ESTHERIA MINUTA. 



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Lower 

 Keuper. 



Bnnter- 



Feet. Feet. 

 (4. Lower Keuper Sandstone (including the water-stones) : 



1. Reddish sandstone, micaceous; with Plant-remains (Ombersley, 

 Bellbronghton) .: ^^ 



2. Cupriferous sandstone, micaceous (Ombersley, Hadley, Bell- 

 bronghton) 200 



3. Thin-bedded sandstone, red and white, micaceous (Drayton, Bell- 



broughton) 20 



4. Thin, greyish, calcareous bands, magnesian (?) (Drayton) 6 



5. Breccia, somewhat calcareous, reddish 1 ( jij^j.tigbury) GO 3 j g 



6. Conglomerate, red J ' 



5. Upper soft red sandstone (Bromesberrow) : 200 



6. Reddish conglomerate, variable in constitution (Kidderminster and Wolverley) 400 



7. Lower soft red sandstone (Habberley and Stourport) 200 



III. Zeiceslershire.— hi a paper on ''The Upper Keuper Sandstone (included in the 

 New Red Marls) and its Eossils at Leicester," 1856, ' Quart. Journ. Geol. Soc.,' vol. xii, 

 p. 369, &c., Mr. James Plant gives the following section of the strata (p. 872), and note 

 on the fossils. Amongst the latter is Estheria minuta. 



a. Upper Keuper Marls, containing beds of gypsum and several thin bands of green marly 

 sandstone, on which are found numerous pseudomorphic salt-crystals ; thickness from 



80 to 120 feet. 

 Upper J J fpjjjjj gj^jjjy shales, with way-boards of green marl ; 25 to 30 feet. 

 Keuper. | ^ rp jjj^.]^ ^g^g ^f goft ^hite sandstone ; 20 to 30 feet. 



d. Thin sandy shales, similar to h ; 35 feet (in laminae, varying from half an inch to four 



inches in thickness). Estherice. 

 Red clay. 



Fossils found in these Upper Keuper beds : 



PZawfs.— Casts of Echinoslachjs ohlongus and Equiseta ; remains of Voltzia and Alffce (?). 



^n«e/ic/«.— Cololites and casts of tubes. 



Estheria minuta, found in the green marls and thin sandy shales of beds d (rare). Found at 



Dane Hill, and Belgrsive, Leicester. 

 FMe«.— Teeth of Placoid fishes; Ichthyodorulites ; fragments of Bones; Coprolites (?) ; in 



beds c and d. 

 Sand-casts of salt-crystals, and traces of Corallines (?) in beds a. 



Mr. Plant has kindly submitted some specimens of the laminated sandstone, with 

 Estheria minuta, for my inspection (see above, p. 58) ; he has also informed me lately 

 tliat he has met with larger numbers in a group, at a cutting two miles from Leicester, in 



the same beds. 



IV. Somersetshire.— Mv. Charles Moore, E.G.S., of Bath, has met with specimens of 

 the Triassic Estheria, near the following places in Somersetshire— North Curry, Taunton, 



