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A more complete account of tlie Stonesfield fossils is given by 

 PhilHps in his Geology of Oxford and the Valley of the Thames. 

 He speaks of the " Stonesfield lagoon, full of fishes and moUuscs, 

 receiving with every cyclonic storm drifted branches of cypresses 

 and swarms of wind- wrecked insects . . . ." ' As stated in the 

 following list, several of the specimens fi.gured by Phillips are now 

 in the Oxford Museum. 

 Malymenites ramulosus, Brongn. = ? Algites fureatm (Brongn.). 



Stonesfield. Type-specimen, figured 



by Brongniart in the Hist. veg. foaa. 



pi. iii. fig. 2, doubtfully identified 



with one in the Oxford Museum. 

 Cijelopteris latifolia, PhiU. = Ginkgo digitata (Brongn.). 



Eyeford. 

 Gloasopteris longifolius, Buck. = ? cf. Thinnfeldia speeiosa, Ett. 



Eyeford. 

 Hymenopteris maerophylla, Brongn. = cf. Thinnfeldia speeiosa, Ett. 



Stonesfield. Brongniart'stype-speci- 



men (Hist. veg. foss. pi. Iviii. fig. 3) 



is in the Oxford Museum. 

 Feeopteris approxvmata, PhiU. = Splienopteris, sp. b. 



Phillips, Diag. xxviii. fig. 2. Stones- 

 field. 

 P. diversa, Phill. = ? Nageiopsis, sp. 



Diag. xxviii. fig. 1. Stonesfield. 



Type-specimen (a very imperfect and 



obscure fragment) in the Oxford 



Museum. 

 P. ineisa, Phill. = Sphenopteris, sp. *. 



Diag. xxviii. figs. 5-6. Stonesfield. 



Type - specimen (indistinctly pre- 

 served fragment) in the Oxford 



Museum. 

 Sphenopteris cysteoides, L. & H. = Sphenopteris, sp. ». 



Phillips, Diag. xxviii. fig. 7. Stones- 

 field. Type-specimen in the Oxford 



Museum. 

 S. plumosa, PhiU. = Sphenopteris, sp. h. 



Diag. xxviii. figs. 3-4. Stonesfield. 

 Taniopteris latifolia, Brongn. = Ctenis latifolia (Brongn.). 



Stonesfield. Type - specimen of 



Brongniart (Hist. veg. foss. 



pi. Ixxxii. fig. 6) in the Oxford 



Museum. 



1 PhiUips (71), p. 237. 



