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Hystolites.
All of the trilobites and the brachiopods are clearly of Upper Cambrian
fauna more like those of the Llano's
country of Texas than of the Oriskany
of the Ohio valleys. If you get well turn
over that both Upper Cambrian and Ordovician
are present. Here in the Hystolites beds
could be gotten a fine shell collection, and
in the end at least 50 species.
Near the base of the Shales glauconite
is common in the sandstone group. See for
Sharply underlying the pinkish Upper
Cambrian limestones, occur dark blue
Ordovician li. in thick beds. These are
marked by an abundance of discretely
articulated Phymatodes (small heads) Cla-
dosporas (stems 1/2 inch thick), Atrypa
reticularis, and other things that may
be hygrograms or small Cladosporas.
Clearly these are Ordovician in age. Orthus
appear commonly beds of Atrypa minorusi-