The Medals of Creation, Volumes 1 and 2 / First Lessons in Geology and the Study of Organic Remains

by Gideon Algernon Mantell

Seafield, Isle of Wight. Upper Eocene. Palæotherium.

Southbourn, Sussex. Pleistocene. The plain of alluvial mud and clay, called the "Wish:" a section seen on the sea-shore between the Sea-houses and the foot of the chalk hills. Elephant, Hippopotamus, Deer, Horse, Ox.

Southwold, Suffolk. Pleistocene. Elephant, Rhinoceros, Horse, Deer, Mastodon: Otter, in Red Crag.

Stonesfield, near Woodstock, Oxfordshire. Great Oolite. The only known locality in England of remains of mammalia of the Secondary period. See p. 805.

Studd Hill, a mile westward of Herne Bay. London clay. Hyracotherium.

Swansea (Paviland Cave, near). See Paviland.

Wirksworth, Dream Cave. A perfect skull of Rhinoceros; in Dr. Buckland’s museum, at Oxford.

Woodbridge, Suffolk. At Kyson, near Woodbridge. Eocene. Teeth of Monkey, &c.

Note.—For notices of the occurrence of Mammalian Bones at Betchworth, Brighton, Dover, East Bourn, Folkstone, Maidstone, Marden, Peasemarsh, the valley of the Wey, Stonesfield Slate, Thames Valley, &c., see Quart. Journ. Geol. Soc. vol. vii. (consult Index). Of foreign localities, Tibet, Upper Punjab, Siwalik Hills, Vichy, &c., are also referred to in the same volume.