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BRITISH FOSSILIFEROUS LOCALITIES 
Maperton. Dancing Cross Quarry, f mile N.N.W. of Maperton Church. 
Jurassic, Fuller’s Earth Rock, with abundant corals, brachiopods, lamelli- 
branchs and ammonites. 
Richardson, L. 1909, p. 213. Kellaway, G. A. and Wilson, V. 1941, p. 178. 
Geol. Surv. O.S. 18 ; Ord. New Pop. 166. 
Marston Magna, 5 miles N.N.E. of Yeovil. Bed of mill-stream about 
700 yds. W. of the church. 
Jurassic, Lower Lias ( obtusum zone, “ Marston Marble ”), packed with 
small ammonites ( Promicroceras and Asternceras). 
Kellaway, G. A. and Wilson, V. 1941, p. 142. 
• Geol. Surv. O.S. 18 ; Ord. New Pop. 166. 
Midford, 34 miles S. of Bath. Road-section 1 mile S. of Midford station. 
Jurassic, Upper Lias (Midford Sands), Inferior Oolite and Fuller’s Earth. 
All beds replete with fossils, especially corals and small brachiopods in top 
beds of Inferior Oolite. 
Richardson, L. 1907, pp. 406-408. 
Geol. Surv. O.S. 19 ; Ord. New Pop. 166. 
Midsomer Norton, 1| miles W. of Radstock. Tip-heap of Norton Hill 
Colliery. 
Carboniferous, Coal Measures (Farrington Group), with fossil plants : 
Sphenopteris, etc., from roof of Big Seam ; Mariopteris , etc., from roof of New 
Vein ; Neuropteris, etc., from roof of Styving Vein. 
Moore, L. R. and Trueman, A. E. 1937, pp. 229-230. 
Geol. Surv. O.S. 19 ; Ord. New Pop. 166. 
Misterton, 1| miles S.E. of Crewkerne. Misterton Limeworks Quarry 
(disused). • 
Jurassic, Inferior Oolite ( opalinum to parkinsoni zones), with abundant 
ammonites and lamellibranchs and a marl-bed near the top rich in microfossils. 
Richardson, L. 1918, p. 154. 
Geol. Surv. O.S. 18 ; Ord. New Pop. 177. 
North Coker, 2 miles S.W. of Yeovil. Road-section near lodge about 
350 yds. S.W. of N. Coker Mill, and small quarry in field 340 yds. W. of this 
road-section. # . . t 
Jurassic, Cornbrash, with many brachiopods, resting on Forest Marble 
clay, with oysters. 
Kellaway, G. A. and Wilson, V. 1941, p. 179. 
Geol. Surv. O.S. 18 ; Ord. New Pop. 177. 
Nunney, 3 miles S.W. of Frome. Large quarry near the village. 
Carboniferous Limestone (Ca-S-t subzones), with corals and brachiopods. 
Welch, F. B. A. 1933, p. 35, with geol. map. 
Geol. Surv. O.S. 19 ; Ord. New Pop. 166. 
Portishead. Cliffs and foreshore. Battery Point and Eastwood Ridge. 
Carboniferous Limestone (K and Z zones). Good preparations can be made 
by dissolving silicified fossils out of the limestone with acid. 
Reynolds, S. H. and Greenly, E. 1924, pp. 452-453, with geol. map. 
Geol. Surv. O.S. 35 ; Ord. New Pop. 155. 
Seavington St. Mary, 3 miles E. of Ilminster. Large quarry on hillside 
about 650 yds. S.S.W. of St. Mary’s Church. 
Jurassic, Inferior Oolite, with ammonites, lamellibranchs and brachiopods, 
and a thin algal band. 
Geol. Surv. O.S. 18 ; Ord. New Pop. 177. 
Shepton Beauchamp, 3 miles N.E. of Ilminster. Quarry 550 yds. W. of 
Hurcot Farm, f mile S.S.W. of Shepton Beauchamp. 
Jurassic, Upper Lias clays. Junction Bed and Middle Lias, with abundant 
ammonites and other fossils. 
Geol. Surv. O.S. 18 j Ord. New Pop. 177. 
