Field Notebook: Georgia, Virginia, West Virginia 1902
Page 28
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Sept. 13-1902 Corington Va. About 1/2 mile D.-E. or almost E. of the Internment Hotel on a low hill side faced of the village there is an old abandoned quarry that formerly also had a lime kiln, Here are shown the arenaceous heavy bedded Beercroft limestone and some marl just probably on the hill side above the Oriday, in the Beercroft saw what appears to be D. munchianii. Besides the fossils collected, Also saw Hippurionyx proximus, A ?Phacodonta ovistellania quite large. One of these appear to be D. bedii and thus D. magnifica. Understandly D. ovistellania is the transitus species between those two species. A sectional view of the hill is as follows: ? Oriday Beercroft dips N. about 150 Corington In the ?Oriday saw D. munchianii, then majus