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Description of Fossils from the Kimberley District, 1 Western Australia

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 May 2009

Arthur H. Foord
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Several of the tubes of this singular genus are exposed in section on the weathered (water-worn ?) surface of a piece of limestone. The tubes are of an elongate conical form, rather rapidly tapering, and straight or slightly curved, the longest about 10 lines; each contains several smaller tubes one within the other, the last of these little hollow cones being the chamber of habitation. The shell is thick, and has consequently not been crushed, two or three of the inner tubes retaining their cylindrical form, as seen in the section Fig. 1b.

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Geological Magazine , Volume 7 , Issue 3 , March 1890 , pp. 98 - 106
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1890

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Footnotes

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The following is Mr. E. T. Hardman's classification of the rocks in this District:—

See his reports on the Geology of the Kimberley District, “Western Australia (Perth, W. A., 1884 and 1885; with lists of fossils, rocks, and minerals, maps and plates).

References

page 98 note 2 Palæcozoic Fossils, vol. i. 1861–65, p. 17 (1861). Mr. Billings originally described three species, viz. S. pulchella, S. rugosa, and S. obtusa, but the last is, according to the excellent authority, C. D. Walcott, a species of Hyolithes.

page 99 note 1 Second Contribution to the Studies on the Cambrian Faunas of North America, Bull United States Geol. Surv. No. 30, 1886, pp. 131, 143.

page 99 note 2 Syst. Sil. de la Bohême, 1867, vol. iii. p. 138.

page 99 note 3 Second Contribution on the Cambrian Faunas of N. America, Bull. U.S. Geol. Surv. No. 30, 1886, pp. 20–24.

page 100 note 1 For the history of the generic names Conocephalus, Conocoryphe, Ptychoparia and Conocephalites, see Bull. United States Geol. Surv., No. 10, 1884; C. D. Walcott, “On the Cambrian Faunas of North America,” p. 34. See also Dr. H. Woodward, On the same subject, in Quart. Journ. Geol. Soc. 1888, vol. xliv. p. 77, footnote.

page 100 note 2 This fossil is in a precisely similar mineral condition to the other Brachiopods from the same locality.

page 102 note 1 “Report on the Geology of the Kimberley District,” 1885, p. 25.

page 102 note 2 Mr. Kidston rejects Knorria, and says that “the plants for which it was formed are merely imperfectly preserved examples of Lepidodenion, and perhaps also individuals of other genera.” See Cat. Palæozoic Plants in Depart, of Geol. and Palæont., British Museum (Nat. Hist.), by K. Kidston, F.G.S., 1886, pp. 167, 174.

page 104 note 2 See “Notes on a Collection of Fossils and of Rock-specimens from West Australia, north of the Gascoyne River,” by W. H. Hudleston, F.R.S., in the Quart. Journ. Geol. Soc. 1883, vol. xxxix. p. 582, where references to previous reports on the geology of this region may be found. The evidence afforded by the fossils of the Gascoyne River district (and those of a similar horizon from the Irwin River in the southern part of West Australia, and the Fitzroy River in the northern) is quite confirmatory of Mr Hudleston's views as to the age of the Australian Carboniferous, viz. that it corresponds with the Lower, rather than the Upper Carboniferous of other countries.