124 THE LIASSIC PERIODS. CHAP. 



For the discovery of these curious fossils geology is indebted 

 mainly to the Rev. P. B. Brodie, whose excellent work on Fossil 

 Insects was issued in 1845. The above list is taken from his 

 volume principally. The names are his except in one or two 

 cases. Professor Westwood examined the whole series. On the 

 whole, there is a large proportion of Neuropterous insects with 

 wings well preserved, and several families of Coleoptera, mostly 

 terrestrial. We may believe the whole group to belong to a tem- 

 perate climate, and to have been blown or drifted into shallow sea 

 water from the palaeozoic regions, which have been already proved 

 to have been elevated on the west. The process began in the 

 Rhsetic period, for some allied forms occur in the landscape stone 

 of Aust, and we shall find it to have been continued into the oolitic 

 ages. 



FOSSILS OF THE LIASSIC PERIOD. 



POLYZOA. 



Specimens have been observed on shells on Gryphaea at Fenny-Compton. 

 BRACHTOPODA. 



Discina Townsendi. Forbes. L. Vale of Gloucester. 



sp. L. Leckhampton. 



Lingula Beanii. Phil. L. Stonehouse (0. G. Survey). M. Stinchcombe, Mickleton. 

 Rhynchonellaacuta. Sow. L. Fenny-Compton. M. Alderton, Dumbleton, Bredon. 

 bidens. Phil. M. Alderton, Dumbleton, Bredon. 

 furcillata. L. Near Stow. 

 Moorei. Dav. L. Aston, near Tewkesbury. 

 oxynota. Geol. Surv. L. Aston, near Tewkesbury. 

 ,, rimosa. Von Buck. L. Stonehouse, Fenny-Compton. 

 subconcinna. Dav. M. Near Kineton. 



tetraedra. Sow. M. Bredon, Fawler, Aynhoe, Banbury, &c. 

 variabilis. Schlot. L. Stonehouse, Harbury. M. Dumbleton, Aider- 

 ton, Mickleton. 

 Spirifera Munsteri. Dav. L. Stonehouse. 



rostrata. Sow. L. Stonehouse, Fenny-Compton. M. Gretton, Dumbleton. 

 Walcotti. Sow. L. Aston, Fenny-Compton. 



Terebratula cornuta. Sow. M. Chipping-Campden, Dumbleton, Alderton. 

 cynocephala. Rich. S. Leckhampton. 



Edwardsii. Dav. M. Gretton. 



indentata. Sow. M. Banbury, Deddington. 



numismalis. Lam. L. Fenny-Compton. U. Cheltenham. 



perforata. L. Fenny-Compton. 



punctata. Sow. L. Stonehouse. M. Deddington, Fawler, Frocester, 



&c. 



,, resupinata. Sow. M. Bredon, Deddington, Byfield, Mickleton. 



subdecorata. Dav. S. Leckhampton. * 



subpunctata. Dav. S. Frocester, Nailsworth. 



