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Mr. Webster on the Strata lying over the Chalk.
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Pecten, several species. | ||
Chama? | ||
Terebratula, many species. | ||
A longitudinal transversely rugose ostrea-form bivalve of a fibrous structure. | ||
Fragments of mother fibrous shell of a large size, of an unknown genus. See Hark. Organic Rem. pL 5. fig. 3. | ||
Alcyonia, sponges, and numerous unknown zoophytes. | ||
A ramose madrepore. | ||
Several species of minute encrini, figured by Mr. Parkinson. | ||
In the Chalk without Flints. | ||
Echini: several of the same families as those in the chalk with flints. Many of them, however, particularly the Cassides, differing much in their forms from the above. | ||
Spines of echini: and particularly those described by M. Braard as resembling the belemnite. | ||
Patella. | ||
Trochus. | ||
Serpulæ, several species. | ||
Belemnites. | ||
Lima? | ||
Fish, too much mutilated to ascertain the genus. | ||
Palates, scales, vertebræ and teeth of fish. | ||
Cancri. | ||
In the Chalk Marl.[1] | ||
Ammonites: the contour of the spiral varying from the circular to the long-elliptical. |
- ↑ On the authority of Mr. Parkinson I notice that the supposition of having discovered a specimen of Trigonia in chalk is erroneous. This belongs only to inferior strata.
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