DITHYROCARIS SCOULERI. 



Section between Congleton Edge and Astburt Lime-works. 



155 



N.W. 



Excepting the bei1s la iit the south-east end this section is taken from p. 72, ' Memoir Geol. Survey; Country 

 round Stockport, Macclesfield, Congleton, and Leek.' 



A, B, c. The approximate position of the quarry ahove referred to. 



1 a. First Grit ; clay, grit, shale, and sandstone, 55' ; shale, 57' ; shale with a coal-seam, 102' (see 

 the ' Mem. Geol. Survey' here alluded to, p. 70). 



1. Third Grit, 100'. 



2. Shales (?), 500'. 



3. Thin-bedded hard s;uidstones and shiile, 1400'. 



4. Sandstone, hard, reddish-yellow (?). 



5. Dark, sandy shale, 20'. 



6. Impure cannel coal, 1'. 



7. Shales, with thin earthy limestones, 120'. 



8. Limestone, with thin shaly partings. 



X Fault. X. Red Rock fault. 1. Limekiln Farm. 



9. Lower Keuper Sandstone. 



6. DiTHTEOCARis ScouLERi, Jlf'Co//, 1844. Plate XXI, figs. 7 a, h (?), 10 (?) ; 



Plate XXV, figs. 6 a—c, and fig. 7 (?). 



DiTHTEOCAEis ScoULEEi, M'Coy, 1844. Synops. Char. Carb. Foss. Ireland, p. 163, 



pi. xxiii, fig. 2 ; and 1862, ibid., edit. 2, p. 224. 



— — Morris, 1854. Catal. Brit. Foss., edit. 2, p. 107. 



— — Griffith, 1862. Journ. Geol. Soc. Dublin, vol. ix, p. 48. 



— _ Salter and Woodward, 1865. Chart Foss. Crust., p. 17, 



fig. 10. 



— H. Woodward, 1865. Intellect. Observer, vol. viii, 



pp. 323, 324, pi. o, fig. 9; 1872, 

 Popul. Sc. Eev., vol. xi, pp. .391 and 

 396, pi. xc, fig. 10. 

 _ _ Bigshy, 1878. Thesaur. Dev.-Carb., p. 249. 



p _ TESTUDINEUS [ea], E. EtJieridge, jun., 1879. Quart. Journ. Geol. 



Soc, vol. XXXV, p. 465, pi. xxiii, fig. 1. 

 ScouLEBF, Nieliolson, 1879. Palaeontology, edit. 2, vol. i, p. 349, 



fig. 204. 

 — — EtJieridge, 1888. Foss. Brit., vol. i, Pala;oz., p. 238. 



