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IV.—Lower Greensand and Purbecks in the Vale of Wardour, Wilts

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 May 2009

P. B. Brodie
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In the Geological Magazine for July last the Rev. W. Andrews and Mr. Jukes-Browne gave an account of Lower Cretaceous strata in the Vale of Wardour. I can bear testimony to the correctness of this statement. Many years ago, when geologizing in the vale chiefly among the Purbecks, I found many portions of ironstone and hard ferruginous sandstone, in the fields and by the roadside both at Dinton, Teffont and especially at Chilmark, containing casts of Cyrena, Turritella, and a part of a dermal scute of a Saurian, which I believe belong to the Lower Greensand, but I never saw it in situ, and it seems to have been greatly denuded.

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Geological Magazine , Volume 8 , Issue 10 , October 1891 , pp. 455 - 456
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1891

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page 455 note 1 Among these fish is Coccolepis Andrewsii, A. S. Woodw., which is allied to Palœoniscus, and is now in the Jermyn Street Museum. Mr. Smith Woodward lately showed me another remarkable small fish sent to him by Mr. Andrews from Teffont, which the former will shortly figure and describe. These, added to the others long ago figured and described from Dinton, make a most interesting list of new forms from the Wiltshire Purbecks. The other genera from Teffont include Pieuropholis, Microdon, showing the teeth in sitû, and Lepidotus minor.