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almost none. Even the byzgos are scarce whilst
in time of the entire fauna. Ostracods and
trilobites, Calpifacies and Halysites really make
of the meagre faunas.
The Grand Coupe Ordovician beds are
much thicker and have more limestones than those
near Mt. Joli. This means either very unequal
or something before the Mt. Joli mass deposited
or the fault between these two systems cuts out
different zones.
One reason why so few fossils are found is
due to the immense crumpling, those beds have
undergone. Still the fauna at best must have
been a very small one.
If all the Gaspe limestones and sandstones
were also deposited about Pierce then the
Murchilles and Pierce uplifted rocks must have
originally stood nearly two miles high. These
Outs once uplifted towards the close of the
Devonian or early Caribou times and furnished
the rocks for the Bonarantine conglomerate of
township but a thickness.