THE 



GEOLOGICAL MAGAZINE. 



NEW SERIES. DECADE IV. VOL. X. 



So. III. — MARCH, 1903. 



(D:EITG-Xl<r Jk.lL, J^I^TIGXlES. 



L — On some Fossil Prawns from the Osborne Beds of the 

 Isle of Wight. 



By Henry Woodward, LL.D., F.R.S., F.G.S, 



(PLATE V.) 



rpHROUGH the intervention of my friend Mr. William Whitaker, 

 L F.E.S., I, some time ago, received from Mr. G. W. Colenutt, 

 F.G.S. , of Hanway Lodge, Ryde, Isle of Wight, 26 small slabs 

 of Osborne clay, on which are preserved, in a more or less good 

 state (generally less), a series of prawns and small shrimp-like 

 Crustaceans, collected by him from the Oligocene strata, Chapelcorner 

 Copse, between King's Quay and Wootton Creek, just to the west 

 of the Boat-house, on the shore below Binstead House ; also on the 

 shore below Ryde House, and immediately to the south-east of 

 Sea View Pier ; where (especially at Chapelcorner Copse) extremely 

 interesting exposures of the Osborne Beds may be seen and studied, 

 between the base of the cliff and low- water mark (see p. 99). 



These beds formed the subject of a paper by Mr. Colenutt (see 

 Geol. Mag., 1888, Dec. Ill, Vol. V, p. 358) ; while the small fishes 

 (Clupea vectensis) which occur associated with the Crustaceans were 

 described and figured in 1889 by Mr. E. T. Newton, F.E.S., F.G.S., 

 in the Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society (vol. xlv, 

 pp. 112-117, pi. iv). 



Since receiving the above specimens from Mr. Colenutt, I have 

 been favoured with three additional examples, also obtained from 

 King's Quay, by Mr. Reginald W. Hooley, of Ashton Lodge, 

 Ports wood, Southampton, who has paid considerable attention to 

 the fossils of the Tertiaries of Hampshire and the Isle of Wight. 



The entire series comprises fourteen examples of the larger form 

 (see PL V, Figs. 1-4) and fifteen of the smaller one (PL V, Figs. 5-7), 

 Figs. 1 and 4 of the former having been drawn from Mr. Colenutt's 

 and Figs. 2 and 3 from Mr. R. W. Hooley's cabinet. The smaller 

 form (Figs. 5-7) is from Mr. G. W. Colenutt's Museum. 



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