- Cicada Lowei - CICADA
- Meiolania - EXTINCT ARMOURED TURTLE
- Dinornis - MOA
- Sthenurus minor - GIANT KANGAROO
- Zaglossus robusta - LONG-BEAKED ECHIDNA
Locations
NEWS ITEMS
1866 - SCIENTIFIC MEMORANDA
Mr Plunkett, of Talbragar, near Mudgee, has found on several occasions some interesting fossils, which the Rev W B Clarke recognises as the impressions of an extinct species of fern (Glossopteris Brownii) similar in all probability to that which Sir Thomas Mitchell and others have found in different parts of Ausralia. Mr Plunkett also noticed a fragment of a bone which had been dug up at thirty feet below the surface of the ground, but unfortunately it is too imperfect to be determined. The Rev W B Clarke, however, supposes it to be the bone of a kangaroo. In addition to these specimens Mr Plunkett has collected a small milky plant (Euphorbia chamoesyce), the juice of which the blacks sometimes employ to attach pieces of feather to bees for the purpose of discovering their nests.
1876 - [FOSSIL PLANTS]
Mr. C. S. Wilkinson, the Government Geologist, in his survey of the Gulgong district, reports the existence of gold in payable quantities in a conglomerate bed of the carboniferous formation, and infers this to be the most ancient auriferous alluvial deposit in the world. He also discovered nine entirely now species of fossil plants, representing no fewer than seven genera new to science.
