X.—A Tabular Arrangement of the Organic Remains of the County of Sussex. 

 By GIDEON MANTELL, Esq, F.G.S. F.R.S. &c. 



[Read June 6th, 1828.] 



Subterranean Forests. 



Peat. 

 (a) Consisting of the remains of frcsli-water 



and marsh plants, trunks and branches of 



trees, hazle-nuts, &c. 

 (6) Consisting of the remains of marine 



plants, confervte, fuci, &c. 

 Blue Clay or Silt. 



Fresh-water. 



Class. 

 Insecta. 

 Conchifera. 

 Mollusca. 



Genus. 

 Phryganea". 

 Cyclas 

 Succinca 

 Planorbis 



Limnea 



Marine. 

 Conchifera. 



Mollusca 



Valvata 

 Paludina 



Lutraria 

 Teliina 

 Cardium 

 Turbo 



Mammalia. Cervus. 



Monodon 



Delphinus 



Species. 



cornea. 



amphibia. 



carinatus. 



corneus. 



stagnalis. 



palustris. 



limosa. 



piscinalis. 



impura. 



compressa. 

 solidula. 

 cdule. 

 Ulvffi. 



Monoceros. 

 Phoccena. 



Alluvial Deposits. 



References *. 

 Geo!. Suss. 288, 289 .. , 



} 



Ibid. 28r-290 



Ibid. 286 



^Ibid. 287''. 



Ibid. 287"= 



Cuv. Oss. Foss. iv. PI. 3. f 10 



.1 



Local it es. 

 Felpham near Bognor. Peven- 

 sey Levels. 



Lewes and Arundel Levels. The 

 Wish near Eastbourne. Lit- 

 tle Horsted, Isfield. 



Pcvcnsey Levels. 



Lewes Levels. 



Ibid. 



Ibid. 



Ibid. 



In sand several feet licneatii the 

 bed of the Ouse, Lewes Le- 

 vels ; probalily in diluvium.'' 



Lewes Levels "^ 



Mouth of the Cucknierc^ Beed- 

 iug Levels.' 



* The fossils which are not in the possession of the author and those not examined by him are marked by an asterisk. 



^ The indusia or cases of the larvas of this genus of insects, with minute shells of the genera Planorbis, Limnea, Si.c. 

 adhering to them, are very abundant in the silt or blue clay. 



■' Still inhabit the rivers and ditches. " Exist in the neighbouring ocean. 



'' The entire skeleton. A species allied to the Canadian, figured by Cuvier. 



^ Portion of the skull. 



^ The skull eighteen inches long ; dug up at a depth of ten feet in blue clay. 



s Human skeletons in cofiins of very rude workmanship have been found in the silt at the depth of several feet; the 

 bones and teeth were of a deep chocolate colour like those of the deer, &c. above mentioned. 

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