1870. ] ELTHERIDGE—BRISTOL DOLOMITIC CONGLOMERATE. 189 
My friend Mr. Samuel Stutchbury many years ago also furnished 
me with the accompanying sketch (fig. 6) of the beds of conglome- 
rate during the period the remains were being removed. 
Fig. 6.—Position of Reptilia in the Conglomerate of Durdham Down. 
Dismembered Dolomitio 
remains. Conglomerate. 
IEE 
iz. Carboniferous limestone. 
I may mention that several of the bones were in actual contact 
with, or resting upon, the carboniferous limestone; whereas others, 
and the majority, were or distributed between one and two feet 
above the junction of the solid brecciated conglomerate with the 
limestone below. 
The boulders were chiefly subangular, many of great size, and 
evidently had not been far removed from their parent source in the 
Carboniferous Limestone. 
It was quite evident, from the condition and position of the re- 
mains in the breccia, that they must have been dismembered prior 
to their final deposition; for many of the bones were much frac- 
tured. This is especially the case with a lower right ramus, which 
is fractured into three pieces; and the vertebre in some instances 
are much worn or mutilated; so with the coracoids, tibia, and 
fibula, &e. I, however, abstain from entering into any particulars 
about these reptilian remains, and refer for such information to the 
researches of Prof. Huxley (loc. cit.). 
8. STRATIGRAPHICAL RELATIONS or tHE Donomiric on REPTILIAN 
CoNGLOMERATE TO ContTINENTAL Deposits. 
The equivalence of this peculiar breccia, outside the region or area 
to which it appears to be confined, is not a matter of easy solution 
even in our own country. 
Regarding its position stratigraphically, it may occupy the place 
of the Muschelkalk, a formation wanting (so far as we know) in the 
British islands*. In time, therefore, it may be, and probably is, the 
equivalent of this missing member of the Trias; but the highly 
fossiiferous condition and extensive fauna of the Muschelkalk, as 
exposed in Northern and Central Germany, contrasted with the bar- 
renness of this conglomerate, and perhaps also of the calcareous 
breccia and conglomerate of the Midland Counties, afford us no 
* The Bunter series does not appear to have been deposited in the Bristol area. 
