On Tertiary Chilostomatous Bryozoa from New Zealand

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In the following paper the Chilostomata from three collections are described, two being kindly lent by Miss Jelly, to whom they had been sent by a correspondent living in the neighbourhood of Napier. They are from Petane and Waipukurau, both representing a well-known horizon, and also some from Waikato and Trig's Station, Tanner's Run, besides others designated as from the neighbourhood of Napier. For the third collection, which is only small, I am indebted to the kindness of Professor Hutton, who collected the material from the base of the Shakespeare Cliff, Wanganui. Petane, Waipukurau, and Wanganui are known localities in what is called the Wanganui system, which Tenison-Woods in his “Corals and Bryozoa of the Neozoic Period in New Zealand” (Colon. Mus. and Geol. Survey Dept. 1880), calls “Upper Miocene,” but which Professor Hutton more recently (Quart. Journ. Geol. Soc. vol. xli. 1885, p. 194) calls “Newer Pliocene.” The only papers on New-Zealand fossil Bryozoa with which I am acquainted are those by Tenison-Woods, just mentioned, and one by Stoliczka, “On the Bryozoa from the Marine Beds of the Waitemataschichten of Orakei Bay.” The Waitemata beds belong to the Pareora system, and are considered by both Woods and Hutton to be Miocene. Of some few the state of preservation is very satisfactory, while with most this is by no means the case ; yet it is often surprising to find how in badly preserved specimens the characters can be distinctly made out by a detailed examination of cell after cell.

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