374 REPORT—1899. 
Productus longispinus Sanguinolites, sp. 
= Cora Bellerophon Hiuleus 
- scabriculus + Orei 
.  Chonetes Laguessiana Ewomphalus, sp. 
Pleurotomaria monilifera 
Macrocheilus, sp. 
The fauna found in the excavations for a reservoir at Eccup, near Leeds, 
contains numerous species identical with those found at Congleton Edge. 
Messrs. Barnes and Holroyd drew my attention this year to a bed of 
grit con the east flank of Pule Hill, Marsden, filled with fossils—chiefly 
casts. The number of specimens is large but the variety small, and 
including :— 
Goniatites, sp. Sedgnickia attenuata 
Pleurotomaria, sp. Schizodus antiquus 
Bellerophon, sp. Myalina Verneuillii. 
Lingula, sp. » Llemingi. 
Nowhere in the district do limestones of any thickness occur between 
the limestone ‘massif’ below and the base of the Millstone Grit which 
corresponds to the Yoredale series ; and I consider that there are no 
grounds for assuming that the beds of shale and sandstone which occur in 
this position in the South Pennine area are in any way the equivalents of 
the Yoredale series of Wensleydale. 
The Mountain Limestone.—Since Messrs. Barnes and Holroyd drew 
my attention to the occurrence at Castleton of beds of rolled shells, and 
limestone pebbles with occasional quartz pebbles, which occupy the highest 
portions of the ‘massif’ of Mountain Limestone, and which they interpret 
as contemporaneous limestone beach, I, with Mr. A. Howe, have traced 
this bed over North Staffordshire, Cheshire, and Derbyshire, wherever the 
upper beds are exposed. It seems to have been laid down as a shore which 
retreated from north to south, before the shales were laid down upon it. 
Various shells occur in this beach. Chonetes papilionacea, and Producti, 
Strophomena analoga, trilobites and many teeth of Psammodus, Psephodus, 
and other fish remains, which are very similar to those of the main limestone 
Leyburn. Below this bed come highly fossiliferous beds of corals, molluscs, 
with others of encrinital origin. Below still comea series of limestones with 
narrow bands of chert and beds of encrinites, and finally hard, thick-bedded 
limestones with sparse fossils. 
All the celebrated fossiliferous localities of Derbyshire and Stafford- 
shire occur at the top of the limestone massif, where all the species occur 
together in the same bed. Most of the fossils are semi-rolled, and very 
few lamellibranchs have both valves in contact, and I doubt if they are 
in the place where the animals died. Elsewhere in the series fossil 
mollusca are rare. 
I am unable to find any fossils distinctive of zones in the limestone 
of this area, with perhaps one exception, and that local. Productus hume- 
rosus characterises the Cauldon Low beds, but is not found elsewhere. 
These beds I consider to come near the top of the massive beds of limestone. 
It is the intention of Mr. Howe and myself to publish a paper of 
details on the occurrence of the conglomerate beds and the carboniferous 
sequence in this area in the near future, for which we are now gathering 
statistics. ' 
