THE AiNNALS 



AND 



MAGAZINE OF NATURAL HISTORY. 



[p:ighth series.] 



No. U. AUGUST 19 LI. 



XX. — On some Fossil Mollusca d;c. from Southei'ti JSigeria 

 collected by Mr. John Parkinson, M.A. By E. JBuLLEN 

 Newton, F.G.S. With an Appendix, by A. Smith 

 Woodward, LL.D. &c. 



(Published by peri)i)s.sioii of tbe Trustees of the British JJuseuin.) 

 [T'late VI.] 



(A) Cainozoic Marine Mollusca and Fish-remains from the Bitumen- 



bearing Deposits of Southern Nigeria. 



(B) A Cretaceous Pelecypod from Southern Nigeria. 



(C) An Orbitoidal Limestone from Southern Nigeria. 



(A) Cainozoic Marine Mollusca and Fish-remains from the 

 JBitumen-hcaring Dt posits of Soutliern Nigeria. (PI. VI, 

 iigs. 1-16.) 



About two years ago JVIr. John Parkinson, ]\I.A., during 

 certain survey work in Soutliern Nigeria under tbe auspices 

 of the British Colonial Petroleum Company, Limited *, 

 collected some remains of marine Mollusca, accompanied by 

 a Teleostean fish-scale and a Selachian tooth [Lamna] from a 

 sandy deposit heavily impregnated with oil which he found 

 in the province of Lagos (G° 38' 30" N. lat., and 4° 37' 00" 

 E. long.), about 33 miles from the sea "as the crow flies. ^■' 



* The specimens described in this paper have been generously presented 

 to the Geological Depfirtment of the British Museum (Natimtl History) 

 by this Company. 



Ann. tfc Mag. N. Hist. Ser. 8. Vol viil. 13 



