62 LOWER OOLITIC ROCKS OF ENGLAND: 
FT. In. 
4. Hard compact bluish-grey limestone, A. concavus, A. 
Murchisonce, Belemnites, Ostrea, Rnynchonella, Tere- 
bratula - - - - - - -34 
3. G-rey and brown sandy limestone with ferruginous 
specks, Nautilus excavatus, Belemnites, Pleurotomaria, 
Lima inoceramoides, Trigonia, Gervillia - - 1 3 
2. Pale greyish-brown sandy limestone, passing down into 
bed below: Ammonites, Belemnites Blainvillei, 
AtapJirus (Monodonta) Iwvigatus, Natica, Pleuroto- 
maria, Ceromya bajociana, Exogyra, Goniomya v- 
scripta, Gresslya abducta, Homomya crassiuscula, Lima 
pectiniformis, L. duplicata, Hinnites, Modiola gibbosa, 
M. sowerbyana, Pecten laeviradiatus, P. paradoxus?, 
Thracia lata, Trigonia, Terebratula perovalis, Holec- 
typus hemisphcericus - - - ~ * 3 6 
1. Brown calcareous sand. 
Other species, collected from the iron-shot beds, are included 
in the list, p. 64. 
In the neighbourhood of Beaminster there are several quarries, 
but the beds are much displaced by faults, and this is the case 
onwards by Crewkerne and Bradford Abbas. 
The total thickness of the Inferior Oolite near Beaminster 
is from 5 to 20 feet. The beds vary much in detail ; there appears 
to be no special Terbratula-bed, as near Bridport ; nor are the 
iron-shot beds so thick and prominent. The sequence from the 
upper beds of Inferior Oolite to the Sand at their base, is shown 
in the deep road-cutting between Broad Windsor and Coney gore. 
Beneath the main mass of the Inferior Oolite limestone, there is 
a bed 9 feet thick, formed of very sandy compact limestone. It 
occurs in lenticular and nodular masses in sand, and constitutes 
a passage into the yellow micaceous sands, with beds of calcareous 
sandstone, that are exposed beneath to a thickness of about 40 
feet. The beds here do not exhibit themselves in a very fossiliferous 
form. Far more interesting sections are exposed at Stoke Knap ; 
indeed no better place can be found for examining the fossiliferous 
beds, sometimes developed, in the upper part of the Midford 
Sand. 
Stoke Knap is little more than a mile south-east of Broad- 
windsor, and the best sections of the lower beds are exposed on 
the southern slopes. Here Terebratula infra-oolitica occurs in 
profusion, accompanied by Rhynchonella cynocephala, Waldheimia 
carinata, var. Mandelslohi ;* and other fossils. There are also 
Brachiopods that cannot be distinguished fro.m young forms of 
Terebratula maxillata. It is noticeable that, while these species 
occur in abundance, the details of the beds vary in different 
portions of the hill. Fossils are prevalent here and there, but all 
the layers appear unfossiliferous in places. The beds are slightly 
faulted. The occurrence of A. torulosus at this locality has been 
mentioned by Mr. Hudleston ;f and Mr. S. S. Buckman records 
* Mr. Buckman, evidently referring to the same Brachiopod, notes it as Wald- 
heimia Blakei. Quart. Journ. Geol. Soc., vol. xlv. p. 454. 
t Gasteropoda of Inf. Oolite, p. 39. 
