OF RH^TIC BEDS IN LEICESTERSHIRE. 



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Fig. i. — Vertical Section of Rhcetic Beds, Spinney Hills, near 

 Leicester. 



Lithological character. Thickness, 

 ft. 



10. Soil and drift 



9. Nodular band of lime 

 stone 



Light-coloured shales 

 with sandy partings 



7. Dark shales, with sandy I. l Q 

 partings S 



6. Finely-laminated black £.2 

 shales 



6. Sandstone ° 1 



4. Black shales, coarsely { 2 6 

 laminated \ 



3. Bone-bed ° 3 



3. Light buff sandy marls 

 with hard courses 

 bluish nodules 

 lower part 



1. Red and blue Upper I 10 

 Keuper Marls ) 



Fossils &c. 



Flint implements (Neolithic), 

 Roman pottery, &c. 



Estheria (casts), Avicula con- 

 torta. 



Modiola minima, 

 Avicula contorta, 

 Cardium rhtxlicvm. 



Opkiolepis Damesii, 

 Pholidophorus Mottiana. 



Avicula contorta, 

 Cardium rhceticum. 



Axinufi-bed. Worm-tracks. 

 ( Qyrolepis, Saurichthys api- 

 calis, Hybodus minor, 

 Ceratodu*, Xemncanthut 

 monWfer, Ichthyosaurus, 

 PI siosaurus, Coprolites, 

 Sargodon tomicus, Acro- 

 dus, A.rinu8 elongafus, A. 

 depressus. 



Fi>h-soaleB, Selenite, Salt 

 pseudomorphs. 



Selenite, 

 ' 8alt pseudomorphs. 



