On some Fossil Reptilian Eggs from the Great Oolite of Cirencester

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T he fossils which form the subject of this notice, were obtained by one of my pupils (Mr. Dalton), from the Hare-Bushes Quarry, about one mile to the east of Cirencester. This quarry, which is largely worked for the use of its freestone, offers a good section of the upper beds of the Great Oolite of Gloucestershire,—the alternations of their bands of stone and partings of clay marking that unsteadiness of character by which the Bradford Clay and the Forest-marble appear to have commenced their depositions, the Bradford Clay (that is, a marly bed containing the fossils originally observed at Bradford, such as the Apiocrinus rotundus, Terebratula digona, T. coarctata , and T. cardium ) being only local, but still observable in many positions both to the east and west of the Hare-bushes—the most remarkable being at the Acman-street or Tetbury-road Station, about two miles to the west of the Royal Agricultural College, where the bed is about eight feet thick in its deepest part, and whence Mr. Woodward obtained no less than 127 species of fossils. Where, however, the bluer clays set in, marking the true Forest-marble, these will be found to contain but few fossils; at the same time, their position is well marked by their always resting on the upper, obliquely laminated, bed of the Great or Bath Oolite, as shown in the following The specimen containing the fossil eggs (see Figs. 1 and 2) was found in the stage marked 4, and consists of the characteristic stone. It is

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