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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.