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Thickness in feet indies. 

 (Lamarck), 1 Pseudoglossothyris simplex (J. 



Buckman) : 3 to 7 inches 5 



(6) Limestone, similar to (a): Variamus- 

 sium pumilum (Lamarck), and Lima inocera- 

 moides Whidborne 7 



Ancoliocera s... Red Bed. Limestone, hard, grey, with a pink- 

 ish tinge ; Geyerina cf. evertens S. Buckman, 

 Eopecten velatus (Goldfuss), Terebratuhi con- 

 ylobata Deslongchamps, Galeropygus ayarici- 



fonn is (Wright) : 6 to 8 inches 8 



Grey or Cockle Bed. Limestone, hard, grey, 

 sandy to the touch ; ammonite of the 

 Hyatt ina-brasili S. Buckman aspect, Ceel- 

 astarte spp., Camptonectes sp., Ctenostreon sp., 

 Cevomya concentrica (J. de C. Sowerby), 

 Cucxdlsea oblonya J. Sowerby, Gresslya ab- 

 ducta (Phillips), Gryphsea cyynoides Whid- 

 borne, Lima inoceramoides Whidborne, Phola- 

 domya oblita Lycett, Pvotocardia sp., Tri- 

 gonia ? sculpta Lycett, Eopecten velatus 

 (Goldfuss), Pseudoylossotlt yris leesi S. Buck- 

 man, Terebratula spp., Berenicea sp. (usually 

 on the specimens of Lima), etc 1 1 



Scissi Sand-rock. Surface exposed. 



Mr. Charles Upton has examined for me a sample of the marl 

 from Bed 5, and reports having found the following fossils : 



Two small fish-teeth — one smooth, 

 the other fluted. 



Ostracoda. 



Bairdia hilda Jones. 

 Cytheropteroa sp. 

 Poly cope sp. 



FORAMINIFERA. 



Cristellaria acutauricularis Fichtel 

 & Moll. 



rotulata (Lamarck). 



tricarinata Reuss. 



Coruuspira cretacea Reuss. 



Flabellina pulchra A. d'Orbigny. 

 Nodosa ria affinis Terquem. 

 — — communis (A. d'Orbigny). 

 One specimen. 



raphanus (Linne). 



& 



Planularia crepidula Fichtel 



Moll. 



harpula (A. d'Orbigny). 



panperata Jones & Walker. 



Polymoi-phina lactea Walker & 



Jacob. 

 Textularia trochus A. d'Orbigny. 

 Vaginulina sp. 



The representative of the Astarte-obliqua Bed rests on a level, 

 waterworn, and iron-stained surface of the underlying bed. This 

 bed is of iMirehisonce-Ancoliocerax hcmera! — the greater portion 

 of the bed being of the earlier date. Writing of the Ancolioceras 

 Beds here Mr. Buckman observes : 



' At Misterton, which is near Crewkerne, the strata hitherto regarded as early 

 murchisonas yield Lytoceratoids of the style of PdcJiytytoceras aalenianum,' 2 



The Blue Bed is probably of early murcJiisonce hcmera and 

 correlative with what remains of the Murchisonce Beds at the 

 Conegar-Hill Section, Broadwindsor. The upper portion — that 



1 E. T. Paris & L. Richardson. Q. J. (I. S. vol. lxxi (1915 16) p. 529. 



2 Q. J. G. S. vol. lxvi (1910) p. 79. 



