Field Notebook: Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, New York, Ohio, Rhode Island, Ontario 1916, 1917, 1920
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Toronto Saturday Sep 9 1916 Took the train at 6 to North Toronto for Cataract to collect all day in the Cataract. Back at 9.30 P.M. Collecting was good as it now appears to have been around recently, but some good byssus and fireclay slabs in the uppermost Cataract. Most of my specimens come from the limestone series above the Whirlpool sandstone. Toronto Sunday Sep 10-1916 In the afternoon worked up the Shadow Creek in the Old Brick yards in Northeastern Toronto. About 100 feet in to the series; a blue shale series with thin beds (1 to 5") of arenaceous limestone and limy sandstone. More than 75% in shale. The thick reds are thrown out and on their surfaces we can see most of the fossils. The commonest fossil is a large form of I P. sericeus, Others are S. modesta, Byssopsichia radiata, Ord. modiolari, Whitearcina 2 or 3 species, Cyrtolites ornatus, Rusophychos fuscidens, On the