E. C. Martin — Neio Red Gravels of the Tiverton District. 155 



Pieces of soft red sandstone, crowded with fossils, are very common. 

 A single piece, about two feet long, yielded the following species: — 



Fhacops latifrons, Bronn (at least twenty Sjiirifer Urii, Flem. 



heads, but only one tail). Rhynchonella Parlridgice, "Whidb. (very 

 BellernpJion subglobatiis, M'Coy (very common). 



common). Productus prmlo^Hjus, Sow. (very 

 E'uomphalus vermis, , Whidb. (very common). 



common). Stropholosia productoides, Mm'ch., sp. 



Fleurotomaria aspera, Sow. Seminula ohlonga, Sow., sp. 



Tentaculites tentaculare, Phil., sp. jithyris [CleiotJiyris) Jioyssii, Leveille. 



? Macrochilina turbinea, Whidb. Orthoceras Barumense, Whidb. 



? Naticopsis HalUi, Whidb. Aviculopecten transversus, Sow., sp. 



? Murchisonia sp. Several undetermined Lamellibranchs. 



Spirifer Verneuili, Mmxh. (very common). Crinoid joints. 



Another piece of sandstone was crowded with casts of Cucullcea similar 

 to those occurring in the Mar wood Beds of North Devon. 



Spalslury Outlier. 



A small patch of gravel between Chimney Down and TJplowman is 

 exposed in a gravel-j)it near Spalsbury. Crinoidal fragments of grit 

 were found here. 



3. BUTTERLEIGH DiSTEICT. 



This includes the district south-east of Tiverton embraced in the 

 Ordnance Survey one-inch map. Sheet 3iO. 



The Exeter Hill gravel-pit, near Tiverton, is mentioned in a letter 

 by H. B. Woodward, F.G.S., to the Geol. Mag. (1872, p. 574), 

 calling attention to the resemblance between the New Bed deposit 

 exposed there and the Boulder-clays. Here, as elsewhere, fragments 

 with Upper Devonian fossils occur. One piece of grit contained 

 numerous casts of the small Gasteropod Bellerophon suhglohatus, 

 M'Coy. Another contained a Lamellibranch similar to Pleuronectites 

 Filtonensis, Whidb. 



Similar gravel-pits occur at Boad Farm and south of Butte rleigh, 

 and in both fossiliferous fragments have been detected. They have 

 also been found in the road sections near Ford, and on the Tiverton 

 road 1^ miles north-west of Cullompton. On the common above 

 Trinity a piece of grit with Stropholosia productoides, Murch., sp., was 

 found. 



Between Tiverton and Butterleigh the fragments of grit are 

 gathered off the fields and used for road-mending. In these fragments 

 the following species have been found : — 



Phacops latifrons, Bronn. Stropholosia productoides, Isiur oh.., sp. 



Spirifer Verneuili, Murch. Ftnestella plebcia, M'Coy. 



S. Urii, Flem. ? Fistulipora sp. 



Orthis interlineata. Sow. ? Ctenodonta lirata, Phil., sp. 



Phynohonella Partridgice, Whidb. Crinoid joints. 



4. SiLVERTOJf AND BrADNINCH DiSTEICT. 



A full account of the geology of this district will be found in 

 the Memoirs of the Geological Survey, Exeter district, by 

 W. A. E. Ussher. In the Silverton and Bvadninch district the 



