Field Notebook: Maryland, New Jersey, Tennessee, Virginia, West Virginia, Indiana, Ohio, New York, Ontario 1907
Page 53
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Lingyi (some very large ones reminding of Platystrophia but here too many plications or ridges and sinuses, &c), Orthis testudinaria, Q. one very flat, reminding of [illegible] emacriata and Rafinesquina allometa. These beds are from 70 to 95 feet beneath the down faulted Lower Massanutten sandstone. The latter comes in as shaly, a white sandstone decidedly conglomeratic at base with pebbles of 1/4t. 3/8 inch, Just above this lower (downfaulted) Massanutten sandstone I have collected Triloculus concentricus, Calymene calvicethula, Plectambonites sericeus (very common) Orthis testudinaria (looks like ovella and the striae running out on the large line). This horizon therefore occupies WETTERON lower in the faulted part while the solid one beneath the downfaulted lower Massanutten is certainly Lorraire, In the Lower Crystal Gap Taonurus are snailings. These on the road side just east of the stream. In the Monalies at Iron Fountains I once found large Favosites heldbyriae (smaller enallite) up to 8-10 inches in diameter,