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I am now satisfied that the entire Armuchee
with lithologically fauna is the equivalent
is of Laramie age and is the equivalent
of the Camden chert of eastern Tennessee.
Besides the six species collected by Brooks I
must have at least ten more. Among these are
Amphithoea flatellata (my em.), Pleinpu mar
murchisoni, Pentajonia pro Clarkes species,
Trematopria multistriata, Shepherdella orichalcus
Platyistoma recticornis, Lep. adibrudalis, Arctos
the tumid Camden form, Amphia nucliea, etc.
The Rockwood here is not later than
Clinton since in it I found near the top the
Amphitheon. Below the Rockwood are heavy
beds of quartzite and then very fine sandy
shales and sandstones, the same sequence as
at the north. There is here therefore a land
interval from the beginning of Proterozoic to the close
of the Heldebyrian.
The land interval after the Chattanooga