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the other name sometimes applied to the cliff, Golden 
Cliff. The Bone-bed (Plate V.) occurs in one or more 
layers, but collectively they do not exceed 3 inches. Mr 
Etheridge has given a detailed description of this bed in 
Vol. III. of the Proceedings of the Club. Ceratodus is 
mentioned by Dr Wright from the Bone-bed,* and Mr R. 
Gibbs’ is stated to have procured a specimen—possibly it 
is on his authority that Dr Wright mentioned it. I have 
not detected any sign of them. The absence of Ceratodont 
remains here (except for this doubtful record), and their 
abundance at so near a locality as Aust Cliff, affords an 
interesting problem. 
As noticed by Dr Wright fossils are rare in the deposit 
intervening between the Bone-bed and the /ecten-bed 
(7.) Particulars of these strata will be found in my 
section. Bed 12 is not very fossiliferous, but Avzcula 
contorta and Schizodus Ewald: occur, the tests of the 
latter being replaced by iron pyrites. 
From 12-16 inches below bed 7 is a series of highly 
fossiliferous sandstone layers with clay partings. There is 
little doubt that it is the equivalent of the fossiliferous 
horizon at Wainlode Cliff and Coomb Hill. The fossils 
at those localities occurred in the thinly laminated shales, 
but here that lithic character occurs at an inferior level. 
It will be noticed that the thickness I have assigned to 
beds 14-8 inclusive, closely approximates with that noted 
by Dr Wright. 
The equivalent of the bed distinguished as 7 at 
Wainlode Cliff and Coomb Hill succeeds and presents 
similar lithic and faunal characters—Pecten valonzensis 
being the most abundant lamellibranch. Dr Wright 
recognises this horizon as the Pecten-bed, but some 
authors appear to have considered as such a succeeding 
x Quart. Journ. Geol. Soc., Vol. xvi. (1860); p 
2 “ Geology of the Country around Cheltenham beaks p- 16. 
