VIII. 



FOSSILS OF THE NEW RED SERIES. 



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With this group of rocks we take leave of the peroxidated sedi- 

 ments. Above the gypseous marls there are in our district no more 

 of the richly red sandstones or marls, and we lose the peculiar 

 reptiles of that age ; but, in return, we gain a new series of life, 

 far more varied and not less interesting, brought into this part 

 of the ancient sea with sediments of another order, derived from 

 some other region. No convulsion here, no mark of any the least 

 disturbance, except of sea-level, accompanies the great change. It 

 is not a very limited change, for it affects all the north of Europe ; 

 Britain, France, and Germany equally bear witness to the extent 

 and importance of the physical agencies which accompanied the 

 transition from the Poikilitic period to the epoch of the Lias. 



OEGANIC REMAINS IN THE NEW RED STEATA OF THE 

 WARWICKSHIRE DISTRICT. 



For the above list I am indebted chiefly to the Rev. P. B. Brodie. 

 The specimens are mostly in the Warwick Museum. 



