On the Rhætic and some Liassic Ostracoda of Britain

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I. Published observations in chronological order. The occurrence of small Ostracoda in the Rhætic strata of England has been known for about half a century, chiefly owing to the researches of the Rev. P. B. Brodie, F.G.S., who discovered them in the sections exposed at Wainlode, Westbury, Aust Passage, and elswhere. 1842–1845.—The Wainlode section is on the south side of the Severn, about halfway between Tewkesbury and Gloucester, and 3 miles W.S.W. from Coomb Hill. It was briefly described by H. E. Strickland, and more fully by the Rev. P. B. Brodie. Since then the Geological Surveyors and others have studied it in further detail. This section shows:— 1, 2, 3. Black clay, limestone, and shale of the Lower Lias. 4 [Rhætic]. Insect-bed or Monotis bed containing “ Cypris , apparently identical with that which marks the yello limestone (No. 6) below.” (‘Fossil Insects,’ etc., p. 59.) 5. Clay. 6. “Hard, yellow, nodular limestone, with small shells like Cyclas , a species of Unio , PLants ( Naiades , Cypris , and very rarely scales of fish.’ ( Ibid. ) 7–14. Clays, shales,a dn Bone-bed. “Mr. Strickland has found the yellow Cypris -limestone with Cyclas (?), the Pecten- and Bone-bed … at Dunhamstead, on the line of the Gloucester-and-Birmingham Railway, near the Droitwich Station’ (‘Fossil Insects,’ etc., p. 72); and at Evesham “are traces of the Ostrea -bed [Lias[ above and of the Cypris -bed and Plant-bed below” ( ibid. ) Among the specimens kindly lent me by the Rev. P. B. Brodie, one piece of the ‘ Cypris -bed,’ from the Wainlode Cliff, is a hard, sandy limestone, containing a ‘ Pteromya .’

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