VERTEBRATE REMAINS IN THE TRIAS OF DEVONSHIRE. PASTE 
15. On further Discovrries of VERTEBRATE Remains in the TRrassic 
Strata of the Sourn Coast of DrvonsuHire, between BupLEIGH 
Satrerton and Sipmoutu. By A. T. Murcatrs, Esq., F.G.S. 
(Read January 9, 1884.) 
My special object in making this communication is to bring under 
the notice of the Society some further vertebrate remains which 
have been obtained by my friend H. J. Carter, Esq., F.R.S., of Bud- 
leigh Salterton, from the Triassic strata of the south coast of Devon, 
between Budleigh Salterton and Sidmouth, and are now deposited 
in the Geological Department of the British Museum of Natural 
History, at South Kensington. 
In order to fix the precise geographical and stratigraphical position 
of these extremely rare and interesting specimens, I propose to com- 
mence with a brief reference to the coast section (fig. 1, p. 258). 
The Upper Sandstones (following Mr. Usshev’s classification of the 
Triassic rocks of Devonshire), in which the before-mentioned fossils 
were found, crop out in the cliffs at Budleigh Salterton. Near their 
outcrop the beds are coarse and conglomeratic, but they become less 
and less so as we follow them along the dip towards Sidmouth, 
which lies about six miles to the east. 
About two miles before Sidmouth is reached, the cliffs suddenly 
rise to the height of 513 feet at a spot called “‘ High Peake Hill,” 
where the sandstones are capped by the Upper Marls (Triassic), the 
Upper Greensand, and supracretaceous gravel. ‘The section at this 
point is approximately as follows :— 
feet. 
Supracretaceous Gravel and Upper Greensand .. 113 
Te Wipers Marist yo ss! Rute. oredr: 200 
ae Wopemicamdstones tc. Fs see 200 
513 
On the Budleigh Salterton or western side of High Peake Hill is 
a steep slope leading to a stile on the brink of the cliff, whence 
a stratum in the sandstones, somewhat lighter in colour than the 
rest, may be seen dipping to the east. This stratum is very near 
the junction with the Upper Marls, and I am informed is more dis- 
_tinctly observable from a short distance out at sea. 
On the beach, and immediately under the stile, is a talus consist- 
ing of fragments of sandstone of all sizes, varying from blocks of 
many tons in weight to mere sand-grains. In composition and colour 
these fragments are, in the opinion of Mr. Carter and myself, iden- 
tical with the lighter-coloured stratum before referred to ; and upon 
such grounds only are they assumed to be part of it. From this 
talus, Dr. Johnston-Lavis, F.G.8., procured, in the autumn of 
1875, the remains called by Prof. Seeley Labyrinthodon Lavisi (see 
Q.J.G.S. vol. xxxii. page 274). In the following year Mr. Carter 
Q.J.G.8. No. 158. g 
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