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ME. J. W. KIEKBT ON THE OCCTJEEEXCE OP 



last-described locality. This outcrop is seen in the den a short 

 distance above the Parochial Office, and not far below the curling- 

 pond. The coal is again present, resting on fireclay. The fossils 

 are found in the shale above the coal. The upper group of beds 

 (d"'), in the form of red sandstone and shale, comes into section a 

 few yards further down the den. 



Other marine fossils appear in the shale of this locality. The 

 remains of a small Crinoid are common ; and besides Lingula 

 mytiloides there occur L. sqiiamiformis, Discina nitida, Productiis 

 semireticulatus var. Martini^ Discites rotifer, an OrtJioceras, some 

 Hybodont teeth, and other things. 



Perhaps the most characteristic form among the fossils at East 

 Wemyss is the Discites identified with the B. rotifer described by 

 Mr. Salter from a marine deposit near the top of the middle 

 measures of the Lancashire coal-field (see p. 752). It is two inches 

 or more in diameter, and has the same style of whorls, with sigmoidal 

 ribs, as represented in that species. Discites rotifer, however, is evi- 

 dently nearly akin to the D. falcatus of Sowerby, as pointed 

 out by Mr. Salter, and it is possible that they may ultimately be 

 found to be one and the same species. 



The Orthoceras always occurs flattened by pressure, and nothing 

 like a perfect example has been found. So far as they go, the 

 specimens, some of which are over seven inches long, seem nearest 

 to 0. cdtenuatum, Fleming. 



Some of the Hybodont teeth resemble those of Orodiis, and are 

 beautifully sculptured. Dr. Henry Woodward, who very kindly 

 examined one of the specimens, informs me that they come near to 

 the genus Mesodomodus as figured by Messrs. St. John and A. H. 

 AYorthen, from the Lower Carboniferous " Kinderhook Beds " of 

 Eurlington, Iowa*. Others of the teeth belong to a species of 

 Peialodus. 



From the three foregoing localities there have been obtained the 

 following species : — 



Strepsodus sauroides ?, Ag., teeth and 



scales. 

 Ehizodopsis ? sp., scales. 

 PalfEoniseid scales, 

 Diplodus sfibbosus, Ag. 

 Mesodomodus, sp. nov, 

 Petalodus, sp. 

 Discites rotifer, Salt. 



sp., with longitudinal ribs. 



sp., smooth. 



Orthoceras attenuatura ?, Flem. 

 Bellerophon Urei, Flem. 



Mar- 



Bellerophon decussatus, Flem. 

 Murchisonia (Aclisma) striatula, De 



Kon. 

 San^uinolites ? S]). 

 Productus semireticulatus, var. 



tini. Sow. 

 Discina nitida, Phillips. 

 Lingula mytiloides, Sow. 



• squamiformis. Fhillips. 



Crinoid stems = Act/ noainus ? sp. 

 Plant remains, obscure. 



West of Scotland. — These are the only marine beds known in the 

 Fifeshire Coal-measures. But in the West of Scotland marine 

 fossils are recorded from difierent horizons of the formation : these 



* Geol. Surv. Illinois, 1875, tqI. vi. p. 291, pi. t. figs. 18-2i 



