ESTHER! A MINUTA. 01 



Feet. Inches. 



Thin beds of sandy stone, 1 in green marl ; brashy bed 2 



Sandstone \ 



Green marl > « '* 



Sandstone J 



Green marly stone, with so-called " Fucoid " impressions 



Several beds of ripple-marked sandstone, thickness not exposed. 



" At a somewhat lower level on the canal-bank, at the west end, the section is con- 

 tinued as follows : 



Feet. Inches. 



Beds of rubbly sandstone and marl, much broken ; with remains of Plants 5 



Grey sandstone, divided by green marls, full of Fucoids ? 10 to 12 



Hard sandstone 2 4 



Green shaly marl (a few inches). 

 Red marl." 



Mr. Brodie has also kindly communicated to me by letter (January 1SG1) the following 

 information. 



" As to the Paleeoniscus, I found it in some green marly shales, higher than the shales 

 containing Estheria most abundantly, which usually occur near the base of the Keuper, 

 just above the red marls. I have not seen Estheria in these marls, although they may 

 occur. 



" Estheria occurs abundantly in the thick sandstones at the bottom, as well as in the 

 green marls which underlie it, but more sparingly in the beds above, and in some bands 

 it is not met with at all. The chief repositories of these Crustaceans is in the 

 thick sandstone and the green marls, and sandstone above both. They are best preserved 

 in the marls." 



II. Worcestershire. — In 1S55, the Rev. W. S. Symonds, E.G.S., mentioned the occur- 

 rence of " Posidonomya minvta " in the Keuper Sandstone of Pendock, Worcestershire. 

 The following are the particulars of the section, as published in Mr. Symonds' paper in the 

 ' Quart. Journ. Geol. Soc.,' vol. ix, p. 450 : 



The Keuper Sandstone quarry, from which the fossils here referred to were obtained, 

 is situated in the village of Pendock, about three miles from the base of the south end of 

 the Malverns, and exactly opposite the Holly Bush Pass. These sandstones are quarried 

 to the depth of fourteen or fifteen feet. They dip under the Upper Red Marls and Lower 

 Lias of the Berrow Hill, at an angle of from 5° to 6°. Their position as regards the 

 Bone-bed, at the base of the Lias, cannot be less than from 250 to 300 feet below that 

 deposit. 



1 The Paleeoniscus super stes occurred in this bed. 



2 Another specimen of Paleeoniscus has been found in the lowest bed of the Keuper Sandstone 

 here. 



