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THE GEOLOGIST. 



ill reality widely distributed tlirougliout Great Britain. The same zoological 

 features characterized both the Great Oolite of the Gotswolds, and the same 

 formation in the neighbourhood of Oxford, these features being principally the 

 rarity of the cephalopoda, and the comparative abundance of carnivorous uni- 

 valve shells. Five of these shells had not previously been detected in this for- 

 mation, and eight were new to science. Mr. Whiteaves then read a list of the 

 fossils of the Eorest Marble and Cornbrash, collected at Islip and Kidlingtou. 

 These lists comprised one hundred and tw-enty-six species. With regard to 

 the Cornbrash, he remarked that a careful study of the fossils of that forma- 

 tion, whether in Oxfordshire, in Yorkshire, to on the Gotswolds, seemed to 

 him by no means favourable to the theory of Professor Buckman, that the 

 Cornbrash assemblage of fossils, on the whole, more closely resembles the 

 series from the Inferior than that from the Great Oolite. Comparing the col- 

 lection formed in Oxfordshire with the fossils of the same formation at Scar- 

 borough, as catalogued by Mr. Bean, we see that, although there exists a 

 general resemblance, yet, on the whole, this is not so great as we might have 

 supposed, and that each district possesses several species apparently peculiar 

 to it — many Yorkshire species being probably absent in Oxfordshire, and 

 vice versa. Ammonites and Belemnites are remarkably rare, too, in both 

 the Cornbrash and Eorest Marble. Mr. V/hitea^es has in his cabinet up- 

 wards of three hundred species of fossils, in the finest preservation, collected 

 by himself in the neigh^bourhood of Oxford : of these, thirty species are new, 

 the majority of which are about to be published by the Palasontographical 

 Society. 



ON SOME EEPTILIAN FOOTPRINTS PROM. THE NEW RED SAND- 

 STONE NORTH OP WOLVERHAMPTON. 



By Rev. Wm. Listee. 



The object of this paper is simply to announce the discovery, not so mucli of 

 new fossil-remains, as of some already known, but found in a fresh locality ; 

 some of them are, however, believed to be new. They consist of foot-prints of 

 the CJtcirotherium, or Lahyr'mtliodon, the R/ipicosaunis, and of another animal, 

 witli which the author is not acquainted, but which he is inclined to think was 

 a Lnrd. 



Ilil lierto the remains of the Labyrinthodon have only been found in TTar- 

 wickshire and the north of Cheshire,* and the Rhyncosaurus in the GrinshiU. 

 (piMviy, lu'iir Shrewsbury. Tlie remains now discovered have been met within 

 St;!n'oi\l>.lurc, in a quarry of the New lied Sandstone, just within the borders 

 of ilic Red iMarl, which caps the quarry, at a place about six miles north of 

 "Wolvcrlianipton, in the parish of Brewood, on the road between "The Stone 

 House" and Somerford. " The Stone House," which is given on the Ordnance 

 M;v}i, is near to Cliillington Avenue Gate, and within two hmidred yards of the 

 (luarry. The bed in which they occur is about twelve feet from the surface. 

 One of llic slabs was so thickly covered witli foot-prints resembling those of 

 Khviicosaurus as necessarily to convey the idea that the animals which made 

 tluMii imisl have been very nnmcrons on the spot. These were snuiller tlian 

 most ul" \ \w ollun-s of the same khul, being oidy from three-fourths of an inch 

 to an in length. This slab was unfortunately removed before I had an 



* This sUitcnicnt was covrccicd by IVtr. Hull, of the Government Survev, who named two or 

 tkrco tVcsh localities in which tlic remnins of the Labyrmthodon have been discovered, but the 

 uiuncis of these places have not, as I nnderstood, been pubhshed. 



