olO 



THE WONDERS OF GEOLOGY. 



Lect. V. 



scales, fin-bones, and rays of fishes, belong for the most part 

 to the same genera and species as those contained in other 

 beds of the oolite ; round hemispherical teeth of species of 

 Lepidotus and Hybodus are every where met with.* 



18. Fossil Mammalia of Stonesfield. f — In addition 

 to the animal and vegetable remains above enumerated, the 

 laminated oolitic limestones of Stonesfield have yielded 

 some of the most precious relics of the past ages of our 



2 



Lign. 114.— The right side of the Lower jaw of a Marsupial Mam- 

 malian; from Stonesfield. 

 Fig. 1. Natural size. Fig. 2. Enlarged view of a single tooth. 

 (Phascolotherium Bucklandi.%) 



globe — the only known vestiges of mammalian animals in 

 the secondary formations ; in other words, in deposits of an 



* See Dr. Buckland's Bridgwater Essay for figures of several fossils 

 from Stonesfield. 



■f Medals of Creation, vol. ii. p. 852. 



I The original is in the British Museum ; it is in an admirable state 

 of preservation, and the piece of slate in which it is imbedded, has 

 numerous casts of the Trigonia impretsa, which occur in such pro- 

 fusion in the Stonesfield slate. 



