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ME. LINSDALL RICHARDSON ON THE [May 1905, 



(Bishton section, continued.) jp ec t 



foci. Shales, black, becoming light - 



coloured near the top about 3 



f'l. Shales, grey, with earthy lirae- 



| stone on the top 



2. Fibrous carbonate of lime 

 ('beef') 



ihes. 



5b. < 



Limestone, hard, dark, inter- 

 in ittent 







I 4. Shales, grey and black, with 

 a half-inch layer of limestone 



about the centre 



| 5. Fibrous carbonate of lime 



t ('beef') 



Shales, grey and black ; 3 to 5 inches 

 Yellow earthy layer ; £ to f inches. . . 



Shales, black about 



|r 



Limestone, grey, earthy, passing into 

 a grey nodulated marl 



■{ 10. Shales, black, thinly laminated 



11. Sandstone, very pyrii i 





12. Shales, black, laminated 1 



13. Limestone, dark - grey, slightly 

 pyritic 



14. Shales, black, thinly laminated at • 



the top 2 



fa. Quartz-sand, rich reddish-brown 



| with hard layer above f . . . 



| b. Yellow clay .. 



15. \ c. Quartz-sand, black 



I d. Limestone, hard, dark-grey, 



| slightly arenaceous, with small 

 ^ rolled fragments of green marl. 



I. ' Tea-Green Marls ' : yellowish and 



greenish-grey marls about 12 



II. Eed Marls. 



O.i 



2 (Schizodus Ewcddi 



I 

 2 \ 



(common), Proto- 

 cardhcm Philip- 

 pianum, Cardium 

 cloacinurn, Placun- 

 opsis alpina. 



4 



0| Full of broken Pectens 



(ChlamysJ . 

 10 Schizodus Ewcddi ; 

 fish-scales. 



I Pecten (Chlamys) and 

 4 j Schizodus Ewcddi 



[ (both rare). 

 1 



( Schizodus Ewcddi (very 

 common, especially 

 in an extremely-thin 

 layer 1 inch above 

 the base), Pteria con- 

 tortct, fish - scales, 

 coprolites, and much 

 shell-debris. 

 Pteria contort a, fish- 

 scales, fish-coprolites, 

 and much shell- 

 debris. 



2 Schizodus Ewaldi(vare) . 



3< 



Fish-coprolites, Gyro- 

 3 \ lepis Alberti (scales 

 and teeth ?). 







The hard dark limestone 5 b (3) is very f ossilif erous, and the shells 

 are excellently preserved — especially the specimens of Placunopsis 

 alpina and Schizodus Eivaldi. 



