Field Notebook: Michigan, New York, Ohio, Ontario
Page 77
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the lake front 2 1/2 mile to Belle Landing where the railroad has a quarry. Fossils are very scarce here and got nothing. Walked back to Petruskey along the railroad track. About one-half mile s.w. of the quarry the P.R. cuts through two small hills where I secured a number of Stropheodonta and other fossils. These beds are probably twenty feet thick and have a number of black shaly bands between the limestone. This gone is probably brindleella Try- predleptus beds and overlie the coral gone in the quarry, the Aceroulagia beds. Between these two gones there is a space of ten feet I did not see. The top of the quarry has a clay gone of two or more feet thick in which Fagorites are abundant but other fossils are scarce. From this gone down to the lake 20 to 25 foot the pre-