Vol. 52.] ON THE UPPER PORTION OF DUNDRY HILL. 691 



Section IX. — The Southern Main-road Quarry — east of the Chew 

 Stoke road on the edge of the southern escarpment. 



ft. ins. 

 Coralline 1. Coralline limestone mixed with clay, more stony 



Beds. above, more marly below. Zeilleria Waltoni, 



Aidacothyris carinata, Rhynchonella sublet ra- 



edra, Ostrea sp., Lima sp 5 



Equivalent 2. Grey, slightly ironshot stone in regular beds and 



of Freestone. crystalline 3 4 



GARANTiANiE. 3. Grey, crystalline, somewhat ironshot ' ragstone.' 

 Astarte Manseli, Rhynchonella subtetraedra, 



Aidacothyris carinata. Corals 10 



Sauzei. 4. Hard ironshot limestone with planed-off top. 



The fossil bed, with numerous Sonninice and 

 Stephanocerata, and other fossils generally 

 agreeing with those met with in the same bed 



in the Northern Main- road Quarry 1 



Witciiellle. 5. Whitish, ironshot limestone, where exposed much 

 broken up by the weather ; when quarried 2 or 

 3 inches of this adheres to the overlying bed. 

 The upper part is best for Witchellice. Sonninia 



cf. fissilobata 6 inches from top 8 



6. Soft earthy stone with Sonninia of the ovalis-type 

 and other Sonninice, Ctenostreon pectiniforme, 



Myacites 1 



DisciTiE. 1 7. A similar limestone to base of quarry ... 6 



Section IX a. 



The following details were taken of the beds in the south-eastern 

 corner of the quarry by E. Wilson in the year 1887. The pit 

 is now nearly filled up. 



ft. ins. 



1. Bubbly earthy oolite 6* 



2. Compact ligh t-coloured limestone with small iron grains 5 



3. Irregular clay parting. 



4. Limestone, purplish-grey, compact, with small scattered iron 



grains 4 



5. Clay parting 3 



6. Light-coloured, finely crystalline limestone with small, scattered 



iron grains 4 



7. Light-grey, finely crystalline limestone with ochreous nodules, 



rather loose and rubbly. Terebratula, pectens, ammonites, 

 belemnites 1 



8. More solid, pinkish limestone, compact and unfossiliferous or 



nearly so, with more or less thickly scattered ochreous grains 



in two beds, 8 and 10 inches 1 6 



9. Hard, subcrystalline. pinkish limestone with scattered ochreous 



specks 8 



10. Hard, subcrystalline, pinkish-grey limestone with scattered 



ochreous specks 7 



11. Hard, subcrystalline, grey limestone with scattered ochreous 



specks 11 



12. Pinkish-grey limestone to base of quarry 6 



7 



Note to Section IX a. — This is the downward continuation of Section IX., 

 presumably without any noticeable break, so that Bed 1 of Section IX a is 



1 The workmen had obtained specimens of Hyperlioccras in the quarry, and 

 they must have come from Bed 7 or below it. 



