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These beds, which are without any marine equivalent in this country, appear completely to bridge over the interval between the Neocomian and the Oolites. They may, perhaps, as suggested by Mr. Judd, be of the same age as part of the Wealden series. Gervillia anceps, Desh. Trigonia caudata, Agassiz. Terebratula sella, Sowerby. Diceras Lonsdalii. Upper Neocomian, Wilts. a. The bivalve shell. b.
49. LONG-TAILED TIT. Acredula caudata, Linnaeus. French, "Másange
The prevalence of salt-water remains is most conspicuous in some of the central parts of the formation. Helix labyrinthica, Say. Neritina concava, Sowerby. Lymnea caudata, Edw. Cerithium concavum, Sowerby. Searles Wood in Hordwell Cliff. It is also met with in Headon Hill, in the same beds.
This resembles the figure of the Guaperva maxima caudata in Willughby's Ichthyol. There are 2 sorts of porpoises: the one the long-snouted porpoise, as the seamen call it; and this is the dolphin of the Greeks. The other is the bottle-nose porpoise, which is generally thought to be the phaecena of Aristotle. This is the guaracapema of Piso and Marcgrave, by others called the dorado.
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