Field Notebook: New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, Quebec 1905
Page 137
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and for very large size associated with two species of Halysites and other Silurian corals it began to be plain that the horizon here is partially in the Guelph. Associated are large Plate Pentamerus (Pentaceras? oblongum) a smaller pentamerid partially a byssulula, A. reticularis, Lob. shemtrida and two other species of brachiopods. Some of the fossils are fine having suffered much from compression and as the rock is often very hard we think not very poorly. Some of the corals weather out fairly crude. New Richmond Aug 29 Tuesday. Started in on the Silurian section of yesterday. Found that had begun at the best end of the section as the fossils after the Stricklandia beds are far and far between and not very good outside of the corals. Made a reconnaissance of the entire section down to the Cape but saw