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BRITISH BELEMNITES. 



Bed Chalk 

 Speetox Clay 



Speetox Clay and Kimmeridge Clay 

 Couallixe Oolite 



Oxford Clay 

 Kelloways Bock 



Bath Oolite 



Uppek Lias 



B. Listen, Phil.. 



— minimus, Sow. 



— jaculum, Phil. 



— lateralis, Phil. 



— abbreviatus, Mill. 



— Blainvillii, Voltz. 



— gracilis, Phil. 



— anomalus, Phil. 



— tornatilis, Phil. 



— quinquesulcatus, Bl. 



— Aalensis, Voltz. 



— tubularis, Y. and Z>. 



— compressus, Voltz not Sow. 



— trifidus, Voltz. 



— subaduneatus, Voltz. 



— paxillosus, Voltz. 



Mr. Samuel Woodward recorded in his ' Synoptical Table of British Organic Remains' 

 (1S30) the following species : 



Chalk 

 )) 



Chalk Marl. 

 Gault 



Oxford Clay 

 Stoxesfield Slate 

 Great Oolite 

 Ixfeiuor Oolite 



Lias 



B. granulatus, Sow. 



— electrinus, Mill. 



— lanceolatus, Sow. 



— Listeri, ISlaiit. 



— attenuatus, Sow. 



— minimus, Sow. 



— gracilis, Phil. 



— fusiformis, Park. 



— compressus, Soiv. 



— sulcatus. Mill. 



— ellipticus, Mill. 



■ — abbreviatus, Mill. 



— tubularis, Y. and B. 



— elongatus, Mill. 



— aduncatus, Mill. 



— longissimus, Mill. 



— pislilliformis, Sow. 



— acutus, Mill. 



— penicillatus, Sow. 



Dr. Buckland's researches in Belemnites began in 1829. 1 In his ' Bridgewater Treatise 

 on Geology and Mineralogy,' 1836, he gave many interesting drawings of Belemnites and 

 other fossil Cephalopoda, and added useful comparative diagrams of recent decapod and 

 octopod cuttles. He gives many examples of " ink-bags of Belemno-sepia, and their 



1 'Geol. Soc. Proc.,' i, 9C; and ' Trans.,* iii, 217 



