On the Madreporaria of the Infralias of South Wales

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1. Introduction —Towards the end of 1865, Mr. Tawney sent me a collection of fossils from the Sutton stone in South Wales, and requested me to describe the species of Madreporaria contained in it. This description appeared as an appendix to the elaborate communication “On the western limits of the Rhætic beds in South Wales, and on the position of the Sutton stone,” by E. B. Tawney, Esq., F.G.S.* The species were but few in number, they were unlike any others from British Secondary rocks, and they presented rather a St. Cassian facies. Little could be determined, from their study, concerning the age of the Sutton stone†; and Mr. Tawney could only give a qualified opinion upon this subject after the examination of the Mollusca. Shortly after these communications were read, Mr. Charles Moore sent me a large collection of fossils from the Sutton stone and from some other Liassic beds which, rest upon Carboniferous Limestone. During this autumn, the same indefatigable geologist went over the district described by Mr. Tawney, and on his return he forwarded me a magnificent collection of specimens from Sutton, Southerndown, Brocastle, Ewenny, Langan, Laleston, Cowbridge, and Shepton Mallet. He moreover gave me all the information he could obtain on the stratigraphical relations of the highly fossiliferous beds of those localities. It soon became evident that there was a very considerable number of new species of Madreporaria among the specimes*. The objects of this communication are, to introduce to Palæontologists a new British coral-fauna from deposits

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