Fig. 54—Section through pellet of Girvanella conferta, Chapm.
× 35. From the Silurian (Yeringian) Limestone of Tyers
River, Gippsland, Victoria.
(Nat. Mus. Coll.)
Haliserites is a primitive plant of the type of the club-mosses so common in the rocks of the Carboniferous period. This genus is found in some abundance in the Yeringian stage of the Silurian in Gippsland ([Fig. 55]).
Fig. 55—PALAEOZOIC PLANTS.
(Approximate dimensions in fractions).
A—Bythotrephis tenuis, J. Hall. Silurian. Victoria.
B—Haliserites Dechenianus, Göppert. Silurian. Victoria.
C—Cordaites australis, McCoy. Upper Devonian. Victoria.
D—Sphenopteris iguanensis, McCoy. Upper Devonian. Victoria.
E—Glossopteris Browniana, Brongniart. Carbopermian. N.S.W.
| Fig. 56.—Restoration of Lepidodendron elegans. (After Grand’Eury.) |
