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BRITISH FOSSILIFFROUS LOCALITIES 
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Backwell, 7 miles S.W. of Bristol. Quarries in Cheston Coombe, near 
Back well. 
Carboniferous Limestone (S zone), with corals ( Lithostrotion ) and brachio- 
pods ( Composita Seminula ] ficoidea, Productus , etc.). 
Wallis, F. S. 1922, pp. 210, 215, with geol. map. 
Geol. Surv. O.S. 19 ; Ord. New Pop. 165. 
Banwell, 3 J miles N.W. of Axbridge. Quarries on Banwell Hill, N.W. of 
Banwell Castle. 
Carboniferous Limestone (C 2 subzone), with many corals and brachiopods. 
Bamber, A. E. 1924, p. 87, with geol. map. 
Geol. Surv. O.S. 19 ; Ord. New Pop. 165. 
Barrow Gurney, 5 miles S.W. of Bristol. Dial Quarry, on S.E. side of 
Bristol-Bridgewater road, 1 mile S.W. of reservoirs. 
Carboniferous Limestone (S 2 subzone), with corals ( Lithostrotion ) and 
brachiopods ( Composita [Seminula] ficoidea , Productus, etc.). 
Wallis, F. S. 1922, pp. 210, 213, with geol. map. 
Geol. Surv. O.S. 19 ; Ord. New Pop. 165. 
Binegar, 3] miles N. of Shepton Mallet. Numerous quarries E. of the 
village. , 
Carboniferous Limestone (S and D zones) with corals ( Lithostrotion , 
Palaeosmilia) and brachiopods. 
Welch, F. B. A. 1929, pp. 48, 68, with geol. map. 
Geol. Surv. O.S. 19 ; Ord. New Pop. 166. 
Bleadon, 3| miles S. of Weston-super-Mare. Small gravel-pit opposite 
Anchor Inn on main Bridgewater- Weston road, just S. of Bleadon. 
Upper Pleistocene (talus-breccia on 50-ft. raised beach platform). A sandy 
basement-bed, 20 ft. below the surface, yields bones, mainly reindeer antlers 
( Rangifer tarandus ) and vole-bones ( Microtus ratticeps ). 
Palmer, L. S. 1930, p. 51. ' 
Geol. Surv. O.S. 20 ; Ord. New Pop. 165. 
Blue Anchor, 5 miles S.E. of Minehead. Reefs in foreshore at low tide. 
Triassic, Rhaetic, with fish-remains ( Ceratodus, etc.) in bone-bed and many 
lamellibranchs in hard bands, including forms rare elsewhere, such as Pteromya 
crowcombeia. 
Richardson, L. 1911a, pp. 15-18, pi. II. 
Geol. Surv. O.S. 20 ; Ord. New Pop. 164. 
Burrington, 4| miles N.E. of Axbridge. Natural exposures, screes and 
quarries in Burrington Combe, S.S.E. of the village. 
Carboniferous Limestone (complete succession from K to D, zones). The 
full sequence of characteristic corals, brachiopods, etc., can be found. 
Reynolds, S. H. and Vaughan, A. 1911, p. 342, with geol. map. 
Geol. Surv. O.S. 110 ; Ord. New Pop. 165. 
Camez-ton, 2 miles N.N.W. of Radstock. Tip-heap of Camerton Colliery. 
Carboniferous, Coal Measures (Radstock Group), with abundant fossil 
plants, especially Pecopteris and rare non-marine shells ( Anthraconaia prolifera). 
Moore, L. R. and Trueman, A. E. 1937, p. 231. Moore, L. R. 1938, p. 294, 
Geol. Surv. O.S. 19 ; Ord. New Pop. 166. 
Chester-Made, 3 miles S.E. of Shepton Mallet. Alham Lane Quarry, on 
N. side of lane £ mile E. of Chesterblade, 2\ miles S.E. of Shepton Mallet 
station. 
Jurassic, Fuller’s Earth Rock, with many lamellibranchs, gastropods, etc. 
Richardson, L. 1909, p. 212. Arkeli, W. J. 1939c. 
Geol. Surv. O.S. 19 $ Ord. New Pop. 166. 
