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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-