. Australasian fossils, a students' manual of palaeontology. Paleontology. BIRDS. 281 Victorian Cainozoic Bird.— The impression of a bird's feather, probably of a Wader, has lately been described from Western Victoria (see antea Fig. 16 and Fig. 135). This occurs in ironstone, on the surface of which are also impressions of Gum {Eucalyptus) and Native Honey- suckle (Banksia) leaves, of species closely related to those now growing in the same locality. This iron- stone is probably of Janjukian age, and may there- fore be coincident with the New Zealand occurrence of the Palaeeudyptes in the Oam
. Australasian fossils, a students' manual of palaeontology. Paleontology. BIRDS. 281 Victorian Cainozoic Bird.— The impression of a bird's feather, probably of a Wader, has lately been described from Western Victoria (see antea Fig. 16 and Fig. 135). This occurs in ironstone, on the surface of which are also impressions of Gum {Eucalyptus) and Native Honey- suckle (Banksia) leaves, of species closely related to those now growing in the same locality. This iron- stone is probably of Janjukian age, and may there- fore be coincident with the New Zealand occurrence of the Palaeeudyptes in the Oamaru Series. Pliocene Moa, New Zealand.— In the Wanganui System (Pliocene) the Putiki Beds have yielded bones of a small Moa (Dinornis), probably the oldest example of the group of great flightless birds which later predominated in New Zea- land. J.;. fig. 135— Impression of Bird's Feather in Ironstone. Wannon River, Victoria, (Enlarged).. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Chapman, Frank M. (Frank Michler), 1864-1945. Melbourne, London [etc. ] G. Robertson & Company Propy. ltd.
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