Field Notebook: New York, Pennsylvania 1901
Page 9
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Transcription
"Are no fossils in the batydom shale travagated shale,? Magaya li.? hing Eura shale. Towards the centre of the Clinton upper red shale I found a few poorly preserved Leperditia's. In the dipping portion of the Clinton upper lime shale there are numerous thin limestone beds many of which are crowded soft fossils but few species. All the material I have is from these beds. Towards the middle of this seam I saw Orthis hybrida, Orthodonta griffardi (say), Cystea culicularis, Spirifer nigroauris, and S. sulcata or crispa. Probably of Mia- gara age. After seeing about a half hour in a quarry to the N.E. of Lexington in the Leiperston limestone, the most striking fossil is Leperditia rather large from that thin limestone in the Chalkland. I saw some Crura Chromias anales abundant.