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THE QEOLOGIST. 
in reality wkhjly distriliuted througliout Groat Eritaiii. The same zoological 
features cliaractcrized botli tlic Great Oolite of tlie Cotswolds, and the same 
formation in the neighbourhood of Oxford, these features being prineipally the 
rarity of the cephalopoda, and the comjiarative abundance of carnivorous uni- 
valve shells. Yivc of these shells had not previously been detected in this for- 
mation, and eight were new to science. Mr. Wlutcaves then read a list of the 
fossils of the Eorest Marble and Cornbrash, collected at Islip and Kidlington. 
These lists comprised one hundred and twenty-six species. With regard to 
the Cornbrash, he remarked that a carcftil study of the fossils of that forma- 
tion, whether in Oxfordshire, iu Yorkshire, to on tlie Cotswolds, seemed to 
liim by no means favourable to the theory of Professor Buckman, that the 
Cornbrash asscnil)lagc 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 Oxfordslure 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 iu Oxfordshire, and 
vice versa. Ammonites and Belenmites are remarkably rare, too, in both, 
the Cornbrash and Forest Marble. Mr. Whiteaves has in his cabinet up- 
wards of three hundred species of fossils, iu the finest preservation, collected 
by himself in the neighbourhood of Oxford : of these, thirty species are new, 
the majority of which arc about to be published by the Palaeontographical 
Society. 
ON SOME EEPTILIAN FOOTPRINTS FROM THE NEW RED SAND- 
STONE NORTH OF WOLVERHAMPTON. 
By Rev. Wm. Lister. 
The object of this paper is simply to announce the discovery, not so much of 
new fossil-remains, as of some already know, but found in a fresh locality ; 
some of them are, however, believed to be new. They consist of foot-prints of 
the Cheirotherium, or Lahi/rhilhodon, the B/ii/ticosaurns, and of another animal, 
with which the author is not acquainted, but which he is inclined to think was 
a bird. 
Hitherto the remains of the Labyrinthodoii have only been found in War- 
wickshire and the north of Cheshire,* and the Kh^aicosaurus in the GrinshiU 
quarry, near Shrewsbury. The remains now discovered have been met with in 
Staifordshire, in a quarry of the New Bed Sandstone, just within the borders 
of the Bed Marl, which caps the quarry, at a place about six miles north of 
Wolverhampton, in the parish of Brewood, on the road between " The Stone 
House" and Somerford. " The Stone House," which is given on the Ordnance 
Map, is near to Chillington Avenue Gate, and within two hundred yards of the 
quarry. The bed in which they occur is about twelve feet from the surface. 
One of the slabs was so thickly covered with foot-prints resembling those of 
the B,hyncosaurus as necessardy to convey the idea that the animals which made 
them must have been very numerous on the spot. These were smaller than 
most of the others of the same kind, being oidy from three-fourths of an inch 
to an inch in length. This slab was unfortunately removed before I had au 
* This statement was oomctoil by Mr. IIiiU, of Uic Government Survey, who naracd two or 
three fresh localities in wliich the remains of tlie LabjTiuthodon have boon discovered, but the 
names of these places have not, as I undenstood, been puljHshed. 
