J. p. Walker — Terehraiula Morieri in England. 553 



The most important discovery is that of the well-marked species 

 Terebratula Morieri, which has hitherto only been found in France. 

 It was first described and figured by Mr. Davidson in the Annals of 

 Natural History for 1852, vol. is. (second series) p. 256, pi. xiv. fig. 3 

 and a, h, — the MS. name of Terebratula Morieri having been given 

 to it by Deslongchamps after its discoverer M. Moriere. It was 

 afterwards described and figured by E. Deslongchamps in 1857, 

 " Catalogue descriptif des Brachiopodes du systeme Oolitique Inferieur 

 du Calvados," p. 37, pi. iv. fig. Q, a,h; and in 1877, in the Paleon- 

 tologie FranQaise Terrain Jurassique, Brachiopodes, p. 244, pi. ixv. 

 figs. 1-8. It is a very rare species, having been found in France in 

 only one locality, Ste. Honorine des Perthes (Calvados), in the white 

 Oolite of Port-en-Bessin, which contains Terebratula PhilUpsii, 

 Morris, and Bhynchonella plicatella, Sow. ; these species occur with it 

 in England. 



There appears to have been some doubt whether in France this 

 species had been found in position, or in a loose block which might 

 have fallen from the Great Oolite above. M. Deslongchamps 

 regarded it as an Inferior Oolite fossil, but the finding of this 

 species settles the question with regard to its age, as no Great Oolite 

 occurs in the quarry from which I obtained this specimen. 



Whilst examining the well-known quarry at Bradford Abbas, on 

 the farm of Prof. Buckman, I picked up this specimen from the 

 horizon of Bhynchonella parviila, E. Desk, but did not recognize it 

 until I commenced to clean it ; it corresponds in all respects with 

 the figured specimens, showing the deep sinus in both valves and 

 the peculiar concentric projecting imbricated ridges which well 

 distinguish this species. It laelongs to a small group, of which it is 

 the earliest representative, followed, in the Fuller's Earth rock, by 

 Terebratula reticulata and the closely-allied or identical species 

 Terebratula hybrida, and in the Great Oolite by Terebratula coarctata. 

 The specimen is about the size of figure 7 in ]dL 65, Pal. Frang. 

 Brachiopodes Jurassique. It is well preserved, both valves being 

 perfect. I also obtained from the quarries at Half Way House a 

 specimen of Bhynchonella subdecorata, and one or two specimens of 

 Bhyn. ringens unusually large for English specimens. Also three 

 specimens of a Waldheimia which appears to be Waldheimia sub- 

 hucculenta, Chap, et Dew., and probably the same as the species 

 figured, but not named, by Mr. Davidson in his paper on the Dorset 

 Brachiopoda, pi. iii. figs. 14-15. Waldheimia subbucculenta is stated 

 to occur in France in the lower part of the Fuller's Earth, but 

 probably what in England would be called the upper part of the 

 Inferior Oolite. It is a species which is closely allied to W. Waltoni, 

 Dav., and somewhat resembles W. indentata and W. perforata of the 

 Lias; W. humeralis of the Kimmeridge; and pseiidojurensis of theNeo- 

 comian. It is a long, narrow, flat shell, tapering towards the beak 

 and front margin, foramen small, beak ridges well defined, and a dark 

 line on the smaller valve indicates the presence of a septum, showing 

 that the loop was long. It will be figured with the other species in 

 the appendix to Mr. Davidson's supplement to his great work on 

 Jurassic Brachiopoda. 



