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II.—The Suffolk Bone-bed and the Diestien or Black Crag in England

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 May 2009

E. Ray Lankester
E. Ray Lankester
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Junior Student of Christ Church, Oxford.
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In the following pages, I am anxious briefly to make known certain new facts bearing on the history of the Crags which I have recently ascertained, and also to make some obervations on papers lately published relating to those beds.

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Geological Magazine , Volume 5 , Issue 48 , June 1868 , pp. 254 - 258
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1868

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page 255 note 1 In former papers I have spoken of the bed from which the Cetaceans originally come as of Middle Crag age. This is an error; the Middle Crag of Antwerp is probably, as Mr. Godwin-Austen says, of Scaldisien age, with remaine Diestien forms in it. There is no doubt that the Antwerp Cetaceans and Sharks belong truly to the Diestien system, and hence it is to the derived Diesten fauna in the Middle Crag that. our Coprolite fossils are related.

page 257 note 1 No Elephant occurs with the Mastodon in the Suffolk Bone-bed. The late Dr. Falconer was, I believe, misled on this point, by specimens from the Bed Sands above the Red Crag.

page 257 note 2 Dr. Hugo Muller, whose name is well known among chemists, and who has paid especial attention to this subject, has kindly promised to communicate an article to the Geological Magazine upon this very question, at a future day.—Edit.