1857-] BUCKMAN OOLITES. 117 



Section of the Hare Bushes Quarry. 



ft. in. 

 a. Blue slabs, on the hill over the quarry. (Forest 

 Marble.) 



1. Flaggy oolite 2 6 



2. Band of clay and marl 1 



3. Flaggy oolite 2 6 



4. Marl, full of Ostrea Jurassica? 9 



5. Flaggy oolite, as No. 3 1 



6. Marl 8 



7. Oolitic freestone, white, with a fine grain, cleaving 



obliquely in the upper beds ; to bottom of quarry 20 



It should be remarked, that these upper bands are very unfossili- 

 ferous ; but, when fossils occur, they are mostly those of the Bradford 

 Clay, such as Terebratula digona and T. cardium ; and even these have 

 not as yet been found at the Hare Bushes ; indeed it is curious to 

 observe, that to the north and east of Cirencester, indications of the 

 fauna of the Bradford Clay are rare, if not absent ; while the same 

 horizon to the west and south of that place will present beds always 

 charged with some of the Bradford Clay species, which, in as far as 

 this locality is concerned, are very persistent as to their position. 



As respects the fauna of the Bradford Clay, it will be found of a 

 most distinct and interesting character. A section, of not quite 8 feet 

 in thickness, and exposing but a small extent of surface, yielded, 

 according to Mr. S. P. Woodward (who made a beautiful collection 

 from this bed), a large list of fossils, of which he has given the 

 following census : — 



General view of the Bradford Clay Fossils of Cirencester, 

 by S. P. Woodward, Esq., F.G.S. 



Radiata species 29 



Corals 15 



Crinoids 3 



Starfishes ] 



Sea-urchins 10 



Articulata 8 



Annelides 7 



Crustaceans 1 



Mollusca 42 



Conchifera 23 



Brachiopoda 10 



Gasteropoda 8 



Cephalopoda 1 * 



Vertebrata 26 



Fishes 19 



Reptiles 7 



Total of species. ... 105 



* Since the above list was made out, a single individual of a new Ammonite 

 was found by John Coleman, Esq., now Professor of Agriculture, and Farm Ma- 

 nager, Royal Agricultural College. 



