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MAS OF ENGLAND AND WALES: 
From the Upper Lias Dr. Smithe has recorded Leptulepix 
concentricus, Pachycormus, Ammonites communis, A. bifrons, 
A. annulatus, A. lythensis, numerous Gasteropods, some Lamelli- 
brancha and Brachiopods (the last-named including the tiny 
Leptcena Moorci), Crustacea, &c. The section compares well with 
those near Ilminster ; while the yellow marly sands, which have 
yielded Bounjuctia turbinata, &c. rnay include the Transition Bed 
of the Midland Counties. 
At Stanley Hill, west of Winchcomb, the following section was 
noted by Moore and the Rev. P. B. Brodie in 1856* : 
Clay and vegetable soil 
Unnpr Lias f Saurian and Fish Bed 
U PJJC1 JJIdo I rji I 
(Basement -{ f 
Beds) Grey laminated clay 
L Beds] 
Middle Lias - Marlstone 
FT. IN. 
4 
Q 

1 
^including Leptsena 
14 
3 
The sections in this neighbourhood are sometimes referred to 
under the locality of Gretton, a village on the north side of 
the hill.t Upper Lias also occurs on Oxenton Hill. (See Fig. 87, 
and Fig. 68, p. 218.) 
FIG. 87. 
Section across Oxenton Hill, near Winclicomb, Gloucestershire. 
(Prof. E. Hull.) 
CXENTON CAMP. 
a. Inferior Oolite. 
b. Upper Lias. 
c. Middle Lias (with Marlstone on top). 
d. Lower Lias (clays). 
The Upper Lias of Dumbleton has long been a noted locality 
for its " Fish-bed " and for remains of Insects. A large collection 
of the fossils was formed by Miss Holland, of Dumbleton, J and 
the beds have been described by many geologists. 
The total thickness of the Upper Lias of this neighbourhood 
is estimated at 150 feet by die Rev. P. B. Brodie, but it is the 
lower beds, exposed on the hill that rises between the villages of 
Alderton and Dumbleton, to which attention has been prominently 
* Proc. Somerset Arch, and Nat. Hist. Soc., vol. xiii. p. 148. 
f See F. Smithe and W. C. Lucy, Proc. Cotteswold Club, vol. x. p. 209. 
Wright, Proc. Cotteswold Club, vol. iii. p. 153. 
Brodie, Geologist, vol. i. p. 230 ; Fossil Insects, p. 55 ; Quart. Journ. Geol. 
Soc., vol. v. p. 32, and Proc. Cotteswold Club, vol. ii. p. 133; Murchison, Geol. 
Cheltenham, ed. 2, by Bucknian and Strickland, pp. 35, 36 ; Uuckman, Proc. Geol. 
Soc., vol. iv. p. 211 ; F. Smithe and W. C. Lucy, Proc. Cotteswold Club, vol. vii. 
p. 149 ; R. F. Tomes, Geol. Mag., 1886, p. 108 ; B. Thompson, Jouru. Northampton 
Nat. Hist. Soc., vol. iii. p. 188. 
