Field Notebook: New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, Quebec 1905
Page 119
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Grand River Aug 22 Tuesday. Collected all morning on the farm above the road of the Grand River postmaster. The rocks are very much decomposed here and the fossils occur as casts. Catmia in great quantity, deemed a gay slot and a bag of entire specimens. Physis- domella, Meristella the other common fossils. This horizon is about that of the Lehuquet beds. Packed my fossils this afternoon. Two handls and one box of the Baske (Postage road) One handl has some fresh and hard ones Rainy ones material material. The other various like in the Catmia slot, The box has Baske's Rainy sandstone fossils. After thralling over the various fossils collected at Dalhousie, Pierce at Baske conclude that Baske beds 1 and 2 are about of the age of the New York Creemans. The Dalhousie beds are probably the equivalent of the Baske beds nos 3, 4 and 5. The Dalhousie hypidula beds are to be compared with the N.J. Beeroft or that the beds under Mr. Sturwats farm are of about Kingston but for totally different faunal facies, Pierce rock is undoubtedly the equivalent