REPORT OP THE DIRECTOR 1898 



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CATAIiOGUE 



Collection of European fossils presented to the New York 

 state museum by Sir Roderick Murchison in 1857 



Classification of Strata 



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f Lower 

 Lias<i Middle 

 1^ Upper 

 luferioi' oolite 

 Fullers' earth 

 Great oolite 

 Forest marble 

 Jurassic-.^ Corubrasli 

 Oxford clay 

 Coral-rag 

 I Kimeridge clay 

 j Portland oolite 

 I Purbeck 



i We aid en 

 Lower greensand 

 f Gault 



I Upper greensand 

 Cretaceous <i Upper <;' Chloriiic marl 

 j Lower chalk 

 I Upper chalk 

 f Eocene 

 Tertiary.. <; 'Oligoceue 



I 

 Pleistocene 



Pliocene 



List of Fossils 



Jurassic. England 



Lower Lias 

 Echinodermata 

 Diadema minimum A gas 2 



BrachioiDoda 



Rhynchonella calcicosta Quenstedt 5 



R. moorei Davidson 5 



Lamellibranchiata 



Ostrea liassica StricJcl 1 



O. laeviuscula aSomj 2 



Gryphaea incurva Sow 4 



G. cymbium iama?'pfc 12 



Lima pectinoides Soiv mass 



L. punctata «Sot(J 1 



L. gigantea Soiv 3 



Pecten and Lima pectinoides Soiu 2 masses. 



Cheltenham 



Stonehouse 

 Gloucestershire 



Bristol 



Chipping Camden 



Bristol 



England 



Chipping Camden 



Saltford 



Frethern and Bristol 



Chipping Camden 



