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On the south side of Portree Harbour, Isle of Skye, Professor Tate found the Spinatus- 

 beds to consist of a hard, calcareous, yellowish-grey, thick-bedded sandstone, about 

 40 feet in thickness ; the uppermost 5 feet of the Rock-bed is more bluish and calcareous, 

 and appears to form the basement-bed of the Upper Lias ; from these strata he collected 

 the following Molluscan fauna. 



Fossils from, the Spinatus-zone at Portree, Skye. 



Amaltheus spinatus, Brug. 



— margaritatus, Montf. 

 Belemnites paxillosus, Schloth. 



— elongatus, Sow. 



— clavatus, Blainv. 



— micrastylus, Phil. 

 Cryptsenia expansa, Sow. 

 Pecten sequivalvis, Sow. 

 Lima Hermanni, Foltz. 

 Plicatula spinosa, Sow. 

 Avicula novemcostse, Brown. 

 Gresslya Seebachii, Brauns. 



Astarte Amalthei, Quenst. 

 Terebratula punctata, Sow. 

 Rhynchonella acuta, Sow. 

 Pecten liassinus, Tate. 

 Ostrea cymbium, Lamk. 

 Mytilus scalprum, Sow. 

 Cypricardia cucuUata, Munst. 

 Waldheimia resupinata. Sow. 

 Rhynchonella tetraedra, Sow. 

 Pentacrinus Amalthei, Quenst. 

 Ditrypa quinquesulcata, Miinst. 



Plesiosaurus, sp. 



Pal(2ontology of the Zone of Amaltheus spinatus. 



Vertebrata. 



I Ichthyosaurus, sp. 



Amaltheus spinatus, Brug. 



— Engclhardti, (VOrh'ig. 



— margaritatus, Mont. 

 Phylloceras zetes, cCOrbig. 

 Stephanoceras Ilolandrei, (VOrhig. 

 Belemnites clavatus, Blainv. 



— apicicurvatus, Blainv. 



— vulgaris. Yoking 8)- Bird, 



Cerithium acriculum, Tate. 



— liassicum, Moore. 

 Chemnitzia Blainvillei, Miinst. 



— semitecta, Tate. 



— nuda, 3[iinst. 

 Cryptsenia consobrina, Tate. 



— expansa, Sow. 



Cephalopoda. 



Belemnites cylindricus. Simp. 



— paxillosus, Scklot. 



— longiformis, Blake. 



— compressus, Stahl. 



— brcviformis, Voltz. 



— rudis, Phil. 



— microstylus, Phil. 



Gasteropoda. 



Dentalium elongatum, Miinst. 

 Eucyclus conspcrsus, Tate. 



— undulatus, Phil. 



— cingendus, Tate. 



— nireus, «?' Orbig. 

 Nerita alternans, Tate. 

 Pitonnillus turbinatus, Tate. 



