32 L. J. Wilis—Fossiliferous Keuper at Bromsgrove. 
but some are true marls, and break up into very fine fragments by 
rudely spheroidal weathering. The brown shales are well seen in 
Mr. Griffin’s north quarry, where the 9 foot bed shown in the 
section has yielded good fossils, especially leaves of Zamites, which 
occur usually where the sediment changes from the sandy to the marly 
facies. ‘These shales also show the same evidence of quick or even 
torrential sedimentation. The green ones are mostly sandy, and are 
best seen at the base of Mr. Griffin’s south quarry, where they contain 
patches, absolutely black with vegetable matter, and quite free from 
sand. These sandy green shales are often minutely rippled, and 
apart from the black patches contain many fragments of plants and 
? Arachnida. In Mr. Willcox’s south quarry there are some red shales 
which have so far proved barren. 
As regards the fossils, the most characteristic feature is the abundance 
of plants and Arachnidan remains. The latter are fragmentary. 
Murchison and Strickland! recorded from the Lower Keuper of 
Worcestershire— 
Echinostachys oblongus, Brongn. 
Part of a flabelliform palm-leaf. 
Broad leaf of some Monocotyledonous plant. 
Many narrow Monocotyledonous leaves resembling grasses. 
Moulds of stems of doubtful character. 
Mr. E. A. Newell Arber, who has very kindly assisted me by 
determining the plants, has examined their specimen of Hchinostachys 
preserved at the Museum of the Geological Society, and regards it as 
a male cone of Voltzia. These were the only plants known from this 
horizon. 
The following is a list of the fossils 1 have found, divided into those 
preserved in— 
(i) The Sandstone. (a) Zhe Shales. 
PLANTR. PLANTA. 
Equisetites arenaceus (Jaeger) : Lquisetites arenaceus (Jaeger): pith-casts. 
pith-casts and leaves. Equisetites sp. 
Zamites Vegesiacus (Schimper & ? Chiropteris digitata, Brongn. 
Mougeot) : leaves. ? Plerophyllum sp. 
Voltzia sp.: external surface of stem, Zamites Vogesiacus (Schimper & 
male cone, and pith-casts of stems. Mougeot) : leaves. 
Coniferous wood. Voltzia sp.: pith-casts of stem and male 
Pisces. cones. 
Spine, of Acrodus. Conites sp. 
Coprolite. ARTHROPODA. 
AMPHIBIA. Eistheria minuta. 
Teeth 2; cranial, vertebral, and other Many fragments of PArachnida.+ 
bones of a Labyrinthodon PIscEs. 
(Mastodonsaurus) 2 Dipteronotus cyphis. 
REPTILIA. Scales. 
Hyperodapedon Gordoni.® 
1 Op. cit., p. 340. 
2 One of these is broken and shows very distinctly with a lens the characteristic 
structure. 
3 Part of the palato-maxillary bone, with three rows of teeth. ; 
4 T have shown some of these to Dr. Bather, who thinks that they may probably 
be referred to the Arachnida. 
