Fossil Remains on the Yorkshire Coast. 



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but they rise into the cliff at the southern point, where we find most of the plants 

 figured by Prof Phillips in his Geology of Yorkshire, and by Lindley and 

 Hutton in their Fossil Flora of Great Britain, as from the "Upper Sandstone 

 and Shale." How far the series continues under the sea to the southward, I 

 have no means of ascertaining. This interesting deposit bears every appear- 

 ance of a local accumulation, resulting from some eddy or current produced by 

 the flow of a river into an estuary. 



The hard granular bed (h) is literally one mass of fragments of Millepora stra- 

 minea, large papilla of a Cidaris, resembling C.fiorigemma, an innumerable 

 quantity of small smooth spines of another species, which I before alluded to 

 as probably connected with C. vagans, a small muricated spine belonging 

 to the same genus, and small columnar joints of Pentacrinus vulgaris. All 

 these are deposited in extremely regular and even layers, which are so close 

 to each other as completely to fill the rock ; the Millepora being found only at 

 the top. This bed, from the quantity of iron contained in it, is extremely hard, 

 and altogether different from any other part of the series. 



If the view I have taken of the sandstones, &c. be correct, it will leave but 

 a very small number of fossils to the true upper sandstone and shale. The 

 plants found in the seam (a) are nearly all new to geologists : the following 

 is a list of such as have already been figured by M. Erongniart, Professor 

 Phillips, and Messrs. Lindley and Button. 



Pecopteris lobifolia. 

 inslgnis. 



undans. 



polypodioides. 



• ■ propinqua. 



Williamsonis. 



acutifolia. 



obtusifolia. 



dentata. 



exilis. 



caespitosa. 



Neuropteris recentior. 



ligata. 



arguta. 



Sphenopteris stipata. 

 Williamsonis. 



Cyclopteris digitata. 

 Glossopteris Phillipsii. 

 Tseniopteris vittata. 



major. 



Solenites Murrayana. 

 Lycopodites Williamsonis. 

 Sphffireda paradoxa. 

 Pterophyllum comptum. 



pecten. 



minus. 



Otopteris cuneata. 



Beanii. 



Ctenis falcata. 

 Cycadites tenuicaulis. 

 Dictyophyllum rugosum. 

 Equisetum laterale. 

 Winged seed. 



Cyclopteris Beanii. 



I have also in my collection several new species, especially of Sphenopteris, 

 (two species,) Glossopteris and Cyclopteris. 



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