Field Notebook: Maryland, New Jersey, Tennessee, Virginia, West Virginia, Indiana, Ohio, New York, Ontario 1907
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Perryville. In the quarry 1/2 mile N.E of the station is found the Branksport telar followed by the Linden = New Scotland. It is as follows: Linden base has Orthothetes wolworthanus, Pholidomella mata, Athriofora visa. Lower third of Linden 10 1/2 ft. Ashy crinoides rock with few fossils. Middle third 11 1/2 ft. Richly fossiliferous. Jasper rock, fairly crinoides with clay beds. At base Stropheodonta kelli, Strophonella punctu- lifera, Q. wolworthanus, Dalmanites mi- curus. Key new Uncinulus schucherti. Above this fossil zone there is marl clay with many small brachiopods. Upper third, 15 ft. Fossil clay. Exposed in the northwestern corner of the town and is overlain by the layers of li. full of byzogens, is a bed 1/2 ft thick. Sandy bed above which may be the Hardin sandstone. Camden fossils about Perryville are loose and from the iron ore quarries.