Field Notebook: Michigan, New York, Ohio, Ontario
Page 74
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Transcription
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