Abstract
T he occurrence of certain footprints of supposed Labyrinthodont animals in the Upper Keuper in the neighbourhood of Warwick has been long known; and they generally consist of a series of small casts and impressions, chiefly the former, over a considerable extent of surface; but no larger footsteps have been before noticed in the district. These were obtained from Shrewley and Rowington, where the Keuper contains also remains of Fish and Plants, though not exactly in the same bed affording the footmarks. The specimen to which I now wish to draw the Society’s attention was met with in a ploughed field, lying loose on the surface, having been evidently turned up by the plough, of which it bears the marks, in an extension of the same sandstone at Witley Green near Preston Bagot, about a mile from Henley in Arden, where it occupies high and undulating ground, the surface of which has been much denuded. The district is traversed by a N. and S. line of fault. (See Geol. Survey Map, sheet 54 N.E.) The sandstone crops out in a lane adjacent, and might easily be quarried; but I searched in vain for any other large slabs likely to contain any footprints, although no doubt they might be discovered along the same horizon ff the stratum containing them were worked. The specimen (of which I have sent a reduced photograph) consists of two casts in relief on the under surface of a slab of sandstone, 1 foot long and 9 inches