VOL. XVII. (I) INFERIOR OOLITE-SOUTH COTTESWOLDS 



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Frocester-Hiix Section.— S. S. Bnckman 



XXVI. 



Opaliniforme- 1. 

 Bed 

 (15 0/ Haresfield) 

 XXVII. Aalensis-'Qed. 2 

 (16 0/ Haresfield) 



1893.1 



Thickness in feet inches 



ironshot 



Moorei-'BeA* 3 

 (17 & 180/ Haresfield) 



Hard, pinkish, very little 

 stone. "Bottom-Bed of Bugstone 

 or Ragstone " of quarrymen. . 

 Soft ironshot yellowi.sh mudstone, 

 attached to the base of bed i with a 

 very uneven junction ; Rhynchonella 

 cynocephala, auctt., small and rare, 

 Canavarina folleata, S.B. (xxx.. I, 2), 

 ? Cotteswoldia limatula, S. B. (xxx., 

 5-7), C. crinita S.B. (xxxi., 3, 4). C. 

 superba. S. B. (xxx., i, 2), C. costu- 

 lata (Ziet.) (fig. spec, xxxiii., 3. 4). 

 Pleydellia fluens, S.B. (xxxi., 1,2), 

 P. aalensis (Ziet.) (fig. spec, xxx., 

 3-6), etc. 

 Soft yellowish ironshot mudstone, 

 with softer marly streaks. Band of 

 Rhyn. cynocephala, auctt. 7 inches 

 from the top {Rhyyu ? cynica, S.B). 

 and in the bottom 2 inches Rhyn. 

 ? cynoprosopa, S.B., Dumortieria snb- 

 fasciata, S.B. (xxx., 18) or lower, 

 D. mtmda, S.B. (xliv., 10-12— or 

 lower), D. Moorei (Lycett) . . 

 Yellow, very ironshot mudstone ; 

 Rhyn. cvnoprosopa, S. B. at top, 

 Lytoceras cf. Leckenhyi : (Lye) 

 Yellowish, often blackish ironshot 

 mudstone ; Cotteswoldia subcandida, 

 S. B. (xxx., 7, 8) or higher. Lyto- 

 cerasLeckenbyi [l^yceti), Lytoceras sp. 

 Verv black-stained ironshot mud- 

 stone ; Chartronia binodata, S. B. 

 (Suppl. i.. 11-15) evidently belongs 

 here and was wrongly attributed to 

 the Dumortieria-Zone . . ■■ 09 



Yellow ironshot mudstone, dark in 

 places [Psettdogrammoceras thrasu, 

 S. B., P. Bingmanni {Benckm.), P. 

 cf. pedicum, S.B. . . • ■ • • 06 



Soft marl, with blocks of hard sand- 

 rock, redeposited . . .... 01 



Lumps of sandrock in irony coaHngs, 

 cemented together by marly stone, 

 which contains Grammoceras striatu- 

 lum (Sow.), etc. 

 * The following type-specimens came from Frocester, and irom this 

 horizon :— Dumortieria Moorei (Lye), Lytoceras Leckenbyi (Lye.), 

 Protocardia Hulli (Wr.), Opis carinata. Wr. Lima ornata. \^t.. 

 Cucullaa ferruginea. Wr., Astarte rugtdosa. Lye. and Trtgoma 

 Ramsayi, Wr. 



Returning to. the Stroud Road, on the east side of the 

 road above the main Frocester-Hill Quarry, is a smaller one, 



I "Many of the ammonites of beds 2 and 3 were obtained from ^}'^ .^'^^^ZUfc^^tlp^^nv- 

 Section (where onlv the AaUnsis- and .\/oor«-Beds are exposed), and are mcluded here for the pur- 

 poses of reference (see Monograph ' Inf. Ool. Amm.'). S. S. B. (»n /»«•). 



Dispansum-'Bed 6. 



Strttckmanni-Bed 



[&■ Pedicnm- 

 Bed] 



Striatulum- 

 Bed 



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