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CULPIX : MARINE AND OTHER FOSSILS. 
and Pleuronauiilus costatus) ; seven fishes {Acanthodes sp., Ccela- 
canthus sp., Elonichthys Egertoni, Megalichthys Hibberti, 
Rhadinichthys Moncnsis, Bhizodopsis sauroides, and Strepsodus 
sauroides) ; and three plants (Neuropteris heterophylla, N. of. 
rarinervis, and Lepidodendron sp.). Similar fossils are being 
obtained from the same band since proved at Bent ley. 
The third marine band at Brodsworth occurred above 
what 1 believe to be the Winter or Abdy Coal. The only 
Mollusca found in it were Lingula mytiloides and Pterinopecten 
papyraceus. The former were very numerous, some of them 
being notably small and others as notably large. At Bentley 
an examination of the same band in the shaft, which has 
been rendered possible by the keen interest taken in the 
fossil beds by the manager, ]VIr. II . Clive, and the surveyor, 
Mr. H. T. Foster, has shown that the small ones followed the 
large ones. At Bentley Posidoniella sulcata has also been found 
in this band. Fish fragments were abundant in this band 
at Brodsworth. They included Acanthodes Wardi, Pleuroplax 
Bankinei, Coelacanthus elegans, Bhadinichthys Monensis, Bhizo- 
dopsis sauroides, and Strepsodus sauroides. 
The fourth bed occurred at rather more than 100 feet above 
the Barnsley Coal. It yielded only Lingula mytiloides and a fish 
scale, which was probably Bhizodopsis sauroides. The shales 
in this bed, as also in the other marine beds, were blue or grey- 
blue, with a markedly soapy feehng. 
This fourth bed has not yet been reached at Bentley, but 
there has been one with Lingula mytiloides and fish remains, 
about 90 feet below the principal marine band, thus making 
five marine bands in all, so far, in the two sinkings. 
Thanks are due to Dr. Wheelton Hind, Dr. A. Smith- 
Woodward, Mr. Edgar D. Wellburn, and I\Ir. R. Kidston. for 
examining and naming the Mollusca, the fish fragments, and 
the plants. Also to Dr. Walcot Gibson for guidance and assist- 
ance in the work, and to the Brodsworth Main Colliery manage- 
ment for permission to examine the material and for information 
as to the depths. 
