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Acleocrinus, 2 Dolatocrinus and
onagy bryozoa and a few corals.
The following is a section of these
beds.
Thin bedded limestone 6 feet.
Coral zone at base one foot thick
Blue shale with Bryozoa and
Cordasteres
5 feet.
Thin bedded Bryozoa lagoon
2 feet.
Lake level
Bryozoa and Dolatocrinus bed about 3 feet.
The two lower zones abound in Bryozoa
but are most abundant in the blue shale
being almost entirely Fenestellidae. The
Cordasteres are very abundant in the blue
shale with scarcer Acleocrinus and
rardy a Dolatocrinus. Corals do not
abound in this zone but immediately above
at the base of the limestone zone Favosites
placenta, Geciphyllum, Heliphylum and
other corals are abundant but soon
disappear upward. The coral known