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V.—On Actinoceras baccatum, a New Species of Orthoceratite from the Woolhope Limestone

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 May 2009

Henry Woodward
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The fossil about to be described was obligingly sent to me by Dr. Bull, of Hereford, having been happily rescued from the remorseless hammer of the road-mender, by Richard Johnson, Esq., the Town Clerk of that city. It exhibits the shell in section, fractured longitudinally, and embedded in a hard compact mass of dark blue Woolhope Limestone, which may be seen well exposed in situ in the Little Hope quarries, near Woolhope, from whence the block which contains the fossil was derived. Dr. Bull informs me that the Woolhope Limestone from these quarries is always used for road-metal in the surrounding district.

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Geological Magazine , Volume 5 , Issue 45 , March 1868 , pp. 133 - 134
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1868

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References

1 See“Woodward's Manual of the Mollusca,” p. 58.Google Scholar

2 Compare figure on Plate VIII. with M‘Coy's figure in Carbonif. Foss. of Ireland, table l, fig. 5; see also Barrande's, “Syst. Silur. de Bohême (Cephalopoda)” vol. ii., pl. 232, fig. 11.Google Scholar