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MAGAZINE OF XATURAL HISTORY 



[KIGUTIl SERIES.] 

 No. U. AUGUST 19 LI. 



XX. — On some Fossil Mollusca djc. from Southern Sigeria 

 Collected hy Mr. John Parkinson, aM.A. By E. BuLLEN 

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

 AVOODWAHD, LL.D. &c. 



{ Publi.'slied by permission of tlie Trustees of the British Museum.) 

 [I'late VI.] 



(A) Cainozoic Marine MoUuaca and Fish-remains from tiie liitumeu- 



bearing Deposits of Southern Nigeria. 



(B) A Cretaceous Pelecypod from Southern Nigeria. 



(C) An Orbitoidal Limestone from Southern Nigeria. 



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

 Bitumen-htaring Di posits of Southern Nigeria. (PI. VI. 

 figs. 1-16.) 



About two years ago Mr. John Paikinson, M.A., during- 

 certain survey work in Soutliern ISIigeria under the auspices 

 of the British Colonial Petroleum Company, Limited *, 

 collected some remains of marine Mollusca, accompanied by 

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

 sandy deposit heavily impref^nated with oil which he found 

 in the province of Lagos (0° 38' 30" N. lat., and 4° 37' 00'' 

 E. long.), about 33 miles from the sea "as the crow ^las." 



* The specimens described in this paper have been generously presented 

 to the Geological Department of the British Museum (Natural History) 

 by this Company. 



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