CORALS FROM THE INFERIOR OOLITE. 143 



Genus Comoseris. (See page 102.) 



COMOSERIS VERMICULARIS. Tab. XIV, fig. 1 . 



This fossil is found at Leckhampton, and is also met with in the Great Oolite. (See 

 page 122.) 



Family CYATHOPHYLLID^, (p. Ixv.) 



Genus Zapurentis, (p. Ixv.) 



Zaphrentis? Waltoni. Tab. XXVII, figs. 8, Sa. 



It is not without much uncertainty that we refer to the genus Zaphrentis the coral here 

 alluded to, for its calice is so deeply imbedded in the surrounding stone, that we have not 

 been able to study it in a satisfactory manner, but we think we have detected some indi- 

 cation of a septal fossula (fig. 8a). It is of a conical, elongated form, shghtly curved, very 

 narrow at its basis, and surrounded with a thin epitheca presenting some circular wrinkles 

 or dilatations. The calice is almost circular, with a thin margin and rather deep. There 

 appears to be about forty septa ; they are very narrow, thin, unequal in size alternately, 

 and closely set. Height, one inch and a half. Diameter of the calice, about six lines. 



This interesting fossil belongs to Mr. Walton's valuable collection, and is catalogued as 

 having been found in the Inferior OoHte at Dundry; but we are inclined to think that 

 there may be some mistake about its origin, and that, in reality, it may appertain to some 

 strata of the Carboniferous Formation. 



Some other fossils, that we have not had an opportunity of seeing, and of which we are 

 therefore unable to give a description here, have been mentioned by different authors as 

 existing in the Inferior Oolite of England. Such are : 



1. Caryophyllia convexa, Phillips, Geol. of Yorkshire, p. 155, tab. xi, fig. 1. Found in 



the Inferior Oolite at Coldraoor. This fossil is probably a 

 young Montlivaltia. 



2. A Meandrina, Phillips, op. cit., p. 155. From the Inferior Oolite at Blue Wick. (No 



description of this fossil has been given.) 



3. A fossil coral found in the Inferior Oolite by MM. Conybeare and Phillips, (' Outlines of 



the Geol. of England, p. 249,) and referred to the Cyclolites elliptica of Lamarck. 



4. SiDERASTREA CADOMENSis, M'Coy, Ann. of Nat. Hist., s. 2, vol. ii, p. 419. The fossil 



so named was found in the Inferior Oolite at Leckhampton, 

 and considered by Prof. M'Coy as identical with the Astrea 

 cadomensis, described by M. Michelin ('Icon.' tab. 94, fig. 4), 

 or Thumnastrea cadotnensis, Milae Edwards and J. Haime, 

 (Polyp, des Terr. Palseoz., &c., p. 111.) 



5. LiTHODENDRON ASTREATUM, M'Coy, loc. cit., from Dundry. (No description given.) 



