scholarly journals XV.—On some new Species of Fossil Scorpions from the Carboniferous Rocks of Scotland and the English Borders, with a Review of the Genera Eoscorpius and Mazonia of Messrs Meek and Worthen

1881 ◽  
Vol 30 (1) ◽  
pp. 397-412 ◽  
Author(s):  
B. N. Peach
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
Great Britain ◽  
Geological Survey ◽  
Director General ◽  
The South ◽  
Coal Measures

In the progress of the Geological Survey of the South of Scotland, specimens referable to the genus Eoscorpius have been gradually accumulating. In 1876 J. Bennie, Fossil Collector to the Survey, obtained an example from the Coal-measures of Fife. Since then fragments have been disinterred by him and by A. Macconochie, also Fossil Collector to the Survey, from the Calciferous Sandstone series in the counties of Edinburgh, Berwick, Roxburgh, Dumfries, and Northumberland and Cumberland. It was not till the spring of last year (1880) that they began to be found in such a state as to necessitate a description of the fossils. In the summer of that year A. Macconochie obtained an almost entire example from the neighbourhood of Langholm, in Dumfriesshire. This year (1881) J. Bennie has secured several good though fragmentary specimens from the neighbourhood of Edinburgh, while A. Macconochie has sent in several from the counties of Berwick and Northumberland. In my capacity of Acting Palæontologist, I have had an opportunity of studying these remains, and by the permission of A. C. Ramsay, LL.D., F.R.S., Director General of the Geological Survey of Great Britain, and Professor A. Geikie, LL.D., F.R.S., Director of the Geological Survey of Scotland, I have been allowed to describe them.

4. Report on the Fossil Plants collected by the Geological Survey of Scotland in Eskdale and Liddesdale

1882 ◽  
Vol 11 ◽  
pp. 603-605
Author(s):  
Robert Kidston
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
Great Britain ◽  
Geological Survey ◽  
Director General ◽  
Fossil Plants ◽  
First Time

Through the kindness of Professor Geikie, Director-General of the Geological Survey of Great Britain, I have had the pleasure of examining the fossil plants collected by the Scottish Geological Survey in Eskdale and Liddesdale.The collection contains about four hundred and fifty specimens, a number of which, however, were too imperfect for further identification than that of the genus.Eight of the plants I believe to be new species, and a few of the others, as far as I am aware, are now recorded for the first time as occurring in Scottish rocks.

XXI.—Further Researches among the Crustacea and Arachnida of the Carboniferous Rocks of the Scottish Border

1882 ◽  
Vol 30 (2) ◽  
pp. 511-529 ◽  
Author(s):  
B. N. Peach
Keyword(s):  
Great Britain ◽  
Geological Survey ◽  
Director General ◽  
Lower Carboniferous ◽  
Fresh Material

I have again been privileged by Professor A. Geikie, Director-General of the Geological Survey of Great Britain and Ireland, in being allowed to bring before this Society the results of a further study of the Crustacea and Arachnida obtained by the Geological Survey from the Lower Carboniferous rocks of the Scottish Border. Since my former papers on those subjects were read, a considerable amount of fresh material has come to light, which has allowed of many species, which were formerly represented by fragmentary specimens, to be more fully described, and several altogether new to science to be added to our former list.

The Lamellibranch Zones of the South Staffordshire Coalfield

1940 ◽  
Vol 77 (1) ◽  
pp. 28-41 ◽  
Author(s):  
A. E. Trueman
Keyword(s):  
Geological Survey ◽  
The South ◽  
Small Collection ◽  
Coal Measures

Scarcely any information has been published regarding the palaeontological sequence in the Coal Measures of South Staffordshire. Some marine bands have been recorded (summarized in Whitehead, 1927, p. 31) and there are isolated records of non-marine lamellibranchs, including a number which were figured by Wheelton Hind (1894–6). Practically nothing is known, however, concerning the zonal succession of either the shells or plants in that area. Recently, through the kindness of Dr. C. J. Stubblefield, the writer has had an opportunity to study a small collection of shells obtained in South Staffordshire by the late H. W. Hughes and now in the Museum of the Geological Survey. The specimens have been collected from known horizons and have proved to be sufficient to enable the writer to fix zonal boundaries and thus to make some suggestions regarding the correlation of the marine horizons.

scholarly journals Two new species of megasporangiate <i>Sigillariostrobus</i> Schimper (Sigillariostrobaceae) fructifications from the British Coal Measures

Fossil Record ◽  
2015 ◽  
Vol 19 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-9 ◽  
Author(s):  
B. A. Thomas ◽  
L. J. Seyfullah
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
Great Britain ◽  
In Situ Spores ◽  
Two New Species ◽  
Coal Measures

Abstract. The arborescent lycophyte group known as the sigillarians bore pedunculate fructifications, including Sigillariostrobus Schimper, which has a known propensity to disaggregate, making comparisons of cones and in situ spores often difficult if not impossible. Sigillariostrobus is monosporangiate, containing either megaspores or microspores. Two new species of Sigillariostrobus with megaspores are described from the British Coal Measures. Two cones of Sigillariostrobus saltwellensis sp. nov. are described from Langsettian–Duckmantian strata of Great Britain, containing in situ Laevigatisporites glabratus (Zerndt) Potonié and Kremp spores, making this the first British Sigillariostrobus species described containing such spores. Sigillariostrobus barkeri sp. nov. is given here to the previously described cone with in situ Tuberculatisporites brevispiculus (Schopf) Potonié and Kremp spores. This is the first Sigillariostrobus cone with this megaspore species in situ, and thus shows that T. brevispiculus and T. mamillarius (Bartlett) Potonié and Kremp are not conspecific as others have previously suggested.

III.—Report on Fossil Fishes collected by the Geological Survey of Scotland in Eskdale and Liddesdale. Part I.—Ganoidei

1881 ◽  
Vol 30 (1) ◽  
pp. 15-71 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ramsay H. Traquair
Keyword(s):  
Great Britain ◽  
Geological Survey ◽  
Director General ◽  
Lower Carboniferous ◽  
Fossil Fish ◽  
Fish Remains

I am indebted to the kindness of Professor Ramsay, Director-General, and of Professor Geikie, Director of the Scottish Branch of the Geological Survey of Great Britain, for the privilege of examining and describing a remarkable collection of fossil fish-remains from the Lower Carboniferous rocks (Calciferous Sandstone Series) of Eskdale and Liddesdale. Most of the specimens were collected by Mr Arthur Macconochie, one of the collectors attached to the Scottish Geological Survey; and Mr Walter Park of Brooklyn Cottage, Langholm, has also willingly co-operated in the search, so far as the district of Eskdale is concerned. I have myself also had the pleasure of twice visiting Eskdale, along with Mr Macconochie and Mr B. N. Peach, and on these occasions I obtained a few specimens for my own collection.

VIII.—On the Discovery of Cambrian Rocks in the Neighbourhood of Birmingham

1882 ◽  
Vol 9 (12) ◽  
pp. 563-566 ◽  
Author(s):  
Chas. Lapworth
Keyword(s):  
Great Britain ◽  
Geological Survey ◽  
The South ◽  
Geological Formations

The geology of the neighbourhood of Birmingham is one of more than ordinary interest, owing to the great variety of geological formations exposed within its area. Its rocky structure was investigated about thirty years since by the officers of the Geological Survey of Great Britain, and its several geological formations laid down upon their maps, and described in detail in their various explanatory memoirs. Some of these publications—notably the maps and descriptions of the South Staffordshire Coalfield—have subsequently become classic in the literature of Geology. Since these publications were issued, however, the science of Geology has made great advances, more accurate and detailed methods of research among the older rocks have been developed, and their application to the study of the strata of the Birmingham district has recently resulted in the detection of several most interesting facts which escaped the notice of the earlier investigators.

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