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FOSSIL ESTHERLE, 



by him to the museum of the Geological Society. These Cyclas -looking shells are 

 Est her ice. 



In his 'History of the Fossil Insects in the Secondary Rocks of England,' 1845, 

 Mr. Brodie gave fuller details of these sections. That of Wainlode (p. 58) is as 

 follows 1 ; 



Feet. 



Inches. 







4 

 10 



5 



3 



Black clay , 3 



Hard blue limestone, with Ostrea, Modiola minima, and other shells 



Yellow shale, with traces of Fucoids 



Grey and blue limestone, with Insect-remains 



Marly clay 5 



Hard, yellow, nodular limestone, with small shells like Cyclas (Estherice), 

 Cypris, Unio, Plant-remains (Naiades), and some scales of Fishes, 



varying from 6 in. to 8 



7. Yellow clay 9 



8. Black shale 3 



9. Hard, grey stone, with impressions of Fucoids on the upper surface, and 



with scales and teeth of Fishes (Gyrolepis, Hybodus, Acrodus, 



Saurichthys, $*e.) 1 



JO. Black slaty clay 1 6 



11. Pecten-bed. Very hard, brownish, pyritous stone, with Pectens (Pecten 



Valoniensis), and one or two other shells (Avicula contorta) 4 



12. Blackshale 8 Q 



13. Bone-bed. Hard, thin, pyritous bed of bones, scales, and teeth of Fishes, 2 



associated with a white and yellow sandstone full of casts of Pul- 



lastra arenicola 3 



14. Black shale 2 



Green and red marls of the New Red Sandstone. 



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Specimens of Esthcria minufa, var. Brodieana, from Wainlode Cliff are figured, PI. II, 

 tigs. 12 — 15 ; they vie with the specimens of E. minuta from Pendock in their good 

 state of preservation. 



At page 79 of ' Hist. Fos. Insects,' Mr. Brodie describes the section at Garden 

 Cliff, Westbury, with its "hard, yellow, and grey limestone, often slaty and sandy, with 

 supposed Cyclas," &c. ; but we here copy the more detailed section given by Dr. T. Wright, 

 F.G.S., in the « Quart. Journ. Geol. Soc.,' 1860, vol. xvi, p. 378. 



1 See also 'Quart. Journ. Geol. Soc.,' xvi, p. 379. 



2 The following are the genera of Fishes that occur in the Bone-bed of England and the Continent 

 (see Dr. Wright's paper, 'Quart. Journ. Geol. Soc.,' vol. xvi, p. 388) : — Gyrolepis, Hybodus, Acrodus, 

 Nemacantfwt, Ceratodus, and Saurichthys. 



