•'520 PEOF. E. J. GARWOOD ON THE LOWEE CAEBONIFEEOUS [DeC. I912, 



Athyris-glahristria Zone, the beds rise gradually in this direction, 

 and SO, while the base of the zoue on the Brigsteer-Kendal road lies 

 at a height of about 220 feet above O.D., on the Underbarrow- 

 Kendal road (2| miles farther north) it has risen above the 500-foot 

 contour-line. 



The Miclielinia Zone which crops out at Kettlewell, on the east 

 side of the district, is similar in character to that exposed above 

 Brigsteer, and the beds contain the usual fauna. The Clisio- 

 phyUurii-inultiseptatum Band, with Zajjlireniis enniskilleni , is also 

 present at this locality. 



The Productus corTugato-liemisj)liericus Zone : the 

 'Gastropod Beds occupy the surface over a considerable area in 

 this district. On the west, under Scout Scar, the beds are usually 

 •covered by screes, while the Plum garth Quarries opened in these 

 'beds north-west of Kendal are almost devoid of organic remains, 

 except specimens of Belleroplion and Productus. The large quarries 

 at Kendal Fell have, however, furnished numerous fossils to local 

 collectors, and a rich assemblage is preserved in the Kendal Museum. 

 The most interesting feature of this collection is the great number 

 of species of mollusca and the large size which many of the gastro- 

 pods and cephalopods attained, recalling Mr. Douglas's description 

 of a similar rich molluscan fauna from the limestone of County 

 Clare, which, however, belongs to a lower horizon.^ A list of this 

 collection is given in the Geological Survey Memoir on the Kendal 

 District, 2nd ed. (1888) table iv, pp. 85-88. Some of the species 

 in this list are, however, incorrectly named. 



The Cyrtina- carbon aria Sub- zone is well developed, 

 especially on the east side, where the beds are exposed in the upper 

 portion of the old Kettlewell Quarry." 



The Nematophyllum-minus Sub-zone forms the greater 

 part of the high ground, from the edge of Scout Scar and Cunswick 

 iScar to the summit of the Kettlewell Quarries. It was doubtless 

 from this locality that M'Coy obtained his type-specimen of the 

 index-fossil now preserved in the Sedgwick Museum at Cambridge. 

 Masses of this coral occur in the upper layers of the white lime- 

 stone on Scout Scar ; on Cunswick Scar above Kettlewell ; and 

 in the neighbourhood of ' The Heights.' 



The Bryozoa Band, w^hich lies at the summit of this zone in 

 the Shap and Bavenstonedale Districts, has not been noticed here ; 

 this maj' be due to the denudation of the highest beds of the zone, 

 •but it is possible that the band has died out in this district, as it is 

 mo where met with farther west. 



' Q. J. G. S. vol. Ixv (1909) p, 551. 



- I'lie specimens figured by M'Ooy in the ' Brit. Pal. Fossils ' 1855, pi. iii d, 

 figs. 12-18, under the name ' Pcniamerus carbonarlus,' and by Davidson ' Brit. 

 Foss. Brachiopoda' Monogr. Palaeont. Soc. vol. ii (1858-63) pi. xv, figs. 7-12, 

 were obtained from this locality. 



