x. 



SECTION OF LOWER LIAS. 



Ill 



found in each. Insects and other fossils are more frequent at 

 Binton b . 



1. Light-coloured limestone 



2. Light-coloured clay . 



; 3. Argillaceous limestone 



4. Light-coloured clay . 



5. Argillaceous limestone 



6. Clay 



7. Greyish limestone . 



ft. in. 



o 6 



2 6 

 



8. Clay ..... o 



9. Greyish limestone, thin and irre- 



gular when covered by the pre- 

 ceding . . o i to o 



22. Stony shale 



23. Hard limestone 



24. Hard clay . 



25. Limestone . 





 3^ 



i 

 6 



3 



3^ 



26. Clay. Thin plates of stone lie 



in this clay . . . .oil 



27. Limestone, sometimes underlaid 



by clay . . . . o o 



'Top rock* or 'whites.' 



Top liveries.' Ichthyosaurus on the 

 upper surface ; Insects. 



Top liveries' (lower). Insects ; Am- 

 monites Johnstoni. 



Extra rock.' 'Thick paving bed.' 

 No fossils. 



'Quarters.' 

 'Ribs.' Insects. 



'Paving-stone.' A few Insects, and 

 Pholidophorus Stricklandi. 



' Bottom rock.' More insects here than 

 in all the other beds collectively. 



Tetragonolepis angulifer. 

 (In Warwick Museum.) 



' Ruskin.' No fossils. 



' Grizzle bed.' Saurian bones ; fishes, 

 teeth and scales ; Ammonites plan- 

 orbis ; Lima punctata ; Cardium ; 

 Ostrea liassica; spines of Cidaris 

 and other Echinidae abundant. 



'Blue stone' or 'Blocks.' Myacites 

 and Elytra of Coleoptera. 



' Gravestone rock.' Ichthyosaurus, 

 and Otopteris acuminata. 



b The section was published by Dr. Wright in Pal. Sffc. Memoirs, 1863. 



