Gosford Fossil Fish

"Mr. Joseph Thompson,
solicitor, of Pitt-street, on being shown some fossil
fishes found in the railway cutting near Gosford by his  
clerk, Mr. A. Lambert, advised him to submit them to
me. I at once recognised amongst them the remains
of another of those remarkable "frog lizards." Pro-
fessor Stephens kindly undertook to examine the fossil,
and in his elaborate paper which he recently read be-
fore the Linnean Society he has described it under the new
generic name of Platyceps. I sent Mr. Cullen, the
collector, to explore the excavations at Gosford, and he
succeeded in obtaining not only more labyrinthoden
remains, but a very magnificent collection numbering
over 400 specimens of fossil fishes, ganoids and
placoids, several of which are of remarkable forma-
tion, and appear to be new to science. Splendid im-
pressions both of fishes and labvrinthodon are to be
seen in the same piece of rock, and it is interesting to
find thus associated with the remains of these ancient
types of fishes those of the amphibian classes, the next
higher in the scale of the animal kingdom. The
valuable collection is now in the Museum. Mr. Blunt,
the railway contractor, also obtained from the same
quarry at Gosford a large slab of stone in which there
were no less than 15 fish impressions. These fine
specimens Mr. Blunt has lent to the department."

"It is proposed to erect forty-five (45) residential units on a former
quarry site...

The site is a former sandstone quarry bounded by Wilhelmina, George,
Batley and Pacific Highway. A dwelling house exists on the south-west corner
of the site. The balance of the site is a former sandstone quarry, with
extensive excavations on the northern side near Wilhelmina Street...

The site is a former quarry with high steep walls, particularly at
the northern end."