Papers and proceedings of the Royal Society of Tasmania (1884) (14765518374)

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Title: Papers and proceedings of the Royal Society of Tasmania

Year: 1863 (1860s)

Authors: Royal Society of Tasmania

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Publisher: Hobart, The Society

Contributing Library: Harvard University, Museum of Comparative Zoology, Ernst Mayr Library

Digitizing Sponsor: Harvard University, Museum of Comparative Zoology, Ernst Mayr Library

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eyond allreasonable doubt, and now there is every reason to believethat the Table Cape beds, with their Australian equivalents,mark the earliest dawn of the eocene period in Australia.In conclusion, I may venture to prophecy, notwithstandingthe gap between the cretaceous rocks of Maryborough,Queensland, and the eocene beds of Table Cape, that the dayis not far distant when passage beds will be discovered con-necting these systems more closely together, if not completelymerging the one insensibly into the other. DISCOVERY OF ENTOMOSTRACA IN THE UPPERMEMBERS OF THE TRAVERTIN BEDS, GEILSTON,AND A DESCRIPTION OF A NEW SPECIES OFCYPRIS. By Robt. M. Johnston, F.L.S., Etc. (Bead June 9, 1884.) Cypris Alburyana (n. s.). Carapace oblong-oval, somewhat flattened on one side ; valves convex, smooth, shining, white ; breadth contained in length two-and-a-half times ; length usually fmil. Gregarious in the altered opalescent rock overlying the basalt in the Travertin Limestone Quarry at G-eilston.

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/ Ze-jpu^ostrobus ,j7£?z#Zlerif Jo Tins ton. T^rom^ (7o aZ ^7/£eas wes S ands ton& Cump ojzio^, 225 Specimens of this freshwater entoniostracan were collectedby me some two or three years ago in. abundance at G-eilston.It is an interesting form, as it affords us valuable informationregarding the condition under which opal-like rock wasformed prior to the peculiar change in its structure. DISCOVERY OF A CONE, PROBABLY OF A SPECIESOF LEPIDOSTROBUS, IN THE SANDSTONESOF CAMPANIA. By Eobt. M. Johnston, F.L.S., Etc.(Bead June 13, 1882 ; accidentally omitted from Proceedings ofthe year 1882.)The very interesting impression in the block of sandstoneappears to be the remains of a narrow, oblong, cylindricalstrobilus, or cone, of a species of Lepidostrobus. Itmeasures about 41 inches long and f inch in diameter.The strobilus agrees with genera) characters of thegenus Lepidostrobus, having a central axis through-out its whole length, which is longitudinally striated,from whence radiate upw

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