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TERTIARY: Headon Series and beds between the Paris Gypsum and the Gres de Beauchamp: 14: 10 English, 4 French. Barton Clay and Sables de Beauchamp: 0. London Clay, including the Kyson Sand: 7 English. Plastic Clay and Lignite: 9: 7 French, 2 English. Sables de Bracheux: 1 French. Thanet Sands and Lower Landenian of Belgium: 0. SECONDARY: Maestricht Chalk: 0. White Chalk: 0. Chalk Marl: 0.
Among the few species already detected, two at least belong to the anthropomorphous class. The only reputed fossil monkey of Eocene date, namely, that found in 1840 at Kyson, in Suffolk, and so determined by Professor Owen, has recently been pronounced by the same anatomist, after re-examination, and when he had ampler materials at his command, to be a pachyderm.
On the whole, about eighty species of fish have been described by M. Agassiz from these beds of Sheppey, and they indicate, in his opinion, a warm climate. In the lower part of the London clay at Kyson, a few miles east of Woodbridge, the remains of mammalia have been detected. Some of these have been referred by Professor Owen to an opossum, and others to the genus Hyracotherium.
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