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than any remains of fish previously detected in that formation) ren- 

 ders it desirable to refer to the position of the stratum from which it 

 was obtained. The superior beds of sandstone worked occasionally 

 at Shrewley, are not quarried at Rowington, though several thick 

 bands of brown sandstone are seen on the road to Warwick in that 

 village, and were formerly exposed in an old quarry, now filled up, 

 in the same parish. About half-way down the hill on which the 

 church stands, are certain beds of brashy stone, more or less sandy 

 and marly, and having a very irregular fracture ; in these I dis- 

 covered the new species of fish which Sir Philip Egerton has de- 

 scribed above under the name of Palceoniscus superstes. 



The vicinity of the vicarage affords the following section in 

 descending order : — 



ft. in. 



Thin beds of sandy stone in green marl ; brashy bed ..20 



Sandstone "1 



Green marl > Oil 



Sandstone J 



Green marly stone, with so-called fucoid impressions . 6 



Several beds of ripple-marked sandstone, thickness not 

 exposed. 



At a somewhat lower level on the canal-bank, at the west end, 

 the section is continued as follows : — 



ft. in. 

 Beds of rubbly sandstone and marl, much broken ; ) <- ~ 



with remains of plants * j 



Grey sandstone, divided by green marls, full of fucoids ? 1 to 1 2 



Hard sandstone 4 



Green shaly marl (few inches). 

 Red marl. 



Small teeth and spines of Acrodus have long been known in the 

 Keuper in different parts of England, but this is, I believe, the first 

 instance of the occurrence of a fish in anything like a perfect state ; 

 and no doubt it would have been entire, if the stone had not been 

 unfortunately broken. The bed is so seldom worked, that there is 

 little chance of examining any quantity of it ; but, judging from the 

 past, such specimens must be extremely rare. 



P.S. — Not long after the discovery of the specimen above described, 

 another and entire fossil fish was obtained from the lowest bed of 

 the Keuper sandstone here. I regret that the possessor of the spe- 

 cimen is unwilling to allow it to go out of his hands, and that, in 

 consequence, it has not been available for scientific description. — 

 Feb. 20, 1858. P. B. B. 



* In addition to the plants referred to in my last paper in the Geol. Journ. vol. 

 xii. Part IV. No. 48, p. 374, from the lower beds of the Upper Keuper, I have ob- 

 tained a slab of sandstone covered with vegetable impressions, and amongst them 

 are several which appear to be the calyces of some flowering plant. 



