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stone contains Cucullcea in abundance, and the shales yield large 

 numbers of plant-stems. 



7th. Pilton beds. Slates of a purplish or greyish tint. Several 

 rolls and contortions, which materially diminish their apparent thick- 

 ness, may be observed near Braunton, at Pilton, and near Goodleigh 

 Church. 



Throughout nearly every part this bed contains fossils in abund- 

 ance, especially Brachiopods, crinoidal stems, and a small crustacean 

 (Phacojos latifrons). Thin intermittent bands of limestone are com- 

 mon, traversing the slate ; they also are highly fossiliferous, but de- 

 compose rapidly on exposure to the action of the weather. 



The following quarries, situated in the Pilton beds, are amongst 

 the best localities for fossils : — 



I Top Orchard. 

 PiUand. 

 Bradiford (ceased to be worked). 

 Goodleigh (ceased to be worked). 

 Croyde Bay*. 

 Braunton. 



3. Table of the Disteibutio]S' of Species theoughout the vaeious 



POSSILIFEEOUS GeOUPS. 



In the following Table I have endeavoured, by selecting those 

 quarries situated at some distance from each other, but which are 

 worked in the same group, to show the relative distribution of certain 

 species. The occurrence of each fossil which has come under my 

 own personal observation is marked with an asterisk, thus (*), whilst 

 those which I have inserted upon the authority of other writers are 

 distinguished by a small cross (f). 



* Croyde Bay, which is close to Baggy Point, is situated in the slates of 

 Pilton, and lies south of the Cucullsea-bed. Before these two groups were 

 divided, these localities were looked upon as almost synonymous; and hence we 

 find that in the ' Palaeozoic Fossils ' several species are described as occurring 

 at Baggy which were found in the slates and limestones of the Pilton groups 

 in the adjoining cliffs of Croyde Bay. As most of these fossils are expressly 

 stated by Prof. Phillips to have been found in limestone, I have put them in my 

 list as occurring at Croyde, since they clearly could not have been found amongst 

 the sandstones of the Cucullsea-bed, which form, as has been before mentioned, 

 the Point of Baggy. 



