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1863.. ROBERTS AND RANDALL PASSAGE-BEDS AT LINLEY.
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Fig. 1. — Sketch of the Upper Ludlow Rocks and the Passage-beds at
Linley Brook.
The numbers refer to those attached to the beds in fig. 2.
In connecting the higher beds of this series with the true Old
Red Sandstone, it is worth remarking* that the lowest Cornstone
of the Old Red at present known occurs interstratified with the
plant-bearing grits (d in the Linley series) at Trimpley, two miles
north-west of Kidderminster. If, therefore, these bands of inorganic
breccia have any value as dividers of the series, we have here the
proved position of one, relatively to underlying deposits, hitherto most
difficult of arrangement.
On the fossil contents of the series three observations may be
made : — firstly, the abundance of Lingulce, occurring in two condi-
tions — as well-preserved shells upon the surfaces of the shales, and
as layers of triturated shells ; secondly, the importance of the Fish-
fauna of the upper bone-bed, which has yielded the largest spines,
yet discovered, of the forms figured by Sir P. G. Egerton from the
corresponding bed at the Paper Mill, Ludlow*, together with some
fragments of solid bone (ribs ?) two inches in length ; and, thirdly,
the entire absence, so far as we have been able to make out, of Crus-
tacean remains. Even the lower " bone-bed," which has furnished,
from its outcrop at Ludlow and all other exposures, such numbers of
Astacoderma, does not appear to contain a trace of these bodies ; for,
though subjected to careful scrutiny by Dr. Harley and ourselves, it

• Quart. Journ. Geol. Soc. vol. xiii. PI. X. p. 289.