104 TABULAR VIEW OF THE FOSSILIFEROUS STRATA [Ch. IX. 



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UPPER 

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SECONDARY. 



{Terrains secondaires.) 



EXAMPLES. 



British — 1. Wanting. 



2. "White chalk with flints, marine (p. 321). 



3. Chalk marl, marine (p. 330). 



4. Upper Greensand — fire-stone of Surrey, marine (p. 331). 



5. Gaul t— dark blue marl of southeast of* England (p. 331). 

 Blackdown beds of littoral origin (p. 332). 



Foreign— 1. Maestricht beds, with Mosasaurxin (p. 315). 

 Faxoe chalk with Nautilus danicus, &c. (p. 316). 



2. White chalk of Prance, Sweden and Kussia (p. 318). 



3. Planer-kalk of Saxony (p. 325). 



2 and 3. Sands and clays of Aix-la-Chapelle, with preponder- 

 ance of dicotyledonous angiosperms (p. 333). 



4. Quader sandstein of Germany (p. 334). 



5. Gault of the Loire (p. 332). 



2 and 3. Hippurite limestone of South of France (p. 336). 

 2. to 5. New Jersey (U. S.) sands and marls (p. 338). 

 2 to 5. Siliceous limestone of Texas (p. 340). 

 British — 1. Ferruginous and green sands (p. 341). 

 Kentish rag, or calcareous stone (p. 342). 

 Atherfield beds, marine, with Perna Mulleti (p. 342). 

 2. Weald clay of Surrey, Kent, and Sussex, freshwater, with 

 Cypris (p. 346). 

 Hastings sands (Tunbridge and Ashburnham beds), fresh 

 water, Iguanodon Manteili (p. 348). 

 Foreign — 1. Neocomian of Neufchatel (p. 341). 



2. Wealden beds of Hanover (p. 351). 

 British — Upper Purbeck beds, freshwater, Purbeck Marble (p. 

 379). 

 Middle Purbeck fluvio-marine, with numerous marsupial quad- 

 rupeds, &c. (p. 380). 

 Lower Purbeck freshwater, with intercalated dirt-bed (p. 389). 

 Portland stone and sand (p. 394). 



Kimmeridge clay, bituminous shale, with marine shells, 24 pei 

 cent, common to middle oolite (p. 394). 

 Foreign — Marnes a gryphees virgules of Argonne (p. 395). 



Lithographic stone of Solenhofen with Archaiopteryx (p. 395). 

 British — Coral-rag of Berkshire, Wilts, and Yorkshire (p. 398). 

 Oxford clay, with belemnites and ammonites (p. 399). 

 Kelloway rock of Wilts and Yorkshire, with shells, 21 per cent, 

 common to lower oolite (p. 400). 

 Foreign—!. Nerinaean limestone of the Jura (p. 399). 



Diceras limestone of the Alps (p. 399). 

 British— Cornbrash and forest marble of Wilts and Gloucester- 

 shire (p. 401). 

 Great oolite of Bradford, with encrinites, &c. (p. 402). 

 Stonesfield slate with marsupials and Araucaria (p. 405). 

 Fuller's earth of Bath with Ostrea acuminata (p. 412). 

 Inferior oolite, with 24 per cent, of shells common to great 



oolite (p. 412). 

 Upper lias, argillaceous, with Ammonites striatulus, Spirifer. 



and Zeptcena (p. 417). 

 Shale and limestone, with Ammonites bifrons (p. 418). 

 Marlstone series, or middle lias divisible into three zones with 



characteristic Ammonites (p. 416). 

 Lower lias, divisible into siz zones, Ammonites Bucklandi in 

 the lowest but one, and A. planorbis in the lowest zone (p. 

 419). 

 British — Penarth, or Avicula contort a beds — White lias, with 

 fish of the genera Hybodus, &c. (p. 441). 

 Dolomitic conglomerate of Bristol, with Thecodontosaurus, &c. 



(p. 447). 

 Bed clay, with thick beds of salt, at Northwich, in Cheshire (p. 

 448). 

 Foreign — Keuper beds of Germany, with Ificrolestes and fish of 

 the genera Hybodus, &c. (p. 432). 

 St. Cassian or Hallstadt beds, with rich marine fauna (p. 434). 

 Coalfield of Bichmond, Virginia, with Estheria ovata and 



plants resembling those of European Keuper (p. 451). 

 Chatham coalfield, North Carolina, with Bromatherium (p. 

 457). 

 Britisli — Wanting. 

 Foreign — Muschelkalk of Germany, with Enerinus liliiformis 



and Placodus gigas (p. 438). 

 British — New red sandstone of Lancashire and Cheshire, with 



Labyrinthodon and footpriuts of Cheirotherium (p. 443). 

 Foreign — Bunter-sandstein of Germany, with footsteps of Laby- 

 rinthodon (p. 440). 

 Bed sandstone of Connecticut Valley, with footprints of birds 

 and reptiles (p. 452). 



