Observations regarding the recent discovery by G. Thureau, F.G.S., of a fossil reptile in the Mersey coal measures at Railton

Mr. Gr. Thureau, formerly Oovernment Geologist of Tasmania, has kindly submitted a carefully prepared cast of the remains of a fossil reptile discovered by him in the spoil-heap from a (then) new main shaft sunk by a Sydney company near Railton, in the Mersey Coal Measures, and, therefore, of Upper Permo-Carboniferous age.
Opinion has it that it is within the group of the Labyrinthodontia, embraced within the Sub-order, resemble Lizards in outward appearance and have the centra of the vertebras more or less elongated, and long curved ribs.
One genus of this order, Lininerpeton, of the Permian of Bohemia, possesses characteristics of the vertebrae of the central and caudal parts, which come very close to our Tasmanian representation from the Permo-Carboniferous Coal Measure of Railton, Tasmania.
For the sake of reference, and as a compliment to Mr. Thureau, I propose in the meantime to refer always to this, the oldest known remains of a vertebrate in Tasmanian rocks, as "Thureau s Microsaiirian".