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THE CRETACEOUS ROCKS OF BRITAIN. ' 
If this succession is correctly interpreted, there is here about 
60 feet of Lower Chalk, and it is of a very different character from 
that near Chard. Ten or eleven feet of white chalk remain, but 
both above and below this the chalk is less white, and contains 
layers of rough lumpy chalk, quite unlike anything to the east¬ 
ward. Fossils are very scarce, but at the pit near Furley 
Mr. Rhodes found a small smooth Avicula very abundant in the 
soft white chalk, and also some specimens of an Inoceramus 
resembling mytiloides. 
In the old quarry, less than a quarter of a mile to the north, the 
basement bed is exposed, and consists of a hard glauconitic and 
quartziferous rock, like that near Chard. 
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The following is a list of the fossils which have been obtained 
from the basement-bed at Chard and Chardstock, so far as they 
are at present known. Those with an asterisk were also found in 
a pit north of Furley by Mr. Rhodes: — 
Cephalopoda. Dentalium sp. 
Am. [Acanthoceras] cenomanensis, Emarginula sp. 
dArch. Natica sp. 
„ hippocastanum,>S'ow. Pleurotomaria cassisiana, dOrb. 
„ mantelli, Sow. ,, mailleana, dOrb. 
„ navicularis, Mant. „ perspectiva, Mant. 
„ rotomagensis, Brongn . „ sp. (several) 
„ [Desmoceras] planulatus, Sow. Solarium 'l 
„ [Hoplites] Bunburyanus, Sharpe Turbo rotomagensis, d Orb. 
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curvatus, Mant. 
falcatus, Mant. 
ramsayanus, Sharpe 
Salteri, Sharpe 
[Pachydiscus] Wiesti, Sharpe 
„ [Placenticeras] obtectus, Sharpe 
[Scliloenbachia] Coupei, Brongn 
„ „ varians, Sow. 
Anisoceras armatus, Soiv. 
* Bacilli tes baculoides, d Orb. 
bScaphites yequalis, Sow. 
Turrilites Bergeri, Brongn. 
„ costatus, Lam. 
„ Morrisi, Sharpe 
„ tuberculatus, Bose. 
„ Wiesti, Sharpe 
Nautilus deslongchampsianus, cVOrb . 
elegans, Sow. 
expansus, Sow. 
Fittoni, Sharpe 
fleuriausianus, d’Orb. 
largilliertianus, d 1 Orb. 
sublaevigatus, a Orb. 
„ undulatus, Soiv. 
Gasteropoda. 
Aporrhais sp. 
*Avellana cassis, dtOrb . 
Columbellina sp. 
Cerithium sp. 
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Turritella sp. 
Lamel libi unchiata. 
Area passyana, d'Orb. 
Cardita cottaldina, cPOrb. 
Chama cornucopia, dOrb. 
Corbis rotundata, d Orb. 
„ new sp. 
Corimya (see Thracia.) 
Cucull^ea mailleana, dOrb. 
Cyprina quadrata, d Orb. 
"Exogyra conica, Soiv. 
Inoceramus latus, dOrb., non Mant. 
„ striatus, Soiv. 
lsoarca obesa, dOrb. 
Lima globosa, Sow. 
„ intermedia ? dOrb. 
* „ ornata, dOrb. 
„ semisulcata, Sow. 
Lithodomus rugosus, dOrb. 
Myoconcha cretacea, dOrb. 
Opis bicornis ? Gein. 
Ostrea vesicularis, Lam. 
Pecten asper, Lam. 
* „ Galliennei ? d Orb. 
„ [Neithea] 5-costatus, Sow. 
Plicatula infiata, Sow. 
"Septifer lineatus, Sow. {— Modiola.) 
Thracia carinifera, dOrb. 
