EAflJNA LOWER KEUPER SANDSTONE. 23 



There is in the Woodwardian Museum at Cambridge 

 a slab with a winding track about | of an inch wide, 

 which I presume is referred to in the following extract 

 from the catalogue : — " There are 5 slabs also arranged on 

 " the East side of the compartment showing footprints of 

 " various reptiles, of a Crustacean, and rain prints and 

 " sun-cracks from the N.S.R. of Cheshire." I was quite 

 inclined to agree with the catalogue as to its Crustacean 

 origin when I saw it, but within the last month I have 

 seen similar tracks on the Leasowe shore and have doubts 

 as to their Crustacean origin. In several instances there 

 was at the end of the track a small hole going down verti- 

 cally into the sand, but on digging down I failed to detect 

 the presence of anything that could have made the track ; 

 further investigation will be made. 



The results of our investigations may be briefly 

 summarised thus : — 



I. — We have seen that we have no actual evidence of 

 the presence of the Labyrinthodontia. 



II. — That certain footprints very commonly found 

 here are almost certainly those of Rhynchosaurus and 

 allied forms. 



III. — That as regards the Anomodontia we are not so 

 sure but that some short broad footprints are probably 

 due to reptiles belonging to this order. 



IV. — That with regard to Dinosauria we are quite in 

 the dark; unless the Storeton footprints or Harkness' 

 tridactylate prints at Weston should eventually be found 

 to belong to them, we have nothing that seems likely to 

 fit them. 



Y.— And of the early ancestors of the Crocodilia we 

 have so far seen no traces in our district, 



VI. — Of Fishes, no traces. 



VII.— Of the invertebrata, Vermes and probably 



