TRANSACTIONS OF SECTION 0. 475 
In 1896 I placed a short study on the making of the Middle Lias Ironstone 
of the Midlands before the Iron and Steel Institute, which appeared in their 
‘ Proceedings.’ 
7. Estheria in the Bunter of South Staffordshire. 
By T. C. Cantrinn, B.Sc., F.G.S, 
Records of fossils in the British Bunter are few in number, and some are open 
to doubt in respect either of their organic character or of the stratigraphical 
position of the beds that yielded them. Omitting those cases where the horizon 
formerly supposed to be Bunter has been corrected later and is now accepted as 
settled, the following appears to be a complete list, in chronological order of 
their discovery :— 
1. Dictyopyge catoptera (Ag.), a small fish, from Rhone Hill, three miles 
8.E. of Dungannon, Co. Tyrone. Upper Bunter (f*). With this was associated 
Estheria portlocki. 
2. ‘Annelid tracks’ at Hilbre Point, Wirrall, Cheshire. Lower part of the 
Bunter Pebble Bed (£*). 
3. Plant-remains, referred to Schizoneura paradoxa, Schimper and Mougeot, 
at Sneinton Vale, near Nottingham. Uppermost bed of the Bunter Pebble 
Bed (f?). 
To these three older records can now be added the following new discovery* :— 
4. Lstheria cf. minuta (Alberti), from Ogley Hay, near Walsall, South Staf- 
fordshire. Bunter Pebble Bed (f?). 
These fossils were discovered in May 1911, when Mr. C. H. Cunnington and I 
were mapping the Triassic rocks bordering the eastern side of the coalfield. I 
suggested to my colleague that if fossils could be found anywhere in the Bunter 
they would most likely be discovered in the thin marl-bands occasionally inter- 
bedded in the predominant sandstones and conglomerates; and Mr. Cunnington’s 
hammer was the first to reveal the specimens. 
We obtained them from two thin bands of red marl in a disused sand-quarry 
at Ogley Hay, five miles N.E. of Walsall. The quarry forms a conspicuous 
excavation in the northern face of a sandstone hill, along the foot of which passes 
the Anglesey branch of the Wyrley and Essington Canal. The hamlet of New 
Town, on the Watling Street, lies 150 yards to the north of the quarry, while 
Ogley Hay Chemical Works stand 200 yards away to the south-east. Below a 
little drift gravel are exposed 22 feet of dull-red medium-grained soft sand-rock, 
in places false-bedded. Toward the bottom are two bands of red marl, about 
1 foot 8 inches apart, the lower one being about 2 feet above the bottom. They 
nowhere exceed 9 inches in thickness. Both marl-bands yielded poorly preserved 
remains, determined by Mr, H. A. Allen as Hstheria cf. minuta (Alberti). 
The ground is coloured on the old series one-inch map (62 N.E.) as Upper 
Bunter (f°); but the sandstones are coarser and duller in colour than the typical 
Upper Bunter of other Midland districts, and would more suitably be included 
_in the outcrop of the Pebble Beds (f*). The Triassic series dips at 3° to 5° 
toward E.N.E., in which direction the Pebble Bed sub-division appears to pass 
laterally into, and partly beneath, finer-grained and brighter-coloured sandstones 
that may be regarded as Upper Bunter. Above these follows the Lower Keuper 
Sandstone (f°). There is thus no question as to the beds in the quarry being 
Bunter, and every ground for referring them to the Pebble Bed sub-division. 
8. Notes on the Flora and Fauna of the Upper Keuper Sandstones of 
Warwickshire and Worcestershire. By L. J. Wiuus, M.A., F.G.S., 
and W. CampsBett Smiru, M.A., F.G.S. 
A group of sandstones associated with green shales have been shown by Dr. 
\A./C. Matley to form a more or less continuous belt in the Keuper Marls in 
Warwickshire, and to lie about 120-160 feet below the Rhetic. At the same 
horizon similar beds form an almost unbroken outcrop through Ripple, Longdon, 
* Communicated by permission of the Director of the Geological Survey. 
