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THE POIKIL1TIC PERIOD. 



CHAP. 



Several of these fossils occur at Pendock and other localities 

 where the pale tinted Keiiper sandstones expand near the Malvern 

 Hills. With these lies Pullastra areiiicola. 



Of the plants here mentioned as found in Keiiper sandstone 

 little is to be remarked, but they are interesting as being among 

 the rarest of British fossils, a distinction which further research 

 in the Midland counties is likely to remove. 



Estheria minuta, which accompanies them, occurs in the E/hsetic 

 beds above. 



The fishes present a remarkable concurrence of an old genus, 

 Palaeoniscus, with the ordinary Cestraciont teeth of the new red 

 period. 



The reptiles, mostly referred to Labyrinthodonts, have not as 

 yet furnished complete means of determination, so that the species, 

 as suggested by Owen, must be regarded as in some degree pro- 

 visional. It seems doubtful whether the original Mastodontosaurus 

 Jageri is to be counted among them (the specimens are supposed 

 to be lost), but it is represented by an animal quite as gigantic, 

 the head being conjectured to be two feet in length. 



Diagram XXV. i. Cranium of Dasyceps Bucklandi (Lloyd), from the Permian 

 sandstone of Kenilworth. 2. Tooth of Dasyceps Bucklandi. 3. Cranium of 

 Labyrinthodon Jageri, from the Wirtemburg fossil. The species is supposed to be 

 one of those found in the Bunter sandstone of Guy's Cliff, near Warwick. 4. Ilium 

 of Labyrinthodon pachygnathus (Owen), from Cubbington, in Bunter sandstone. 

 5. Tooth of the same. 6. Tooth of Palaeosaurus platyodon (Riley), from Redland, 

 near Bristol. 



Cladyodon Lloydii, known only by its tooth, which is com- 

 pressed, seems to be of Dinosaurian affinity. 



Perhaps the most remarkable among the reptiles is Hypero- 

 dapedon Gordoni, originally determined by Professor Huxley, from 

 specimens found in the red sandstones near Elgin. 



