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This neighbourhood appears to he prolific in grand examples of the Carboniferous 

 flora, for another fine specimen of Stigmaria is to be observed in the same quarry, 

 and in the railway cutting close by a good but much smaller specimen of 

 SigiUaria with roots attached was obtained.' 



8. On the Discovery of Fossil Fish in the New Bed Sandstone (Tipper 

 Keuper) in Warwickshire. By the Rev. P. B. Beodie, M.A., F.G.8. 



The author observed that, considering the thickness and extent of the New Red 

 Sandstone in Great Britain, the paucity and rarity of fossils were remarkable, 

 especially when compared with the abundant fauna and flora of the Trias in 

 Europe. In a field so comparatively barren any addition, therefore, to either is 

 interesting to the palaeontologist. JNlauy years ago the author discovered a ganoid 

 fis]i — thelast apparently of the genus Palceoniscus superstes — figured and described by 

 the late Sir Philip Egerton (' Journ. Geol. Soc' xiv. p. 164) in the Upper Keuper at 

 Rowington (six miles north-west of Warwick) ; and he now records another discovery 

 of several small fish near there, shortly to be figured and described by Mr. E. T. 

 Newton, and named by him Semionotus Brodiei, which is the iirst time this genus 

 has been recorded from the British Trias. The remains of small Cestracionts are 

 not unfrequent in one particular band of sandstone in AVarwicksbire and Wor- 

 cestershire, with occasional footprints in the former county of Labyrinthodon. 

 Ganoid fish are so rare that these above named are, as far as the author is aware, 

 the only ones known, with one exception, which cannot be secured, in the Upper 

 Keuper ; the curious Dipteronotus having been found in the Lower Keuper (water- 

 stones) at Bromsgrove, in Worcestershire, and two new species discovered by Mr. 

 Wilson in the Lower Keuper, near Nottingham. The author gave a section of the 

 quarry containing the fossils above referred to, and stated that he considered that 

 the New Red Sandstone in Warwickshire, as the Rev. J. Mello has adopted in 

 Cheshire, might fairly and advantageously be divided into Upper and Lower 

 Keuper, the two series of sandstones being difierent lithologically, and being 

 separated by a considerable thickness of red marl, the lower sandstones being 

 especially characterised by remains of Labyrinthodon and other peculiar reptiles, a 

 fine and unique collection being preserved in the Warwick Museum, 



9. On the Bange, Extent, and Fossils of the Bhcetic Formation in 

 WarwicJcshire. By the Rev. P. B. Brodie, M.A., F.G.8. 



The author in this paper first gives an account of the range, thickness, and 

 fossils of the upper portion of the Rhaetic formation — viz. the ' white Lias,' sup- 

 posing that it really belongs to this, but to which it is now generally assigned, 

 showing that it is very rarely seen in conjunction with the underlying shales, and 

 that where they occur in one or two important sections the white Lias is absent. 

 A list of the fossils is given, which are few and iU-preserved, Ostrea intusstriata 

 and a species of Avicula (Monotis) being the most characteristic. A full account 

 is given of the succeeding grey and black Rhaetic shales, with occasional interca- 

 lated shelly limestone and sandstone ; and though, as a rule, good sections are rare, 

 there were certain railway cuttings which laid open several very interesting and 

 instructive ones, and enabled the author to obtain a series of characteristic fossils, 

 including the Radiate, by no means common and local, the Ophiolepis Damesii, It 

 was stated that these occupied a considerable area in the southern division of the 

 county, appearing again on the north-east, near Rugby, and as a rule succeeded by 

 the basement beds (insect and saurian beds) of the Lower Lias, which were in places 

 seen in conjunction with these shales. It was further observed that they probably 

 underlie the Lias in its coirrse through the county; and the author concluded by 

 showing the general range of the Rhaetics from the coast of Devon to the coast of 

 Yorkshire; which, although not comparable either in thickness or abundance and 



' See post, p. 645, for remarks on this tree by Prof. "W. C. Williamson ; also Geol. 

 Mag. Sept. 1886, pp. 406-8. 



