CO FOSSIL ESTHERLE. 



have detected it at Burge-hill and Inkberrow, in Worcestershire, and at Shrewley 

 Common, in* Warwickshire, where it is very abundant in some of the sandstone 

 beds." 



One of the specimens of Estheria minuta from Shrewley is figured in PI. II, fio-s. 

 5 — 7 ; see page 57. 



The Rev. P. B. Brodie, E.G.S., in his paper " On the Upper Keuper Sandstone 

 (included in the New Red Marl) of Warwickshire," ' Quart. Journ. Geol.,' 1850, vol. xii, 

 p. 374, &c, observes that — 



" The slabs with Posidonia occur plentifully along the banks of the canal near Shrewley, 

 in green marls and sandstone, a few feet above the Inferior Red Marl ; but the specimens 

 are best preserved in the sandstone;" and he gives the following section seen on the banks 

 of the canal at Shrewley in descending order : 



1. Green marl 3 or 4 inches. 



2. Beds of grey and light-coloured fine-grained sandstone, divided hy 



marl ; with Posidonia minuta and ripple-marks. In the middle oc- 

 curs a coarse gritty sandstone, with white specks (less coarse than at 

 Pendock, in Worcestershire), which contains bones, teeth, and spines 

 of Acrodus (or Lophodus) 1 foot 9 „ 



3. Green marl ,, 2*- „ 



4. More finely grained sandstone, more or less ripple-marked ; with foot- 



steps of Labyrinthodon 2 feet 3 ,, 



5. Green marl ,, 2 „ 



0". Hard workable sandstone (" bottom-bed "), the only good building-stone 



of the locality ; with imperfect casts of Posidonia 3 ,, 6 „ 



7- Thin beds of sandstone, divided by green marls ; with remains of plants 

 (Voltzia, Catamites (?), and Fucoides (?). This is best seen at 



Rowington 10 ,, ,, 



8. Red marl. 



In 1857 Mr. Brodie gave a notice (' Quart. Journ. Geol. Soc.,' vol. xiv, p. 105) of the 

 discovery of a fossil fish (Palaoniscits superstes, Egerton) in the Upper Keuper Sandstone 

 at Rowington, Warwickshire, about twelve miles from Shrewley Common ; and as there is 

 some interest belonging to the association of fish-remains with Estheria in the section at 

 Rowington, which is comparable with that above given, and as Mr. Brodie has favoured 

 me with a note on the occurrence of Estheria in these beds, I here subjoin a description 

 of the Rowington Section. 



" About half way down the hill on which the church (Rowington) stands are certain 

 kinds of brashy stone, more or less sandy and marly, and having a very irregular fracture ; 

 in these I discovered the new fish which Sir Philip Egerton has described above under 

 the name of Palaoniscits sttpcrstes. The vicinity of the vicarage affords the following 

 section in descending order : 



