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II.—Notes on some Remains of Cryptocleidus from the Kellaways Rock of East Yorkshire

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 May 2009

Thomas Sheppard
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On visiting Brough a short time ago I noticed a small section had been made on the western slope of Mill Hill, about twenty or thirty feet below the top. The excavation is made in soft white sand, which is very ferruginous in places. Beds of hard sandstone, varying in thickness from one to three inches, traverse it in the upper part of the section. These beds of sandstone are practically horizontal, and contain casts of Belemnites Owenii, Gryphæa bilobata, Trigonia, and other characteristic Kellaways Rock fossils. In not a single instance was a portion of a shell remaining, the whole of the calcite having been dissolved away. There is only a thin covering of soil; and this contains numerous pebbles of doubtful origin, and some pieces of Roman pottery.

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Geological Magazine , Volume 7 , Issue 12 , December 1900 , pp. 535 - 538
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1900

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page 537 note 1 “The Geology of the Country between York and Hull”: Geol. Survey Mem., 1886, p. 22Google Scholar.

page 537 note 2 Loc. cit., p. 22.

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page 538 note 1 1829 edition, p. 142.