PALEONTOLOGY. 



as at Binks, Eskdale, which 

 have received the name of 



Protichnites Scoticus* 



Amphibichnites. 

 Genus Cheieotheeium. 



-Fig. 



83 



gives a reduced 



view of a portion of new 

 red sandstone, with three 

 pairs of footprints in relief : 

 the first and third of the 

 left, the second of the right, 

 side. Consecutive impres- 

 sions of such prints have 

 been traced for many steps 

 in succession in the trias of 

 Warwickshire and Cheshire, 

 more especially at a quarry 

 of a whitish quartzose sand- 

 stone at Storton Hill, a few 

 miles from Liverpool. The 

 footmarks are shewn by the 

 impressions, and also in 

 relief; the former are seen 

 upon the upper surface, 

 those in relief upon the 

 lower surface of the sand- 

 stone slabs, when raised 

 from their natural position ; 

 the latter being casts, formed 

 on the subjacent footprints 

 as in moulds. The impres- 



* Harkness and Salter " On the 

 Lowest Eocks of Eskdale," Quar- 

 terly Journal of the Geological 

 Society, vol. xii., pp. 238 ; 243, fig. 2. 



