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two footprints in relief ; one is very imperfect, the other the print of such 
a foot as, when rather clogged with mud, might have made the oval marks 
on the slab last described. It shows three very distinct claws and no 
clear division between the digits, which must have been short. The 
breadth of the print is 2°5 cm., and the length very slightly more. It 
bears some resemblance to the print in the Chester Museum described in 
Part ii. 1904, page 281, as I, but the breadth of the foot is greater, and 
there is a very slight indication of the print of the first digit. It is 
labelled, ‘ Rhynchosaurus, Grinshill, Salop.’ 
South Staffordshire. 
A large slab of red sandstone about 2 feet square, the first on the left 
of the lower row, is labelled ‘ Footprints of Rhynchosaurus Articeps, 
Owen, from Corven Burwood, near Wolverhampton, Lower Keuper Sand- 
stone (Waterstones), Rev. F. Catt.’ This is evidently from Coven, Bre- 
wood, Staffordshire, a locality that has contributed very similar slabs also to 
the British Museum, Natural History, the Liverpool and the Worcester 
Museums. Allof them are, unfortunately, so crowded with prints that it is 
difficult to recognise any as even fairly perfect. They are undoubtedly 
Rhynchosauroid and probably D3. The surface represented by the slabs 
in the museums mentioned, which look as if they all came from the 
same bed, must have been many square yards in extent, and the crowded 
state of the prints points to the presence of a very large number of indi- 
viduals. 
In the glass case before referred to as containing some smaller speci- 
mens of footprints is a small piece of chocolate-coloured sandstone, with 
prints of fore and hind feet of D 3, slightly smaller than those in the 
large slab. It is labelled ‘ Rhynchosaurus, Brewood, Staffordshire, Rev. 
P. B. Brodie.’ The print and the matrix are almost identical with those 
found by Mr. Beeby Thompson, F.G.S., in the same district. ! 
Another small slab from Brewood has a Cheirotheroid print not quite 
perfect, but apparently of A 2 form. 
Among those without labels is a footprint (impression) in very white 
sandstone, a little to the right of the large Brewood slab. The print in 
size almost equals A 3 Cheirotherium Herculis, but in form it more 
resembles A 1 C. Stortonense ; the digits are rather long and taper to 
quite a fine point. 
Only a small proportion of the footprints have been mentioned, but 
the whole collection is of great interest, and the presence of footprints 
from Henley-in-Arden and Preston Bagot shows that the exposures of 
footprint beds are not restricted to a small area. 
From the latter place, Preston Bagot, there is an imperfect A form, 
with short stout digits, probably of A 2, with a slight trace of the fore- 
foot. This is labelled ‘ Labyrinthodon Footsteps, Upper Keuper Trias, 
Preston Bagot, purchased.’ 
This report has confined itself to the footprint slabs, but the Museum 
collection includes a number of vertebrate and invertebrate fossils and 
plant remains from the Trias of the district, which we must hope will be 
recorded elsewhere. 
1 See B.A. Trias Report, Part ii., 1904, p. 277. Also Geological Magazine, May 
1902, by Dr. A. S. Woodward. 
