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fossils were found both above and below the Sutton fossils, and unless the 
White Lias beds were included in the Rhaetic formation, this was altogether 
absent in the Gotham quarry, since, as far as the author could ascertain, 
the Keuper marls immediately followed the Gotham marble. Details of 
the various beds were given ; the Sutton series were 12 beds of limestone 
separated by bands of clay containing encrinital joints. The sixth bed from 
the top contained the most characteristic fossils in the greatest number^ 
viz., Lima Dunravenensis, L. gigantea, L. tuberculata, Pecten Suttonensis, 
and another Pecten ; it was remarkable, however, that Plicatula intu striata, 
so abundant in the series at Bridgend, was here absent. Mr. Stoddart 
stated that Mr. Etheridge and Mr. W. Sanders were satisfied of the correct- 
ness of his views. Underneath the Sutton series were beds containing Am. 
Johnstoni, Pholidophorus, Modiola minima, Myacites, Monotis, &c, and 
at the base the well known Gotham marble. Underneath were the Keuper 
marls ; the Rhaetic beds, which usually interposed between these two, not 
having yet been met with in this spot, although as they gradually expanded 
on leaving the city of Bristol, they could be well studied in the sections 
exposed at Aust and Almondsbury, 
Mr. C. F. Ravis exhibited a slab taken from the topmost bed of the 
Gotham quarry, which showed traces of the denudation of the Lias referred 
to in the preceding paper. 
