150 A. E. Trueman — Fauna of Hydraulic Limestone. 



III. — The Fauna of the Hydraulic Limestones in South Notts. 

 By A. E. Trueman, B.Sc, University College, Nottingham. 



ALTHOUGH numerous papers, principally by the late E. Wilson, 1 

 describing the beds of the Rhsetic and the Lower Lias of Notts, 

 "were published while exposures existed along railway cuttings in 

 the south-east of the county, no account of the precise positions of 

 important fossils is to be found. These exposures are now all grass- 

 grown, but the junction of Rhsetic and Lias may be seen in a number 

 of quarries where hydraulic limestone is worked, either for cement or 

 for road material. One of the best is at Owthorpe. Those at 

 Cotgrave Gorse, 2 Barnstone, 3 Plumtree "Wolds, and Normanton Hills* 

 are confirmatory. The layers rich in Foraminifera have been of value 

 in correlating these sections. 



Constructed from the Index Map of the Geological Survey, No. 11. 



The section at Owthorpe (300 yards S.S.W. of the Lime Kiln Inn) 

 shows the following succession (the names given in brackets are the 

 workmen's terms) : — 



Q.J.G.S., vol. xxxviii, p. 454. 



Geology of Melton Mowbray and South-East Notts (Mem. Geol. Surv. 



Jurassic Rocks of Britain, vol. iii, p. 172. 



Geology of Melton Mowbray and South-East Notts, pp. 17, 18. 



),p. 19. 



