CO FOSSIL ESTHERLE. 



have detected it at Burge-hill and Inkberrow, in Worcestershire, and at Shrewky 

 Common, in Warwickshire, where it is very abundant in some of the sandstone 

 beds." 



One of the specimens of EstJieria minuta from Shrewley is fignred in PL II, fias. 

 5 — 7 ; see page 57. 



The Rev. P. B. Brodie, F.G.S., in his paper '•' On the Upper Keuper Sandstone 

 (inckided in the New Red Marl) of Warwickshire," ' Quart. Journ. GeoL,' 1856, vol xii, 

 . p. 374, &c., observes that — 



" The slabs with Posidonia occur plentifully along the banks of the canal near Shrewlev, 

 in green marls and sandstone, a few feet above the Inferior Red Marl ; but the specimens 

 are best preserved in the sandstone ;" and he gives the following section seen on the banks 

 of the canal at Shrewley in descending order : 



1. Green marl 3 or 4 inches. 



2. Beds of grey and light-coloured fine-grained sandstone, divided by- 



marl; with Posidonia minuta and ripple-marks. In the middle oc- 

 curs a coarse gritty sandstone, with white specks (less coarse than at 

 Pendock, in Worcestershire), which contains bones, teeth, and spines 

 0? Acrodus {ov LopJiodus) 1 foot 9 „ 



3. Green marl ,, 2^ „ 



4. More finely grained sandstone, more or less ripple-marked ; with foot- 



steps of Za5?/n'wMo<?o?i 2 feet 3 ,, 



5. Green marl ,, 2 „ 



C. Hard workable sandstone (" bottom-bed "), the only good building-stone 



of the locality ; with imperfect casts of Po5/</o?2«a 3 ,, 6 „ 



7. Thin beds of sandstone, divided by green marls ; -with remains of plants 



{Voltzia, Calarnites (?), and Fucoides {?}. Ihis is best seen at 



Rowington 10 „ „ 



8. Red marl. 



In 1857 Mr. Brodie gave a notice (' Quart. Joum. Geol. Soc.,' vol. xiv, p. 165) of the 

 discovery of a fossil fish {Paleeoniscus superstes, Egerton) in the Upper Keuper Sandstone 

 at Rowington, Warwickshire, about twelve miles from Shrewley Common ; and as there is 

 some interest belonging to the association of fish-remains with Estheria in the section at 

 Rowington, which is comparable with that above given, and as Mr. Brodie has favoio'ed 

 me with a note on the occurrence of EsthericB in these beds, I here subjoin a description 

 of the Rowington Section. 



" A.bout half Avay down the hill on Avhich the chiu-ch (Rowington) stands are certain 

 kinds of brashy stone, more or less sandy and marly, and having a very irregular fracture ; 

 in these I discovered the new fish which Sir Philip Egerton has described above under 

 the name of Palaojiiscus superstes. The vicinity of the vicarage affords the folloAving 

 section in descending order : 



