Field Notebook: Maryland, New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania, West Virginia 1910
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Norton, N.Y. April 30-1910 Frankful and I started away in the day at 7 A.M. The morning is dark and damp from last nights rain. walked north to Glenerie and on the way first came across the Onndaga: Lamy A. reticularis, L. rhomboidalis, Pentamerella crata, one a once small cut crabs, Dalmanites the descendant of D. plumopterus. At Glenerie between the lower falls of the Eorpus and the ridge on the left side of the river maybe seen the Glenerie formation to good advantage. In the upper 15 feet the fossils occur in great abundance. It's a Hurst avencarius lime- stone, in beds from 6 to 12 inches in which the fauna is essentially one of brachiopods and Diaphanostera. Hardly a single BrachioPod has lost valves and the large specimens are star umbonal areas. All have been crusted together in a shallower sea. Rarely one sees a large omm of a Pecti californoid. The commonest fossils are Spirifer intermedius ( smaller than Cumberland specimens), Leptocrania Platellita (very large), Spirifer aureosus, Beachia Lunana. One also sees Russellaria cricida