INFERIOR OOLITE: RAGSTONES. 117 
The Upper Trigoriia Grit, and more especially the Clypeus 
Grit, yield in abundance Terebratula globata : hence these divi- 
sions are sometimes known as the " Globata Bed:?." 
Thus the following minor palseontological divisions have been 
recognized in the Upper Division of the Inferior Oolite near 
Cheltenham : 
FT. IN. 
Upper 1 White Oolite 50 
(HuS) 166 J C1 3Tes Grit (with Pholadomya Grit) - 6 to 15 Q 
Lower f Trigonia Grit (Upper Trigonia Grit) - 2 to 12 
Eagstoues < Gryphite Grit (including Lower Trigoiiia 
(Hull). I Grit and " Chemnitzia " Grit) - 2 to 12 
These subdivisions may be looked upon as fossil-beds of a more 
or less local character, for as Lycett remarked in reference to 
them, probably in no single locality are they all exhibited ; and 
in some places (ns will be noticed) lithological divisions occur that 
cannot be precisely correlated with any of these fossil-beds. 
In the Ragstones there are few Cephalopoda, Gasteropoda, and 
few Echinoderms (excepting Clypeus) ; but Lamellibranchs and 
Brachiopoda are abundant. 
Two Coral Beds have been observed ; the Second Coral Bed, 
which occurs at the bottom of the Lower Trigonia Grit, having 
been observed at Ravensgate Hill, Birdlip, Leckhampton, Cleeve 
Hill, Juniper Hill, near Puinswick, and Brown's Hill, nearer 
to Stroud. The First or Upper Coral Bed occurs at the base 
of the Clypeus Grit or on top of the Upper Trigonia Grit, at 
Stroud Hill, Rodborough, and in the Slad Valley, Stroud. 
Specimens of Ciypeus Ploti (sinuatus) are very abundant in 
some place?. Prof. Buckman stated that "The platform upon 
which the houses at Birdlip stand, rests on this bed, which is well 
exposed by the denudation of the Fuller's earth. Here the 
plough on the Stone-brash turns up this Urchin in large quan- 
tities ; the same is the case in the Stow district, where we have 
frequently seen it gathered up in heaps for removal from the 
barley-field, and have not always succeeded in convincing our 
bucolic friends that it was not an annual production"* Some of 
the railway-cuttings near iNotgrove, and the ploughed fields near 
Naunton have also yielded these fossils in abundance. John 
Phillips mentkns that they were known as " poundstones " or 
" quoitstones," and Avere in the early days of William Smith not 
unfrequently employed as a "pound-weight " by the dairy- 
women.f Strict regulations with regard to weights and measures 
were not in force. 
The following fossils have been recorded from the Gryphite 
Grit (including the Lower Trigonia Grit) : 
Ammonites humphriesianus 
(Fig. 17). 
Nautilus lirieatus. 
Belemnites canaliculatus. 
Bourguetia striata (Chemnitzia 
Scemanni or Phasianella). 
* Quart. Journ. Geol. Soc., vol. xiv. p. 108. 
f Memoirs of Wm. Smith, p. 3. 
