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Jones at the Bennett quarries,
The Natural History Society
Have a fine collection of Pittsford eurypterids from
Pittsford and Fairport, N.Y.
Teller Collection is here and on exhibition.
Minus the large Bennett Collection of eurypt-
eridids. What has become of it?
In the Bennett quarries paid most attention
to the Chemung-Ormdaga contact. As
a rule it is an undulating contact ranging
between six inches but in places it is as much
as eighteen inches. In most places there is an
intercourse,
carbonaceous, slightly sandy shale with scattered
pieces of the Chemung and some iron pyrite.
The Ormdaga limestone begins above with an
abundance of fossils, mainly brachiopods and
a fewif bivalve limestone. In places the basal
Ormdaga may be sandy or conglomeratic, but
as a rule there is none of the latter. Saw no
fossil jowts in the Chemung.