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| Keywords: The Quarterly journal of the Geological Society of London (12684568344).jpg 1852 <br> BRICKENDEN ON DEVONIAN FOOT-TRACK <br> 99 <br> the sandstone strata irom which the slab was obtained are unques- <br> tionably referable to the Devonian formation to which they had <br> always been considered to belong ; the occurrence of foot-prints ap- <br> parently of Chelonians in rocks in which no vestiges of the class <br> Reptilia had ever been observed in any part of the world having led <br> some persons to doubt whether they might not be connected with <br> the Permian Series The discovery of the Reptile at Spynie by Mr <br> Patrick Duif dispels however all doubts on this point for the sand- <br> stones of Cummingston and Spynie are identical and at Spynie are <br> overlaid by the cherty limestone peculiar to the upper division of the <br> Devonian in this district <br> Figs 1 and 2 Sections showing the Relation of the Sandstone and <br> Limestone Rocks in the neighbourhood of Elgin <br> Fig L <br> N E <br> Fig 2 <br> Stotfield Point <br> S W <br> a a Sandstone \ T ; <br> bib Limestone P ' - <br> The sandstone quarry from which the <br> fossil reptile was obtained <br> The yellow sandstone of Stotfield is a continuation of that of Covesea from which <br> latter the Foot-prints were obtained <br> The relative position of the strata in the two localities above re- <br> ferred to is shown in the accompanying figs 1 2 The quarry from <br> which the reptile was obtained is situated on the Hill of Spynie ; the <br> locality whence I extracted the slab with foot-prints is to the north- <br> west and separated from the former beds by Loch Spynie <br> I am reminded by the accomplished editor of The Witness/ <br> Mr Hugh Miller that the Dipterian family in which M Agassiz <br> places that unique ichthyolite the Stagonolepis Robertsoni is em- <br> phatically an Old Red Sandstone family represented in the coal-mea- <br> sures only by a Biplopterus and in the Permian series it is without <br> a representative at all <br> By the discovery therefore of the foot-prints at Cummingston <br> and of the Reptilian skeleton at Spynie Morayshire we have now <br> obtained indisputable evidence in our own country I believe for the <br> first time that the class Reptilia existed at that very remote period 35461099 109911 51125 Page 99 Text v 8 http //www biodiversitylibrary org/page/35461099 1852 Geological Society of London NameFound Reptilia NameConfirmed Reptilia EOLID 1703 NameBankID 2549792 NameFound Stagonolepis NameConfirmed Stagonolepis EOLID 4531012 NameBankID 4350821 Biodiversity Heritage Library The Quarterly journal of the Geological Society of London v 8 1852 Geology Periodicals Smithsonian Libraries bhl page 35461099 dc identifier http //biodiversitylibrary org/page/35461099 smithsonian libraries Information field Flickr posted date ISOdate 2014-02-21 Check categories 2015 August 26 CC-BY-2 0 BioDivLibrary https //flickr com/photos/61021753 N02/12684568344 2015-08-27 12 53 10 cc-by-2 0 PD-old-70-1923 The Quarterly journal of the Geological Society of London 1852 Photos uploaded from Flickr by FĂŚ using a script | ||||
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