162 REPORT—1905 
Notes on Footprints from the Trias in the Museum of the Warwickshire 
Natural History and Archeological Society at Warwick. By H. C. 
BEASLEY. 
The Warwick Museum contains about fifty slabs of sandstone of 
various sizes, showing either casts or impressions of footprints. About 
fifteen of them are from the Upper Keuper sandstone of Shrewley, War- 
wickshire. 
From the Lower Keuper there are nine, mostly large ones, from 
Lymm, Cheshire, two or three from Grinshill, Salop, and one large one 
and several smaller ones from South Staffordshire, one large one from 
Coten-end, Warwick, and several from both Upper and Lower Keuper in 
other localities in the Midlands. Besides these there are others which 
have lost their labels, but of which it is possible to guess the locality. 
From this it will be seen that the collection gives an opportunity for 
comparing the indications of the fauna in a variety of localities and of 
different herizons. 
The portion of the collection of most interest is that obtained from the 
Upper Keuper sandstones of Shrewley. The quarry by the side of the 
canal is, unfortunately, not now worked, and is covered with a dense growth 
of vegetation, but whilst it was open it appears to have been closely 
watched by the Rev. P. B. Brodie, and other Warwick geologists, who 
secured a good number, not only of footprints, but of fossil remains. 
The beds of sandstone are intercalated in the Keuper marls, and were 
described in 1837 by Murchison and Strickland, and some fossils and a 
large slab of footprints figured.! 
The sandstones consist of thin beds, in all 8 or 10 feet, underlain by tea- 
green marl. Besides footprints, fish and other organic remains have been 
found in the sandstones, and stheria minuta is common both to the 
sandstones and the marls. A bed, apparently immediately below the 
sandstones, has yielded several species of mollusca, recorded in the reports 
of the specimens in the British Museum, Natural History, and the 
Geological Survey Museum, in this Committee’s report of last year, by 
Dr. A. 8. Woodward, F.R.S., and Mr. E. T. Newton, F.R.S. 
The slab which is figured with the paper by Murchison and Strick- 
land, referred to above, is in the Warwick collection, and the prints, in 
relief, are still quite recognisable. They are described in Part ii. of this 
report (p. 278, 1904) as D 4. The manus has the digits free, with no trace 
of webbing, and they look slender and weak compared with those of the 
larger pes, which, as before described, is distinctly webbed.- There is a 
distinct track of a tail between the two rows of the footprints. The large 
1 Trans. Geol. Soc., 2nd series, vol. v. p. 339, and Plate XXVIII. ‘On the Upper 
Formation of the New Red Sandstone System in Gloucester, Worcestershire, 
and Warwickshire, showing that the Red, or Saliferous Marls, including a peculiar 
Zone of Sandstone, represent the Keuper or ‘Marnes irisées” with Some 
Account of the Underlying Sandstone of Ombersley, Bromsgrove, and Warwick, 
Proving that it is the Bunter Sandstein, or Grés Bigarré of Foreign Geologists,’ by 
R. I. Murchison, V.P.G.8., and H. 8. Strickland, F.G.S., read June 14, 1837. 
The section is also described in Quart. Jowr. Geol. Soc., vol. xii. p. 374. ‘On the 
Upper Keuper Sandstone (included in the New Red Marl) of Warwickshire,’ by 
the Rey. P. B. Brodie, M.A., F.G.8., read June 4, 1856; also Quart. Jour. Geol. ks kd 
vol, xiii. p. 574, and vol, xiv. p- 165, by the same. 
