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SILURIAN^ FOSSILS FROM LOCALITIES IN TORTWORTH. 
Exposures of sandstone and sandy limestone alon^ the hedge bank 
to the north of the road leading from Damery quarry to Chartield 
Mills were found to contain the following fossils : — 
Ptilodictya sp. 
Atrypa reticularis 
Coelosjnra hemispherica 
Chonetes striatella var. 
Spirifer elevatus vai’. 
Orthis elegantula 
Stropliomena compressa 
Many of these species were also 
west of Damery Bridge. 
The following Llandovery fossils, 
on the slope of the hill just south oi 
Villa : — Encrinurus punctatuSy Spi: 
hemispherica, Atrypa reticularis. 
Further to the west at Ironmill 
and the following fossils were foi 
wood ; — 
Lindstroemia hina 
,, suhduplico.ta 
Favosites forhesi 
Stropliomena arenacea 
Strophonella sp. 
Orthis elegantula 
Scenidium lewisi 1 
Atrypa reticularis 
Spirifer crispus ? 
Electamhonites transversalis 
Leptcena rhomboidalis 
Rhynchonella nucula 
, , serrata 
Modiolopsis sp. 
Horiostoma glohosum 
Loxonema sinuosa 
Tentaculites anglicus 
Encrinurus punctatus 
found in a roadside exposure to the 
practically in situ, were also found 
I the old trap quarry at Whitehall 
rifer elevatus, S. crispus, Ccelospira 
Wood the same rock-series occurs, 
ind, mainly in loose blocks in the 
Stricklandinia lirata 
Rhynchonella nucula 
,, serrata 
Platyceras sp. 
Holopea sp. 
Tentaculites sp. 
Phacops ( Phacopidella ) sp. 
,, ( Dalmanites J sp. 
Encrinurus punctatus 
Beyrichia sp. 
We further found the following fossils in a little copse by the stream 
about 250 yards north of Crockley’s Farm : — 
Lindstrcemia suhduplicata 
Streptelasma elongatum 
Atrypa reticularis 
Leptcena rhomboidalis 
Rhynchonella sp. 
Chonetes striatella var. 
Spirifer sp. 
StricJdandinia lens 
Phacops weaveri ? 
Crinoid stems 
(b) The Charfield Green Area. 
This patch of Silurian rocks, which has a maximum length of about 
a mile, and a width of about half-a-mile, is surrounded on all sides by 
Keuper. The most important fossil locality is Cullimore’s quarry, 
where a highly fossiliferous calcareous ash is seen overlying the 
upper trap band. Fossil lists from this locality are given in the Quarterly 
Journal of the Geological Society} At many points, however, the main 
1 Vol. 57 (1901) p. 271, and Yol. 64 (1908), p. 
