LOWER RH.ETIC. UPPER RH^TIC. 
10 STRATA EXPOSED IN CONSTRUCTING FILTON-AVONMOUTH RAILWAY. 
, 1 Gotham Marble— Ft. Ins. 
Limestone, compact, arbor-' 
escent markings & coarsely 
corrugated top ; passing 
laterally into thinner bands 
of blue and brown stone 
without the ridged top, and 
often without the landscape 
markings, 3 — 6 ins. ... 
2 Sandy bed, iron stained 
3 Shale, grey, marly 
4 Limestone, grey, veryirregu-' 
lar, nodular and concre- 
tionary, septarian, cavities - 
lined with calcite, 2 — 8 
ins 
5 Shale, similar to 3 
6 Limestone, hard, gritty, ripple \ 
marked J 
7 Shale, as 3 and 5 
8 Limestone, large septarian] 
nodules, similar to 4, 3 — V 
6 ins. ... ... ... I 
9 Shale, grey, marly, with tilin'! 
limestone ... ... / 
10 Limestone, grey, gritty, mica- "I 
ceous, ripple marked / 
11 Shale, grey, marly, with thin) 
seams of limestone ... / 
12 Estheria Bed— 
Limestone, grey, fissile, with' 
thin bands of darker colour 
giving the freshly frac- - 
tured surface a streaked 
appearance 
0 4 Pseiidomoiiotis decussata^ Miinst 
0 1 
2 0 
0 5 Darioimda. 
1 0 
0 1 
0 5 
0 4 
1 0 
0 2 
0 10 
'Naiadita lanceolata, Brodie. 
Darwimda. 
Estheria mimda var Brodieana, 
1 6< Jones. 
Pecten valoniensis, de France. 
Insect fragments. Fish scales and 
teeth. 
Ft. Ins. 
13 Shale, greenish black, with'j 
band of marl containing [ 
many fragmentary shells 
and Insects 
14 Limestone, grey, gritty, pyri-] 
tic, with fibrous calcite 
above ; passing laterally |- 
into a more sandy and 
fissile bed Absent in places j 
1 
15 Shale, black, laminated (very'l ^ 
fossiliferous) / 
0 3 
Pecten valoniensis, de France. 
Avicula contorta, Portlock. 
Myo^dioria postera, Bronn. 
Protocardmm Phillipianum , 
Dunk. 
Cardium cloacimmr, Quenst. 
Schizodus Ewaldi, Bornemann. 
Pleurophorus elongatus, Moore. 
Plicatida intusstriata, Emm. 
Cardinia cf. regidaris, Terq. 
^Gyrolepis Alberti, Ag. 
, Pecten valoniensis, de France. 
Schizodus Ewaldi, Born. 
Pleuvophorvs elongatus, Mooi-e. 
Gyrolepis Alberti, Ag. 
Acrodus minimus, Ag. 
Hybodus minor, Ag. 
Avicula contorta, Portlock. 
Myophoria postera, Bronn. 
Schizodus Ewaldi, Born. 
S. concentricus, Moore. 
Cardium cloacinum, Quenst. 
Anomia sp. 
^Pleurophorus elongatus, Moore. 
