. The Quarterly journal of the Geological Society of London. in TaythesGill above a footbridge on the west side of Fairy Gill, andeastwards into Splinter Gill, where they are again seen. In allthese localities they are very fossiliferous, and the followingforms have been found :— Dicellograplus anceps. 2, perscnlptus. 3. Trinncleus seticomis (?). 1, 2, JDionide euglypta Barr. ? (Caphyra) sp. 1. 3 (very common).Illcenus. 3. 1,2, Phacops robertsi. 1, 2, 3 (very common).Phacops apiculatus (!). cf. downingm.
. The Quarterly journal of the Geological Society of London. in TaythesGill above a footbridge on the west side of Fairy Gill, andeastwards into Splinter Gill, where they are again seen. In allthese localities they are very fossiliferous, and the followingforms have been found :— Dicellograplus anceps. 2, perscnlptus. 3. Trinncleus seticomis (?). 1, 2, JDionide euglypta Barr. ? (Caphyra) sp. 1. 3 (very common).Illcenus. 3. 1,2, Phacops robertsi. 1, 2, 3 (very common).Phacops apiculatus (!). cf. downingm. 1, 2, , 1. 1 = Wraymire Gill; 2 = Taythes Gill, west of Fairy Gill; 3 = Splinter Gill. No Staurocephalus Beds or Ashgill Shales are seen in the upperpart of Taythes Gill, where the Calymene Beds are faulted againstStockdale Shales : nor in Wraymire and Splinter Gills, the heads ofwhich are filled with drift. Drift also covers the lower part of Fig. 2.—Plan of streams at Taythes, on the scale of 6 inchesto the mile. W 7 T-i. A = Ashgill Shales. P=Phacops-robe?tsi Beds. C= Calymene Beds. >£/# F = Felsite. [The letters A, P, C are placed T=Taythes House. alongside arrows showing localities where fossils were found.] Fairy Gill, and doubtless conceals the Staurocephalus Beds : for thewell-known sections of Ashgill Shales of Fairy Gill are dippingaway from the Phacops-roberisi Beds which are above no continuous section of Ashgillian strata, like that foundin Backside Beck, has been detected in Taythes Gill. Vol. 69.] PALEOZOIC ROCKS OF THE CAUTLEY DISTRICT. 11 B. The Silurian Strata. Stockdale Shales.—In a paper on these beds by the lateProf. Alleyne Nicholson and myself, a limestone 6 inches thick wasdescribed as occurring at the base of these shales in Backside the Ashgill Shales are seen immediately below it; we havenow found fossils in the limstone itself, and they are:— Encrinurus punctatus var. arenaceus \ Le
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