Yol.  49.]  IN  THE  UPPER  KEEPER  AT  SHREWLEY.  173' 
especially  worth  recording,  considering  the  remarkable  absence  of 
life  in  the  British  Trias  as  a  whole.1  Only  a  few  remains  of  fishes 
have  been  found  in  it,  and  those  chiefly  in  Warwickshire,  though 
Semionotus  was  discovered  by  Mr.  Edw.  Wilson  near  Nottingham, 
and  the  remarkable  and  unique  Dipteronotus  in  the  Lower  Keuper 
Sandstone  at  Bromsgrove.  Footprints  of  Labyrinthodon  are  frequent 
in  various  places  in  the  New  Bed  Sandstone  generally,  but  notably 
in  Warwickshire,  Staffordshire,  and  Cheshire,  and  a  fine  collection 
of  reptilian  and  labyrinthodont  remains  is  preserved  in  the  Museum 
of  the  Natural  History  Society  at  Warwick. 
No  remains  of  the  possible  Lacertilian  Rhyncliosciiirus  have  been 
as  yet  detected  in  that  county,  and  they  appear  to  be  confined  to 
Grinsill  in  Shropshire,  where  a  few  skulls  and  some  footprints  are 
preserved.  The  last  apparently  existing  Pcdceoniscus  ( P .  superstes 
Egerton),  which  I  found  many  years  ago  at  Bowington,  was  obtained 
from  a  rubbly  sandy  marl  associated  with  the  sandstones,  and  higher 
up  than  the  green  gritty  marls  above  referred  to.  JSemionotns 
Brodiei ,  Newton  (Quart.  Journ.  Geol.  Soc.  vol.  xliii.  1887),  was 
discovered  at  Shrewley  in  the  sandstones  above  the  ‘  bottom-rock.7 
In  the  latter  another,  better-preserved,  and  larger  fish  was  found, 
measuring  about  5  inches  in  length,  the  head  and  scales  being 
well  shown,  which  has  yet  to  be  figured  and  described,  if  the 
owner  will  lend  it  for  that  purpose,  and  which  Mr.  A.  Smith  Wood¬ 
ward,  Assistant  Keeper  of  the  Department  of  Geology  in  the  British 
Museum  (Nat.  Hist.),  has  lately  had  the  opportunity  of  seeing.  I 
may  also  add  that,  in  looking  over  my  collection  from  the  New  Bed 
Sandstone,  the  same  palaeontologist  noticed  a  specimen  of  selachian 
cartilage  which  he  thinks  is  probably  the  upper  jaw  of  a  hybodont : 
this  was  associated  with  other  cestraciont-remains  in  the  Upper 
Keuper  Sandstones  at  Shrewley.  He  moreover  recognized  from  the 
Lower  Keuper  at  Coten  End,  Warwick,  a  tooth  of  Ceratodus  :  the 
only  other  one,  from  Bipple,  in  Worcestershire,  is  now  in  the  British 
Museum  (Natural  History). 
So  far  as  I  know  at  present,  the  quarry  at  Shrewley  is  the  only 
one  open  in  this  part  of  the  county,  and  although  the  sandstone  was 
largely  quarried  in  the  olden  times,  especially  at  Bowington,  for 
building  purposes,  it  is  unfortunately  no  longer  worked.  There  is 
plenty  of  useful  stone  there,  the  best  being  the  ‘bottom-rock,7  still 
available.2 
1  There  are  so  few  sections  in  the  Keuper  anywhere  in  Warwickshire  that, 
scarce  as  fossils  generally  are,  ruany  perhaps  might  be  obtained  if  more  quarries 
were  opened.  The  quarry  at  Coten  End,  Warwick,  has  lately  been  worked,  and 
a  nearly  perfect  jaw  of  Hyperodapedon  was  found,  showing  most  of  the  teeth  in 
place  and  the  underside  well  exposed.  It  is  probably  the  best  specimen  as 
yet  discovered  here,  and  is  now  in  the  possession  of  Mr.  Garin  Jack,  by  whom, 
at  my  suggestion,  it  was  sent  to  Mr.  E.  T.  Newton,  of  the  Geological  Survey, 
for  examination. 
2  Messrs.  Kichards  and  Jack,  two  ardent  young  geological  students  at 
Warwick,  were  present  with  me  when  we  first  detected  the  Ichthyodoruhte-bed, 
and  drew  my  attention  to  the  fossils  mentioned  in  this  paper.  They  also,  at 
my  request,  traced  the  bed  on  the  opposite  side  of  the  canal, 'and  obtained 
numerous  teeth  and  spines.  Many  of  the  latter  could  have  been  got  out  entire, 
if  the  bed  had  been  more  accessible. 
