Dr. Henry Woodivard — Cretaceous Crustacea, Denmark. 487 



spoken, but a little of it goes a long way with the intelligent and 

 friendly people. 



" Approaching the quarry from the north, the low green hill rises 

 before one like a high railway embankment, and on entering by an 

 upland path, or through the cutting for the transport railway, one 

 finds that a large portion of the hill has already been excavated, in 

 a shape between the letter L and a high boot narrowed at the top. 

 The greatest length, about half a mile, is from east to west, and the 

 cliffs or walls which practically surround the quarry, rise to heights 

 varying from 60 to 80 feet. The character of the rock ranges from 

 a compact creamy or pale yellow limestone, used for building 

 purposes, to ordinary white chalk, coral occurring in large masses 

 in this ancient coral-reef. Unfortunately I have no notes of the 

 sequence of the beds, and probably the zones have not yet been 

 worked out. The fossils of most frequent occui'rence are the coral 

 Cladocora dichotoma, carapaces of Dromiopsis rugosa, and casts of 

 Nautilus (Hercoglosaa) danicus and Trochus IcBvis. BacuUtes Faujusii, 

 always mentioned as characteristic of this deposit, must be more 

 frequent or better preserved in the ' Faxelaget ' of Stevus Klint and 

 the island of Moen. If we met with it at all in Faxe, it was rarely. 

 The prevalence of Gasteropods is a marked feature, and among the 

 more striking of our acquisitions are a Voluta allied to V. Zamberti 

 and a large Pleiirotomaria. The shells almost always occur as casts. 



" Fallen boulders of pink granite may occasionally be noticed in 

 the quarry, and one at least was then in situ, near its northern 

 entrance." — C. Birley. 



The youngest member of the Cretaceous formation of Scandinavia 

 is the Danian of Faxe (spelt incorrectly ' Faxoe ' by Darwin,^ 

 Prestwich, and others). This stage is wanting in England, but has 

 its equivalent in the Danian and Maestrichtian systems of Belgium 

 and Holland, and the Calcaire Pisolitique and Calcaire a BacuUtes 

 of France. Accoi'ding to Prestwich it is from 45 to 50 feet thick, 

 and consists almost entirely of fragments of corals and Polyzoans 

 (Bryozoa), with Nautilus Danicus, Belemnitella mucronata, BacuUtes 

 Faujasii, Cyprcda hullaria, etc." 



K. 0. Segerberg ^ writes: — "The lower layer of the Faxe 

 Chalk is composed of compact or hard tubular limestone, largely 

 composed of corals, hence called coral-chalk. Here and there one 

 finds a lighter and less compact bed almost wholly composed of 

 Bi-yozoa. Both the coral-chalk and the Bryozoa-chalk are very rich 

 in fossils, contrasting in this respect with the Saltholms Chalk, 

 which is a more homogeneous, and in its upper layer looser, chalk- 

 rock, formed under other conditions than the Faxe Chalk, which 

 is the remains of an old coral-reef." 



1 Charles Darwin described some remains of Cirripedia (Pollicipes striatm, 

 F. elegans) from Faxo (incorrectly spelt Faxoe), Denmark: I'al. Soc, 1851, pp. 70, 76. 

 It is, I regret, spelt ' Faxoe ' on the Plate accompanying this paper.: — H. W. 



2 Prestwich's " Geology," 1888, vol. ii, pp. 7 and 302. 



' " Do Anomura och Brachyura Dekapoderna inom Skandinaviens Yngre Krita " : 

 Gaol. Foren. I Stockholm Forhandl., 1900, Bd. xxii, H. 5, p. 1. 



