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att an t\it Jfis^ gtmams ixom tijt 

 Itr geb Sanbstom of 1|0rlisljtatr. 



By E. J. L. GARDINER. 



IN the " Proceedings of tlie Bristol Naturalists' Society " 

 (Vol. II., No. 8, p. 79), some account is given of the 

 occurrence of fish remains near the southern end of Wood- 

 hill Bay, near Portishead. The remains, which were very 

 fragmentary, and were identified as scales of Holoptychius 

 and Coccosteus, occurred in a bed three feet thick, coarsely 

 conglomeritic at the top, but passing into fine sandstone 

 lower down. This bed, I am told, was low down on the 

 shore line. 



I have recently been able to obtain from the same locality, 

 but for the most part from a bed somewhat higher up in the 

 series, further indications of the fish fauna of this period, 

 of which I propose to give a very brief account in the 

 following note. 



The bed which contains the fish remains is a pale red 

 calcareous sandstone with occasional pebbles in it. The 

 weathered surface is crumbly and friable from the removal 

 of the calcareous matter. All my specimens were obtained 



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