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FISHER — BRACKLESHAM BEDS. 



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8 (a). Bark sandy clay, with 

 biviilves) 



Eost<»llaria ampla. 

 Fusus (? regularis). 

 Pleurotoma exorta. 

 Voluta nodosa. 

 Turritella imbricataria. 

 ? Melania. 

 Calrptra^a. 

 Solarium plicatum. 



fossils (principally small 



ft. in. 

 9 



Area aviculina. 

 Leda (common). 

 Nucida. 



Cardium parile. 

 Cardita globosa. 

 Cultellus. 

 Corbula pisum. 



BracJclesham Series. 

 7. Dark sandy clay 15 6 



6. Indurated, dark-greenish, sandy clay, with impressions 

 of fossils 1 



Fusus ? undosus. 

 Miirex asper. 

 Pyrida uexilis. 

 Tiirritella imbricataria. 

 Natica ambulacrum. 

 Deutalium. probably the species 



found at Himting Bridge. 

 Cardium parile. 

 Cardita ? sp. (abundant) ; ribs 



acute and numerous, rather 



small. 



Cytherea lucida. 



suberycinoides. 



Sanguinolaria Hollowaysii. 



Modiola. 



Tellina plagia. 



? filosa. 



? Branderi (common 



at Hunting Bridge). 



?sp. 



Area aviculina. 



fossils 



Fusus ? undosus. 



Voluta nodosa. 



Natica. 



Phoru.s agglutinans. 



Turritella sulci fera. 



Dentaliimi. 



Teredo (in wood). 



Pecten comeus. 



Cardium parile. 



(rather small and broad 



species, unknown). 



Cardita (rather small, with nu- 

 merous acute ribs; very 

 abundant, the same as in the 



Cardita (with fewer ribs ; 



rare). 

 Cytherea obliqua. 



suberycinoides. 



lucida. 



Tellina ? tumescens. 



? sp. 



? sp. 



Sanguinolaria Hollowaysii. 



Panopaea corrugata. 



Leda. 



Modiola (or Mz/t/lns), n. sp. 







5. Dark sandy clay, containing a bed of septaria, like 



those beneath Rothsay Castle, High Cliff 11 



4. Indurated, greyish, sandy clay, with impressions of 



7 



last bed). 

 3. Dark sandy clay, weathering greenish -grey, containing 



carbonaceous matter 10 



2. Conglomerate of large Hint-pebbles 10 



1. Sands of varioas shades of yellow, white, and crimson. 



The lower 4.3 feet of this section appear to belong to the Brackle- 

 ftham Beds. 



Mr. l*restwi«h has remarked on the change of character in the 

 organic remains towards the lower part of his stratum No. 29 (Journ. 

 vol. ii. p. 242). The species, as he obseiTCS, an; those of a sha]h>\v 

 Bca. hut if 1 have determined tlicm aright, several of them belong 



