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iL^RINE, AND OTHER, FOSSILS IN THE YORKSHIRE COAL MEASURES 
ABOVE THE BARNSLEY SEAM. 
BY H. CULPIN. 
(Read 20th Febrtiary, 1908. Manuscript received 
Sth October, 1908.) 
When the Greological Survey Memoir on the Yorkshire 
Coalfield was published in 1878, the records of fossils from the 
measures above the Barnsley Coal were very meagre. Dr. 
Wheelton Hind, in 1895, summarised in his Monograph on the 
" Carbonicola, Anthracomya, and Xaiadites " (p. 162), the par- 
ticulars given in the Memoir regarding the Anthracosia [Carboni- 
cola) ; and added details as to similar shells obtained from the 
horizons of the Stanley Shale (Scale) and Stanley Main Coals 
at Wakefield. References to Mr. W. Hemingway's work in 
regard to plant remains will be found in the Proceedings of our 
Society for 1901 and 1902 (Vol. XIV., pp. 189-229 and 344-399), 
in ^Ir. R. Kidston's papers on the " Flora of the Carboniferous 
Period." In 1901, in the same issue of the Proceedings that 
contained the first of Mr. Kidston's two papers, a list of fish 
remains from the Lower and Middle Coal Measures was pub- 
lished by Mr. Edgar D. WeUburn (Vol. XIV., pp. 171-174). In 
this Ust, a copy of which appeared in a recent issue of the 
Society's Proceedings (Vol. XVI., Part II., 1907, p. 198), it is 
shown that fish specimens have been noted on five horizons, 
commencing with, and above, the Barnsley seam. 
In 1905, also in our Proceedings (Vol. XV., p. 330), the 
discovery was recorded, for the first time I believe in York- 
shire, of Anthracomya Phillipsi. This was at Cadeby, in some 
Red Coal Measures, about ten feet below the base of the Permian 
rocks. Shortly afterwards the same shell was seen by Mr. A. 
Jordan in grey shales at the Conisborough Brick and Tile Works. 
It was subsequently recognised in grey rocks from the Balby 
