SECTIONS WITH AMMONITES. 



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Ft. In. 



12. G-rey shelly sandstone, some few brown oolite specks. Oramm. striatulum, 



Haugia occidentalis . 



13. Yellow sands. Oramm. striatulum towards the top 



14. Grey sandstone. Gramm. striatulum 



15. Greyish sands 



16. Grey sandstone. Gramm. striatulum 



17. Yellowish sands 



18. Yellow sandy stone. Gramm. toarcense-striatwlum (PI. xXTili, fig. 14) 



19. Yellow sands, only a few inches visible. 



There are about 15 — 20 feet more of sands before the clay is reached ; but as these 

 are not exposed it cannot be said if they contain any hard bands with Ammonites 



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XII, Section at Lyncomhe cutting {about one mile south of Bath). 



of Midford Sands. 



Typical section 



Parkinsoni-zone. 1. 



Midford Sands, upper o 

 part uncertain, lower 

 part Dispansum-beia. 



Striatulum- 3. 

 beds. 



Commune- 

 zone. 



Falciferum- 5. 

 zone. 



6. 



7. 



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 about 100 



Yellowish oolite limestone. Terehr. globata, Rhynch. spinosa, &c 

 Yellow micaceous sands containing numerous lines of sandburrs 



Gramm. fallaciosum was obtained from fallen sandburrs. 

 Yellowish-brown stone with very numerous lighter-coloured oolitic grains, 



which fall out and leave the stone pitted. Gramm. striatulum, Gramm. 



toarcense ....... 



This bed is cemented on to : 



Yellowish stone with the oolite grains less numerous, and therefore it 



appears of a closer texture. Dactyl. Solandrei, Dactyl, crassum, Mild. 



bifrons, Waldheimia Lycetti, Rhynch. sp. ... 



This bed is firmly cemented to : 

 Close-grained, soapy-feeling, greyish-blue stone, without any trace of 



grains. Harp, falciferum . . . . . 



Greyish-blue clay . . . . . , . 



Close-grained, greyish, mottled stone .... 



Greyish-blue clay. 



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 6 



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XIII. Section exhibited in the road at White Lacldngton, near Ilminster, Somerset. 



Dumortieria- 

 beds. 



Dispansum- 

 beds. 



Striatulum- 

 beds ? 



1. Yellow micaceous sands (the base of the well-known Yeovil Sands) be- 



coming browner towards the bottom . . 



2. Arenaceous brown and light yellow marl-bed, somewhat decomposed ; 



occasional pockets of bluish-grey argillaceous marl. Lytoc. jurense, 

 Lytoc. Germaini ?, Lytoc. ruhescens ?, Pelecoceras serrodens, Samm. 

 insigne, Amm. discoides, iragment like Gramm. striatulum, Gramm. 

 dispansum (fragment) ..... 



3. Yellowish-grey soft stone, somewhat sticky, with soapy feel. Amm. dis- 



coides, Ilamm. insigne ..... 



4. Bluish-grey tenacious clay with occasional nodules. No fossils found 



'- Compare Winwood, ' Proc. Bath Soc.,' vol. iii. No. 2, 1875. 

 ■^ Compare with Section VIII, p. 47. 



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