92 BRITISH BELEMNITES. 
1863), quotes Oppel for a species named &. Wright after the eminent paleontologist of 
Cheltenham, and assigns it to the upper part of the Upper Lias, viz. Toarcian I, d. 
I have not been fortunate enough to obtain a specimen. He also gives a new name 
(B. neglectus) toa specimen said by Oppel to be from the Belemnite bed of Lyme Regis, 
which is figured by (Quenstedt, ‘Jura,’ pl. xli, fig. 20) as from the lowest bed of 
Inferior Oolite. If it be “ wnicanaliculate,” as Mayer says, it is probably of an Oolitic 
type, or from the Bridport Sands. 
It will be requisite, no doubt, hereafter to construct a Supplement to these pages, and 
my own collection contains a few specimens worthy of notice if more, and more illustrative, 
specimens, can be obtained. 
Meantime it appears to me useful to present a summary of the distribution of well- 
recognised forms in the Yorkshire Lias, every bed of which between Saltburn and Saltwick 
I have in late years carefully examined and for the most part exactly measured, and searched 
many times for Belemnites and other fossils. The general result of this labour appears 
in the Tabular View,* p. 93, which is reduced from a larger drawing, beginning with 
Gryphitic beds above the Lima beds and Ammonites Bucklandi, and ending below the 
Dogger, and is not meant to include the transition sandy beds, if they may be so termed, 
at Blue Wick. 
My friend Mr. Simpson has already composed a similar and more minute description 
of the beds between Saltwick and the Peak, so that the two may be compared, and the 
reference of every fossil on the Lias Cliffs of the Yorkshire coast to its real repository 
become by degrees quite complete. Far clearer on this magnificent coast than even on 
that of Dorset is the distribution of the fossils in the Middle and Upper Lias, and capable 
of often-repeated proof; but in respect of the lowest Lias, it is not in the Yorkshire 
cliffs that it must be studied. Nor do I know of more than one example of Rheetic beds 
in the county, and that is now concealed under the grassy surface of a deep cutting at 
Barton, on the North-Eastern Railway. It was exposed, many years since, in an 
anticlinal resting on the Keuper Marls, and I examined it well, but found few fossils in it. 
* In the Table, p. 93, nodules are marked by interrupted bands. Two Belemnite-beds are marked by 
7th, 16s; 
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