Abstract
As a rule, the Trias in Great Britain, considering its extent and thickness, is noted for the paucity and rarity of fossils, perhaps it is the most unfossiliferous of all rocks containing organic remains in this country, especially when compared with the abundant fauna and flora of the New Red Sandstone in Europe and other parts of the world. Any addition therefore to our knowledge in a field so comparatively barren is of considerable interest to the Palæontologist. It is now many years ago since I discovered Palæoniscus superstes , apparently the last of the genus, in the Upper Keuper at Rowington. Last summer, in company with my son, Mr. Douglas Brodie, I visited the sandstone-quarry at Shrewley, and he drew my attention to some obscure remains on a slab of sandstone which, when cleared, turned out to be portions of fish, unfortunately fragmentary and ill preserved, belonging to the genus Semionotus , which, though frequent in the German Keuper at Coburg, Stuttgardt, and elsewhere, has not been previously recognized here. On a second visit I found a few more in a somewhat better condition, all of which I placed in Mr. Newton's hands. On the slab on which the first specimens were found were two impressions of footsteps of a large Labyrinthodon , and I fancy that the whole number, seven, may have been lying on the surface of one large slab afterwards broken on removal. The following section of the quarry will show the probable position of most of the fossils