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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1883 edition. Excerpt:...and calcareous shales, or in places, as at Keisley, of white and pink crystalline limestone. Fossils: --Heliolites interstincta spina. Streptelesma (?) sequisulcatum P. (C.) Eichwaldi Syringophyllum organum Calymene senaria Diplograptus Illsenus Davisii Beyrichia strangulata I. Rosenbergi Harpes Doranni Orthis calligramma Trinucleus seticornis O. flabellulum Cybele Loveni O. insularis Phacops Brongniartii O. vespertilio Phacops (Chasmops) brevi-Trochoceras coruu-arietis. Upper Bala Series. The Ashgill Shales of Sedgwick and Salter succeed the Coniston Limestone, and have a very different fauna. They are never more than 200 feet thick, and consist of a lower stage of grey crystalline limestone, succeeded by poorly cleaved bluish or blackish shales. Fossils: --Caryocystites Davisii Orthis biforata Turrilepas O. protensa Trinucleus concentricus O. vespertilio Staurocephalus clavifrons O. testudinaria Phacops apiculatus Strophomena Siluriana P. eucentra Holopea concinna Cornulites Orthoceras vagans. The species which also occur in the lower stage are marked (). Silurian System. May Hill Series. Consists of three stages, the lower, (i) A series of gritty and conglomeratic beds, often calcareous, resting unconformably upon the beds of the lower System, (ii) A series of black shales deposited in deep-water, and usually graptoliferous. (iii) Pale green and purple shales, the equivalents of the Tarannon shales of Wales, (i) and (ii) must be correlated with both Upper and Lower Llandovery (May Hill) of the Welsh area. The thickness of the whole is about 250 feet in places. The beds appear to have been deposited in somewhat shallower water in parts of the Craven area (Austwick), but are otherwise similar. Fossils of (i) O. sagittifera Favosites.