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SOME INFERIOR-OOLITE BRACHIOPODA 53 



RHYNCHONELLA WITCHELLI/ sp. nov. PL VII., figs. 



la and b. 

 T.l. Selsley Hill, near Stroud. 

 Hoy. Oolite Marl, i Bradfordensis. 

 Colin. C. Upton. 



nesniMiou -Shell broader than long, coarsely plicated with three or 

 four plants ui the mesial fold and usually four on each side. Beak promment. 

 acute and slightly incurved. * 



Remarks.-Rhvnchonella witchelli is a very distinctive 

 form and has long'been known to collectors who have worked 

 on Selslev Hill, where it is common in the hard beds which 

 participate in the formation of the deposit which i^ equivalent 

 to the Oolite Marl-the "Upper Freestone ^^^ WitchelL 

 Specimens have also been collected from the Oohte Marl of 

 Peter's Barn (near the Broadway Monument m the North 

 Cotteswolds) ; from a marly layer exposed in a freestone 

 quarry close to the road at Longford's Mill, near Nails worth, 

 Gloucestershire- Stroud Hill; and the Frith Quarry, near 

 Pains wick. 



One of us (C.U.) has collected several specimens of a 

 rhynchonelhd, somewhat larger, but otherwise scarcely sepa- 

 rable from Rhyn. witchelli, from the Coral-Bed on top of the 

 Pea-Grit at the Frith Quarry. 



TEREBRATULA MICROSTOMA,^ sp. nov. PI. VII., figs, 

 15a and h. 

 T.l. Cowley-Wood Quarry, near Cheltenham. 

 Hoy. Clypeus- Grit (top), i Schloenbachi. 

 Colin. L. Richardson. 



small foramen. . 



Remayks.-The exceptionally small foramen is the 

 principal characteristic of this species. Two specimens have 

 been obtained, both from the top of the ClypeusrGnt of the 



3s" Rhvn. Witchelli, Rich." 



3. Creek : mikros, small ; stoiiia, an opening. 



