In the Queensland fauna, the Gympie series contains, amongst other Brachiopods Productus cora, Leptaena rhomboidalis var., analoga, Spirifer vespertilio and S. strzeleckii.
Other Carbopermian Brachiopod genera found in Australian faunas are Cleiothyris, Dielasma, Hypothyris, Reticularia, Seminula, Cyrtina, and Syringothyris.
Triassic Brachiopods.—
The Kaihiku Series of New Zealand (Hokonui Hills and Nelson) are probably referable to the Trias. The supposed basal beds contain plants such as Taeniopteris, Cladophlebis, Palissya and Baiera. Above these are marine beds containing Brachiopods belonging to Spiriferina, Rhynchonella, Dielasma and Athyris. The succession of these beds presents some palaeontological anomalies still to be explained, for the flora has a decided leaning towards a Jurassic facies.
Next in order of succession the Wairoa Series, in the Hokonui Hills and Nelson, New Zealand, contains Dielasma and Athyris wreyi.
The succeeding series in New Zealand, the Otapiri, or Upper Triassic contains the Brachiopod genera Athyris[3] and Spiriferina, found at Well’s Creek, Nelson.
[3] Referred by Hector to a new sub-genus Clavigera, which name, however, is preoccupied.
Jurassic Brachiopods.—
