Field Notebook: Illinois, Indiana, kentucky, Missouri, Wyoming, Pennsylvania 1909
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start [3065] Sep 23-1909 Thursday. Fulton Mo. Started out at 6.30 with [illegible] and a team. Drove south to the Snyder farm in ^craighead creek for [illegible]fordonta. The section here is as follows. Upper Craighead shale, 20 feet but here not more 10' can be seen. Criminal limestone. A hard dull shale. About 2 feet. Snyder Creek- head shale [illegible]me of Snyderfordonta (1) 30' [illegible]me of Snyderfordonta (2) 30' [illegible]me of Snyderfordonta (3) 2 feet thick. [illegible]me of Snyderfordonta (4) 2 feet long base not seen here. Jme(1), just below are called criminal limestone. Here the shells are packed together. These are the keuper and most accurate fossils. Jme(2) many shells packed together: much like those of Jme(1). (color stromatopore are abundant) Jme(3) This is the Byngora layer of about 2 feet thick near the center of which the Byngora are most