26 FOSSIL REPTILIA OF THE WEALDEN FORMATIONS. 



the Cornbrash and Bath Oolite immediately above that slate, and in Oolites beneath it. 

 A tooth of a Megalosaurus has been kindly communicated to me by Mr. Woodward, 

 of the British Museum, which was found in the Inferior Oolite of Selsly Hill, Glouces- 

 tershire, which is separated from the Stonesfield Oolite by superimposed deposits 

 of Fullers' earth one hundred feet in vertical extent. Vertebrae and parts of long bones 

 of the Megalosaurus have been found in the Inferior Oolite at Kingham, near Chipping- 

 Norton, and at Broadwell, near Merke-in-the- Marsh, Gloucestershire. But the forma- 

 tion in which the remains of the Megalosaur occur, in quantity only inferior to those 

 in the Stonesfield slate, is the Wealden strata. Dr. Mantell discovered in the ferrugi- 

 nous clay of the Forest of Tilgate a fine vertebra, and a portion of the femur of the 

 Megalosaurus, 22 inches in circumference. Some fragments of the metacarpus and 

 metatarsus from this locality, were thicker than those of a large hippopotamus. Many 

 teeth, of the same form as those found by Dr. Buckland, at Stonesfield, have been 

 obtained from Wealden strata. Mr. Holmes, surgeon, at Horsham, possesses a good 

 caudal vertebra, and some other parts of the Megalosaurus from the furruginous sand 

 near Cuckfield, in Sussex. The magnificent specimen of dorsal vertebrae, T. xix, 

 loc. cit., was discovered by Mr. Beckles, f.g.s., in the Wealden formation near Battle. 

 Remains of the Megalosaurus occur in the Purbeck Limestone at Swanage Bay. In 

 some of the private collections in the town in Malton, Yorkshire, are teeth, unques- 

 tionably belonging to the same species as the Stonesfield Megalosaurus, from the 

 Oolite in the neighbourhood of that town. 



