1856.] WRIGHT UPPER LIAS SANDS. 297 



Fossils of the Cephalopoda-bed — d, e, f. 



The lower part of bed d contains many fossils, which are not well 

 preserved ; they are sufficiently characteristic, however, to prove the 

 identity of this rock with " the Cephalopoda-bed" in other parts of 

 the Cotteswold Range. 



Cephalopoda, 



Ammonites opalinus, Reinecke (primordialis, Schlotheim), d' Orhigny , Terr. 

 Jurass. pi. 62. 



A. hircinus, Schlotheim, Zieten, Wurttemherg, pi. 15. fig. 3. 

 Nautilus inomatus, d'Orbigny, Terr. Jurass. pi. 14. fig. 1. 

 Belemnites compressus, Blainv., Voltz, Observations sur las Belemnites, 



pi. 5. figs. 1, 2. 



B. breviformis, Voltz, ibid. pi. 2. figs. 2-4. 



Gasteropoda. 



Pleurotomaria 1 • , • u i 



m , J- interior moulds only. 



Conchifera. 



Myacites abductus?, Phil. 



Pholadomya fidicula. Sow., small var., very distinct from the large type- 

 form of this shell. 



Gervillia Hartmanni, Munst., Goldfuss, Petr. Germ. tab. 115. fig. 7. 



Fistulanal, sp. 



Trigonia Ramsayii, Wright, nov. sp. (Palseontological notes appended to 

 this memoir.) 



Trichites ; species indeterminable, as the specimens are all fragmentary. 



CucuUaea, nov. sp. 



Brachiopoda. 



Rhynchonella cynocephala, Richard, Davidson, Monogr. Oolitic Brach. 

 pi. 14. fig. 10. 



Anthozoa. 



Montlivaltia ; species indeterminable. 



Section II. — Crickley Hill near Cheltenham. 



The Pea-grit {Inferior Oolite) . 



Ft. in. 



A. A coarse ooUtic limestone, with large grains and numerous 



concretionary bodies ; exceedingly hard and crystalline 



in parts about 25 



B. A coarse pisolitic limestone, composed of flattened con- 



cretionary bodies which are round, oval, or flattened like 



crushed peas about 19 8 



c. A coarse brown rock, very ferruginous and full of large 



oohtic grains about 10 



The Cephalopoda-bed (Upper Lias). 



D. A brownish marly matrix very full of large oolitic grains 



of hydrate of iron, which impart a speckled appearance 



to this bed 2 6 



E. A dark-greyish limestone, very hard and crystalline .... 1 6 



