Cephalopoda - bed 

 = Gryphite G 

 of Buckuian. 



GLOUCESTER, DORSET, AND iOMERSET. 7 



Section of Bradford- Abbas (East-Bill) Quarry. 



ft. in. f Trigonia Grit of 



1. Soil 4J Buckman, Geol. 



[ of Cheltenham. 



2. White oolite with irregular cleavage 6 



3. Band of marl, with Astarte and Lima, Belem- 1 ^ n\ 



nites, &c J 



4. Hard ironshot rock, with Ammonites, Belem- 1 •• « 



nites, &c j 



5. Band of brownish stone, marlj at top, full of 1 Q Q . "^G^SSteGrit 



Univalves and Ammonites J f nfR ,X ftn 



o. Ironshot oolite, a mass of Cephalopods 1 



7. Marl with Astarte trigonalis 3 



8. Bed with A. aalensis 9 



9. Blue-centred oolite, with Isocardia concentrica . 1 2 

 10. Reddish sands, commencing the lower freestone system of the Cotteswolds. 



How far the term Cephalopoda-bed for the fossiliferous portion 

 of this section may be justified will at once be seen from the follow- 

 ing list of the family of fossils after which it has been named, the 

 whole of which have been found at Bradford Abbas, or the equivalent 

 bed near Sherborne. 



List of Cephalopoda from the Dorset equivalent of the " GryphiU 



Qritr 



Belemnites compressus, Blainv. Ammonites Garantianus, B f Orb. 



ellipticus, Miller. polymorphus, D Orb. 



giganteus, Vhill. Martinsii, B 1 Orb. 



abbreviatus, Sow. ooliticus, D'Orb. 



canaliculars, Schl. Eudesianus, D'Orb. 



Blainvilhi, Voltz. zigzag, B' Orb. 



terminalis, Philfr Tessonianus, B 1 Orb. 



anomalus, Phill. Edouardianus, B Orb. 



sulcatus, Mill. discus, Sow. 



Ammonites Truelli, B' Orb. Blagdeni, Sow. 



subradiatus, Sow. Humphresianus, Sow. 



■ laeviusculus, Sow. Braikenridgii, Sow. 



Murchisonse, Sow. Hnguiferus, B Orb. 



Sowerbyi, Miller. Brongniartii, Sow. 



cadomensis, -D' Orb. — - — Kaumontii, Z>' Orb. 



Parkinsoni, Sow., including A. Sauzei, B Orb. 



niortensis, B Orb., and A. dorset- Gervillii, Sow. 



ensis, Wright. dimorphus, B Orb. 



and others, with some un described forms. 



Ancyloceras annulatum, B 1 Orb. Ancyloceras subannulatuin, B' Orb. 

 bispinatum, B? Orb. 



(From D'Orbigny's Lias list.) 



Nautilus latidorsatus, 2)' Orb. Ammonites candidus, B' Orb., aalen- 



striatus, Sow. sis, Ziet. 



semistriatus, B" 1 Orb. cornucopia, Young. 



inornatus, i)' Orb. jurensis, Ziet. 



truncatus, Sow. Germainii, B' Orb. 



excavatus, Sow. insignis, Schubler. 



lineatus, Sow. variabilis, U Orb. 



sinuatus, Sow. concavus, Sow. 



clausus, Sow. torulosus, B'Orb. 



and others. 



