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Feet. Feet. 

 ' 4. Lower Keuper Sandstone (including the water-stones) : 



1 . Reddish sandstone, micaceous ; with Plant-remains (Ombersley, 

 Bellbroughton) 20 



2. Cupriferous sandstone, micaceous (Ombersley, Hadley, Bell- 

 Lower I broughton) 200 



Keuper. i 3. Thin-bedded sandstone, red and white, micaceous (Drayton, Bell- 

 broughton) 30 



4. Tbin, greyish, calcareous bands, magnesian (?) (Drayton) 6 



5. Breccia, somewhat calcareous, reddish 1 ,., . , 

 „ „ , , KHartlebury) 60 „,,. 



6. Conglomerate, red J — «Jio 



Banter — 



5. Upper soft red sandstone (Bromesberrow) 200 



G. Reddish conglomerate, variable in constitution (Kidderminster and Wolverley) 400 



7. Lower soft red sandstone (Habberley and Stourport) 200 



III. Leicestershire. — In a paper on " The Upper Keuper Sandstone (included in the 

 New Red Marls) and its Eossils at Leicester," 1856, 'Quart. Journ. Geol. Soc.,' vol. xii, 

 p. 369, &c, Mr. James Plant gives the following section of the strata (p. 372), and note 

 on the fossils. Amongst the latter is Estheria minuta. 



Keuper. 



a. Upper Keuper Marls, containing beds of gypsum and several thin bands of green marly 

 sandstone, on which are found numerous pseudomorphic salt-crystals ; thickness from 

 80 to 120 feet. 

 PP er < b. Thin sandy shales, with way-boards of green marl ; 25 to 30 feet. 



c. Thick beds of soft white sandstone ; 20 to 30 feet. 



d. Thin sandy shales, similar to b ; 35 feet (in laminae, varying from half an inch to four 

 inches in thickness). Estheria. 



Red clay. 



Fossils found in these Upper Keuper beds : 



Plants. — Casts of Echinostachys oblongus and Equiseta ; remains of Voltzia and Algce (?). 



Annelids. — Cololites and casts of tubes. 



Estheria minuta, found in the green mai'ls and thin sandy shales of beds d (rare). Found at 



Dane Hill, and Belgrave, Leicester. 

 Fishes. — Teeth of Placoid fishes ; Ichthyodorulites ; fragments of Bones ; Coprolites (?) ; in 



beds c and d. 

 Sand-casts of salt-crystals, and traces of Corallines (?) in beds a. 



Mr. Plant has kindly submitted some specimens of the laminated sandstone, with 

 Estheria minuta, for my inspection (see above, p. 58) ; he has also informed me lately 

 that he has met with larger numbers in a group, at a cutting two miles from Leicester, in 

 the same beds. 



IV. Somersetshire. — Mr. Charles Moore, F.G.S., of Bath, has met with specimens of 

 the Triassic Estheria, near the following places in Somersetshire — North Curry, Taunton, 



