicus_, Eth. fil. Silurian: Tasmania.
_Spirorbis ammonius_, M. Edw. var. _truncata_, Chapm. Mid. Devonian:
Victoria.
_Spirorbis omphalodes_, Goldfuss. Devonian: W. Australia.
_Serpula testatrix_, Eth. fil. Carbopermian: New South Wales.
_Torlessia mackayi_, Bather. Lower Mesozoic: New Zealand.
_Serpula conformis_, Goldfuss. Jurassic: W. Australia.
_Serpula intestinalis_, Phillips. Lower Cretaceous: Queensland.
_Serpula subtrachinus_, Eth. fil. Lower Cretaceous: New South Wales.
_Serpula ouyenensis_, Chapm. Cainozoic: Victoria.
_Ditrupa cornea_, L. sp. var. _wormbetiensis_, McCoy. Cainozoic:
Victoria.
POLYZOA.
_Rhombopora gippslandica_, Chapm. Silurian: Victoria.
_Fenestella australis_, Chapm. Silurian: Victoria.
_Protoretepora ampla_, Lonsdale. Carbopermian: W. Australia, New South
Wales, Queensland, and Tasmania.
_Polypora australis_, Hinde. Carbopermian: W. Australia.
_Rhombopora tenuis_, Hinde. Carbopermian: W. Australia.
_Rhombopora laxa_, Etheridge sp. Carbopermian: Queensland.
_Membranipora wilsonensis_, Eth. fil. Lower Cretaceous: New South
Wales.
(?) _Lepralia oolitica_, Moore. Lower Cretaceous: Queensland.
_Lichenopora australis_, MacGillivray. Cainozoic: Victoria.
_Heteropora pisiformis_, MacGillivray. Cainozoic: Victoria.
_Cellaria australis_, MacGillivray. Cainozoic: Victoria.
_Membranipora macrostoma_, Reuss. Cainozoic: Victoria (also living).
_Selenaria marginata_, T. Woods. Cainozoic: Victoria (also living).
_Macropora clarkei_, T. Woods sp. Cainozoic: Victoria.
_Adeona obliqua_, MacGill. Cainozoic: Victoria.
_Lepralia burlingtoniensis_, Waters. Cainozoic: Victoria.
_Bipora philippinensis_, Busk sp. Cainozoic: Victoria (also living).
_Porina gracilis_, M. Edwards sp. Cainozoic: Victoria (also living).
_Cellepora fossa_, Haswell, sp. Cainozoic: Victoria (also living).
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