T. SPRATT ON THE COAL-BEARING DEPOSITS NEAR EREKLI.
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Discussion.
Mr. Etheridge stated that the fossils and rocks were undoubtedly truly of Carboniferous age, and from our ordinary experience would be regarded as rather low down in the series. He noticed the species of plants which occurred among Admiral Spratt's specimens, and dwelt especially on the presence of Stigmaria ficoïdes. He also referred to the existence among them of what appeared to be a species of Glossopteris, and said that although this genus of ferns had been regarded as peculiarly Jurassic in Western Europe, it had been discovered in what appeared to be true Carboniferous deposits in Queensland by Mr. Daintree, and hence its occurrence in a similar position in this intermediate locality was particularly interesting.
