ESTHERIA MINUTA. 



71 



In his work on ' Fossil Insects,' at page 82, Mr. Brodie also notices the existence of 

 a band of white stone with " Cyclas ?" in the cliff at Aust Passage, on the Severn, about 

 twelve miles from Bristol, and this he refers to the Estherian zone of Westbury and 

 Wainlode, or what he terms the " Cypris-bed." And at page 72 Mr. Brodie mentions 

 that Mr. H. E. Strickland fomid " the yellow Cypris-limestone with Cyclas," at Dunham- 

 stead, on the line of the Gloucester and Birmingham Railway, near the Droitwich station.^ 



Other sections of the Rhaetic beds in Warwickshire and elsewhere are described by 

 Dr. T, Wright in his paper ' On the Lower Lias and Bone-bed,' already referred to. 

 Thus, at pages 386 and 387 we find the following section of Messrs. Greaves and Kirshaw's 

 quarry at Wilmcote, near Stratford-on-Avon: 



Beds Nos. 1 — 20. — Clays, shales, and limestones, belonging to the zone characterised by Ammonites 



planorbis. 

 'No. ft. in. 



pq 



S3 



*E 



03 . 

 W { 



21. Dark, hard, stony clay 7 



22. Dark-blue limestone and clay 9 



23. Dark clay, laminated 1 



24. Dark greyish limestone A^ 



25. Hard crystalline limestone. 



26. Hard crystalline limestone. 



27. Hard crystalline limestone. 



1 2 





28. Hard, dark, slaty shale 1 



29. Hard shelly limestone 1 



30. Green clunchy shale 3 



^31. Fine-grained greenish marl 3 



32. Blackish shales, not laminated 12 6 



33. Close, laminated, micaceous, green- 



ish-black shale 1 



34. Closely laminated shale 6 



35. Laminated shale 1 6 



" Ruskins." Plesiosaurus megacephalus, Stutchb. 



(Warwick Museum). 

 "Blue Blocks" or "Fire-stone blocks." 



"Pendle and Jackets." Ostrea liasica, Modiola 



minima, and Cardium. 

 Fire-stone, top bed. 

 Fire-stone, middle bed. 

 Fire-stone, bottom-bed. 



( Bottom of the quarry ; shaft sunk be- 



i^ low this. 



" The Guinea-bed." Avicula, Lima, Ostrea, &c. 

 Estheria-bed. E&theria minuta in clusters.^ 



Upper PuUastra-bed. Avicula contorta, Pullastra 

 arenicola, and Cardium. 



36. Hard, close shale, not laminated ... 2 



37. Dark clay and shale 



38. Strong laminated clay, with septaria 1 



39. Clay, with shells 1 



40. Black, hard, laminated clay 4 



41. Pyritic stone, with shells 1 



42. Black clunchy clay 8 



-43. Light, soft, brown clay 



1 See also 'Proceed. Geol. Soc.,' vol. iii, pp. 315, 587, 732. 



2 Mr. Kirshaw has favoured me with a specimen from this Estheria-bed. It is part of a nodule of 

 grey compact limestone, traversed by a band of Estherice, both well preserved and in fragments. 



6 

 6 

 3 



8 Pecten-bed. Pecten Valoniensis. 



Lower Pullastra-bed. 



