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VIII.—On some Fossiliferous Keuper Rocks at Bromsgrove (Worcestershire)

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 May 2009

L. J. Wills
L. J. Wills
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King's College, Cambridge.
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The counties of Warwick and Worcester have yielded the majority of Keuper fossils recorded from England. The history of their discovery commenced about seventy years ago with a paper by Murchison and Strickland, where there is a description of the area. They distinguished two divisions, the lower of which they identified as Bunter, chiefly on the evidence of a plant, Echinostdchys oblovgus, Brongn. This division was found to be, for the most part, composed of sandstones, and contained in Worcestershire plant remains and in Warwickshire bones and teeth. The localities where fossils were found were Ombersley, Hadley, Elmley Lovett, all on the west side of the Droitwich basin, Bromsgrove on the east of it, and in the Warwick district.

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Geological Magazine , Volume 4 , Issue 1 , January 1907 , pp. 28 - 34
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1907

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page 32 note 2 One of these is broken and shows very distinctly with a lens the characteristic structure.

page 32 note 3 Part of the palato-maxillary bone, with three rows of teeth.

page 32 note 4 I have shown some of these to Dr. Bather, who thinks that they may probably be referred to the Arachnida.

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