My Lord,
Your Lordship’s
Most humble and obedient Servant,
H. Baker.
Strand, Nov. 23d, 1758.
CVIII. A Description of the fossil Skeleton of an Animal found in the Alum Rock near Whitby. By Mr. Wooller. Communicated by Charles Morton, M. D. F.R.S.
Read Nov. 23, 1758.
IT is in this rock, that the Ammonitæ, or Snake-stones, as they are commonly called, are found, which have undoubtedly been formed in the exuviæ of fishes of that shape; and though none of that species are now to be met with in the seas thereabouts, yet they in many particulars resemble the Nautilus, which is well known. The internal substance of those stones, upon a section thereof, appears to be a stony concretion, or muddy sparr. Stones of the same matter or substance, in the shape of muscles, cockles, &c. of various sizes, are also found therein, and now and then pieces of wood hardened and crusted over with a stony substance are likewise found in it.
Philos. Trans. Vol. L. Tab. XXX. p. [787].
Part of the Fossil Skeleton of an Animal as it appeared on and united to the Allom Rock near Whitby, Jan. 3. 1758.
a. a. &c. The Ammonitæ or Snake Stones.
