Table of the stratified Deposits beneath the Coal-ra 



1 the Counties of Hereford, Salop, Montgomery, Radnor 



DESCENDINI 



Brecknock, Caermarthen, Monmouth, Worcester, Stafford and Gloucester. ) 



Carboniferous limestone. 



Old red sandstone. 



I. Ludlow rocks. 



IV. Builth and Llandeilo 



Limestone. Shale. 



a. Red conglomerate 



and sandstone. 



b. Cornstone and ai^l- 



laceous marb. 



d. Upper Ludlow rock. 



/. Lower Ludlow rock. 



Lilhological Characters. 



;rlying thick-bedded sandst 



■>, hard, red and green sandstone. 



grey-coloured, thin-bedded sandstone. 



Subcrystalline or gray and blue argillaceous limestone . 



ff. Highly concretionaiy gray and blue subcrystalline lin 



and finely laminated, 



/. Dark-coloured flags, mostly calcareous, with 



Characteristic Organic liemai 



(Defence and teeth of fishes. Clee Hill, Salop.) 



a. No organic remains observed .... 



b. Crustacea of undescribed genera . 



rulites 





Small Orthoccra. Small Icbthyodo 



d. Avicula, n. s. A. retroflexa, Hisinger. Atrypa (Dalman), n. s. Cypri- 



cardia, n. s. Homonolotus Knightii, new genua, Kiinig. Leptirna lata, 

 V. Buch. Orthis, several new species. Orbicula, 2 new species. Ortbo- 

 cera, several new species. Pleurotomaria 1 2 new species. Turbo, n. s. 

 Gigantic serpuline bodies, Bic. Sic. 



e. Pentamerus Knightii, M. C. Pileopsis vetusta, M. C. Bellerophon, n. s. 



Lingula, n. s. Atrypa, n. s. Terebratula Wilsoni, M. C. Calamopora 

 fibrosa, Goldf., and a few other corals. 

 /. I'hragmoceras, new genus, Broderip, 3 species. Asaphus caudatus. 

 Ichthydorulites i small. " Cardiok/' Bred., a new genus, 2 sp. Nau- 

 tilus, n. s. SpinilJtes, 2 n. s. Pentamerus. Atrypa galeata, Dalm., n. s. 

 Pleurotomaria, n, s. Orthocera pyriformis, n. s. and several others. 



Producta depressa, M. C. Orthocera, several species, 

 caudatus. Calyniene Blumenbachii. The Ear Trilobite and others. 

 As. caudatus variety, C. Blumenbachii. Lingida, n. s. Orthis, n. 

 and others, Cyrtia trapezoidalis, Dalm. Delthyris, n. s. Orthocci 

 ti. a. O. annulata, M. C. Crinoidea, &c. 



i. Pentamerus Isvis, M. C. P. ohlongus, n. s. Leptena, n. s. PUeopsis, 

 n. s. Orthis Callactis, Dalm., and several new species. 



Terehratida, n. s. 1 r ..^ _„. 



Tentaculites and Crinoidea, abundant, j 



k. Nucula, n. s. Pentamerus, n. s. 'Irilobites of undescribed species, and 

 14 species of the genus Orthis have been found, including 0. apertu- 

 ratus, Dalm., all differing from those of the overlying formations. 



e yet been observed in this gi'eat system. 



. Caermarthen and Brecon Fans, S.E. partof Biac.^ Forest, Brecknockshire : danks 

 of the Brown Clee Hill, Shropshire. 



. Central and northern parts of Herefordahire : extern part of Brecknockshire : 

 Whitbach near Ludlow, and base of the Clee Hi]ls,*"Shropshite : Tenbury and 

 Shaterford, near Kidderminster, Worcestershire. 



, Pontarlleche, Cwmdwr, Caermarthenshire : Clyro Hilla, Brecknockshire: Tin- 

 mill Copse, near Downton Castle, Herefordshh-e : Clun Forest, Shropsliire. 



shire : West flanks of Mab 



May Hill, Tortworth, Gl< 



Trewerne Hills, Com-y-fan, Brecon, Llanbad( 

 Aymestry, Croft Ambry, Gatley, Brindgwood Chase, Downton on the Rock 



Herefordshire: Yeo Edge, Sbelderton, Norton Camp, Dinchopc, Caynham 



Camp, Shropshire : Sedgeley, Staflbrdshire. 

 Esearpmonta of Mocktree and Brindgwood Chase, Gatley, and valley of Wool- 



Iiope, Herefordshire : Marrington Dingle, Westhope, Hopedale, and Long 



Mountain, Shropshire : west side of Abberley and Malvern Hills; escarpmcnS 



in Montgomery, Radnor, Brecknock and Caermarthenshires. 



Lincoln Hill, Benthall and Wenlock Edge, Shropshire : Burrington, Nether Lye 

 near Aniestry, Nash, near Presteignb, Old Radnor : PwU-Calch, Caermarthen- 

 shire : valley of Woolhope, Ledbury, and west side of Malvern Hills- east side 

 of Abberley Hills, Dudle^r, Worcestershire : Long Hope, near May Hill Glou- 



cestershire : Prescold t 



, Buildwaa, Hui 

 gomery, Rao 

 Hilla, Alfrick, Worcestershire 



ev, 



d Cil-na-Caya, i 



and Clungunford, Salop : 



, Wistan; 



Brecknock and Caermarthenshires : west flank of Malvern 

 of Wren's Nest, Dudley, &c. &c. 



Banks of the Onny, near Horderley, Acton Burnell, CbatwalJ : the Hollies near 

 Hope Bowdler, Cheney LongWlle, Acton Scott ; east flank of Wrekin and Caer 

 Caradoc, Salop : Eastnor Park, Obelisk, and centre of Woolhope Valley, Here- 

 fordshire ; May HiU, Gloucestershire. 



Horderley, Hoar Edge, Long Lane, and Corton, Shropshire: Ankerdine HDI, 

 Old Stomdge, Howler Heath, S.W. of Malvern Hifis, Worcesterahire : May 

 Hili, Gloucestershu-e: and the same locaHtiea as i in Shropshire: Guilsfiel& 

 and Alt-y -naen, Montgomeryshire : CasteU Craig, Gwyddon, Caermarthen- 



Rorington, near Shelve, Shropshire : Liaudrindod and WcUfield, i 

 Radnorshire : Tan-yr-Alt to Llandeilo, Caermarthenshire. 



3 Longniynd Linley, Haughmond, Lyth, Pulverbatch Hills, i 

 en, east ot Rhayader, Brecon, &c. &c. : hills west of Llandov 



N.B. No vegetable remains, except the Fi 

 duals have heen mentioned as i 

 None of the species of corals or shells 



serra (Brongn-), and some ■ 



of each subdivision- Others, 



identical with those found in the tr 



been found in any portion of the deposits below the carboniferous limestone, nor has any coaly matter, 

 -. {Atrypa reliciilarit, Wahl.), wliich occurs in several formations, have been omitted in this short Table, 



It carboniferous limestone. 



idstoncs (land A) pass into quartz rock in the vicinity of certain trap rocks (Wrekin, Caer Caradoc, Blaen Dyfiringam, &c.), as will be explained in a Bubacquent Mcmoi 



beyond small nests of Anthracite. In the list of organic i 

 but wdl be given hereafter in a full and descrintive aSmf 



