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Etheridge in a “Geographical Table Exhibiting the 
Distribution of the Rhztic Species in the County of 
Gloucester,” recorded fourteen species from Wainlode.* 
Prof. J. Phillips,» Mr H. B. Woodward? and Prof. 
Rupert Jones,* transcribe Strickland’s record, with the 
addition of a few paleontological records in the case of 
the first and last authors. 
The section has also been incidentally referred to by 
several authors when treating of the distribution of the 
Rheetic beds. 
From a paleontological standpoint, the section so 
frequently quoted (z.¢., Strickland’s record), is inadequate 
for purposes of correlation; and, moreover, little attention 
appears to have been bestowed upon the deposit interven- 
ing between beds 15 and 7. It is necessary to remember, 
however, that the section referred to was noted at a time 
when geologists had just become cognisant of the fact 
that there was something more of interest than “a few 
feet of clay”> separating the Upper Keuper Marls from 
the Lower Lias. 
6.—Detailed Description of the Section. (Table 1.) 
The section to be described runs east by south and 
west by north. The strata dip to the S.S.W., at angles 
from 2° to 9°. The Upper Keuper Marls, which are very 
slightly calcareous in places, constitute the base of the 
t Proc. Cotteswold Club, Vol. iii. (1865), p. 
2 “Geology of Oxford and the Valley of ae aaa” (1871), p. 104. Wainlode 
Cliff was visited by the Geologists’ Association in July, 1874; vzde Proceedings (1875), 
Reaiyay, 173. 
- 3 te Geol. Surv. “Jurassic Rocks of Britain,” Vol. iii. (1893), “ The Lias of 
England and Wales,” p. 146. 
4 Quart. Journ. Geol. Soc., Vol. 1. (1894), p. 157- 
5 ‘“ Geology of Cheltenham ” (1844), p. 47. 
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