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station, a fiue section (80 feet) from Keuper to Drift, including 

 Lower Lias, having been excavated for brickmaking. The shales are 

 seen in the railway embankments to the north-east at the base. 



Messrs. "Wilson & Quilter ' were the first to describe this section in 

 detail, and this summarized was as follows : — 



ft. in. 



Boulder-clay . 



Lower Lias .... 



Upper Rhffitics (called White Lias) 



Lower Ehseties 



Tea-green Marl 



Eed Marl .... 



79 2 (to 98ft. 2in.) 



They note the fact that there is no true bone-bed, but an evanescent 

 seam of white sand, with scattered teeth, coprolites, etc. From the 

 Lower Hhfetics they record Isodonta eivaldi, ProtocardkimpMlippicmum^ 

 Avicula contorta, Gyrolepis, Acrodus minimus, Hyhodus minor, 

 Saarichtliys, Nemacanthus. They found the cast of a single ray of 

 OpMolepis damesii, but not in situ. They report fish-remains at 

 a definite horizon, 3 ft. 6 in. to 3 ft. 9 in. above the bone-bed. They 

 found the junction between the Tea-green Marl and Black Shales 

 sharp, but the beds conformable. The former are referred to the 

 Keuper, into the Red Marls of which they imperceptibly graduate. 

 The Lower Lias in a smaller pit was found to consist of 1 ft. 9 in. of 

 flaggy limestones and shales, and above 7 feet of laminated blue 

 shales. The dip was two degrees to the north-west. The existence 

 of a small fault- was noticed. 



In a later paper Quilter speaks of the Tea- green Marls as eroded 

 at the top. The Gyrolepis is referred to O. tenuistriatus {— G. albertii), 

 and tlie SaiiricMhys to S. apicalis ( = /S. acuminatm). Pecten 

 valoniensis is added to the list of fossils in the Black Shales. The 

 yellow blue-hearted nodular limestone at the top is regarded as 

 equivalent to the " sun-bed ". In a later paper the same writer adds 

 Pholidophoriis nitidus to the list of fossils in the Black Shales, and 

 appends a list of fossils found in the Ilhastics of Leicestershire, 

 including those found by Harrison, adding Plicatula intiistriata. 



Dr. A. S. "Woodward examined some fish-remains obtained by 

 Mr. A. E. Baker from the Spinney Hills, which included Hyhodus 

 minor, S. cloacinus (new to Britain), Acrodus minimus, Nemacanthus, 

 Sphenonchus, Gyrolepis alhertii, Sargodon, SauricMhys acuminaf us, and 

 Ceratodus latissimus. Some fish from "Wigston obtained by "Wilson 

 are assigned to Pholidophorics nitidus (a small form of P. higginsi). 

 This was obtained in cores from the Evington boring with Avicula 

 contorta, etc. 



In 1891 M. Browne, from material in the Baker Collection from 

 Spinney Hill, identified Ctenoptychius ordii as the worn basis of 



^ J. Plant (1866) noticed the occurrence of Ehgetic beds on the Leicester and 

 Nuneaton line in 1863. 



- A similar fault is shown in the section at Diseworth Street, east of 

 Spinney Hills. 



