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green, white, or even yellow. The rocks pass gradually from marls 

 into sandstones, in which fine detrital mica is abundant. Rain-prints, 

 sun-cracks, ripple-marks, and animal footprints are not uncommon. 

 This evidence, together with the false bedding of the sandstones 

 and the lenticular nature of the marls, suggests that these rocks 

 are shallow-water deposits. The Kenilworth Sandstones are 

 lithologically very similar to the underlying Keele Beds ; but the 

 characteristic Sjnrorbis Limestones of the latter are completely 

 absent. 



The general direction of dip is south-westerly: the formation may 

 thus be expected to attain its greatest thickness near Warwick. 

 But the prevalent false bedding renders it almost impossible to 

 determine the true dip ; and, in the absence of deep borings in 

 the south, any estimate of the thickness of these rocks must be 

 merely approximate. Possils are extremely rare in the Permian : 

 the following list includes all the known records : — 



List of Fossils prom the Peemia^s^ of Waewickshire. 



Species, 



Locality. 



Reference. 



Horizon. 



1 



i Breea entassoides^ 



Meriden. 



Ramsay (55) p. 198 and 



Permian. 







footnote ; also ' Geol. 





i 





Warwick. Coalfield ' 









Mem. Geol. Surv. p. 32. 





Caulerpites ohlonga ^ 



Merideu. 



Ihid. p. 32. 



Permian. 



Caulerpites biangularis^. 



Meriden. 



Ibid. p. 32. 



Permian. 



Caulerpites triangularis^ 



Meriden. 



Ibid. p. 32. 



Permian. 



Calamites sp. ^ 



Whitmore-Park Bor- 

 ing, 120 feet deep. 







Permian. 





Calamites sp. ^ 



Exhall. 



Ibid. p. 31. 



(?) Permian. 



Lepidodendron 2 sp 



Exhall. 



Ibid. p. 31. 



(?) Permian. 



' Sternhergia 



Exhall. 



Phillips, ' Geol. of Oxford ' 



p. 96. 

 Proc. Geol. Soc. vol. ii. 



(?) Permian. 

 Permian. 



; Dadoxylon'^-^ 



Allesley. 





no. 48, p. 439 (1837). 





: Wal cilia hypnoides 



' Trias ' of Warwick- 



Morris (54) p. 24. 



(?) Permian. 



(Brongn.). 



shire. 



[This record may perhaps 

 refer to a Permian fossil, 

 but no locality is given.] 





i Walchia imbricata^ 



Messrs. Webster's 





Permian. 



\ Schimper, & Walchia sp. 



clay-pit, Stoney- 

 Stanton Road, Co- 

 ventry. 







StropJialosia-? 



Exhall. 



•' Geol. Warwick. Coalfield ' 



Permian. 







pp. 31-32. 





Dasyceps hticklandi ^ 



Near Kenilworth. 



Ibid. pp. 52-56. 



Permian. 



; (Lloyd). 









Oxyodon hritannieus'^ 



Near Kenilworth. 



F. von Huene, Centralbl. 



Permian. 



! F. von Huene. 





f. Min. 1908, pp. 431-4. 





1 Maxillary bone of a tish ... 



^ mile north-west of 



Trans. Geol. Soc. ser. 2, 



(?) Permian. 



I 



Coventry, 



vol. V, 1840, pi. xxviii, 

 fig. 5, & p. 348. 





Footprints ^ 



Cherry Orchard Clay- 

 pit, Kenilworth. 





Permian. 









' Footprints-^ 



Coundon-Road Clay- 

 pit, Coventry. 





Permian. 









1 Fossils marked thus are in the Warwick Museum. 



- These fossils are in the Museum of Practical Geology, Jermyn Street, London : 

 the plants being Nos. 1610, 1642-4^1, 1650. and 1653. 



•* In the author's collection, Sedgwick Museum, Cambridge. 



