. The Quarterly journal of the Geological Society of London. ee layers of large flattened concretions of sandstone, whicheffervesce with acids. The following fossils in Captain Le Hons col-lection were obtained from this spot:— *Nummulites laevigatus,] in a bed at *Ostrea flabellula, LamJc., and 0. vir-Lamk. \ the base of gata, Goldf. * scaber, Lamk. J the section. *Dentalium Deshayesianum, Gal. Membranopora. *Spatangus Omalii, Gal. *Lichenopora. *Echinolampas affinis ?, Goldf. *Orbitolites complanatus, Lamk. *Lenita patelloides, Galeotti, sp. *LunuUtes radiatus ?, LamJc. Nucleolites approxima
. The Quarterly journal of the Geological Society of London. ee layers of large flattened concretions of sandstone, whicheffervesce with acids. The following fossils in Captain Le Hons col-lection were obtained from this spot:— *Nummulites laevigatus,] in a bed at *Ostrea flabellula, LamJc., and 0. vir-Lamk. \ the base of gata, Goldf. * scaber, Lamk. J the section. *Dentalium Deshayesianum, Gal. Membranopora. *Spatangus Omalii, Gal. *Lichenopora. *Echinolampas affinis ?, Goldf. *Orbitolites complanatus, Lamk. *Lenita patelloides, Galeotti, sp. *LunuUtes radiatus ?, LamJc. Nucleolites approximatus, Galeotti. *Idmonea triquetra, Lamx. *Cidarites ?, sp. nov, *Gastrochaena. *Echinocyanius propinquus, Gal. *Pecten plebeius, Lamk. *Scutellina rotunda, Gal. corneus, Sow. Cancer Burtini ?, claws of. *Anomia laevigata, Sow. , smaller species. Lamna, teeth ofThe species marked with * occur also at the Distillery; vide infra. z 2 336 PROCEEDINGS OF THE GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY. [May 19, IH (^ X sg ll CO ^ S o s 610 g «fl pL, 03 S <4j & ^ i §j .2 o «. 1852.] LYELL BELGIAN TERTIARY FORMATIONS. 337 (2.) St. Gilles. Fabrique deau forte (E. Map, fig. 3, PL XVII,,and Section, fig. 8). Another locality where the upper Brussels sands immediatelybelow the Laeken beds are seen with the Nummulites l(2vigatus bedat their base, is in the suburb called St. Gilles, at the Distillery Fa-brique deau forte, on the high-road to Waterloo. The fijssils whichI collected there, or which are in Captain Le Hons cabinet, are firstthe seventeen species to which an asterisk is prefixed in the precedinglist, and in addition, the two following:— Scalaria, allied to S. spirata; perhaps a rectus, Agas. (found by M. Nyst). The bed {Nummulites IcEvigatus bed) on which the sands above-described repose at the Fabrique deau forte, is full of a prodigiousquantity of fish-teeth, much rolled, of the genera Lamna, Otodus,MyliobateSj Coelorhynchus, and Edaphodon, mixed with fragmentsof Asteri
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