Field Notebook: Newfoundland 1918b
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149 August 3. Table Head Section revises. unexposed interval of Rickardom. The beds are known all clay exposed at low tide and largely exposed in the old cement prints of the other cliffs. Total of Reedmantown studied 375 feet. Table Head. Remarks about fossils by clientman. The 60 feet gone thus reddish thinly laid, at the base of the Table Head is full of clay, brachiopods. There are also large specimens of Lapinoceras protracta. All other fossils are extremely rare. There is therefore here a marked faunal difference when compared with the Chazy. The succeeding three feet reddish lie, and shale is dominated by trilobites of which 3 or 4 large species are very abundant. The large Lingula is common here and an extremely graceful slender crinoid cystidophorid. A few small specimens of a macradium were seen. At about 100 feet above the base of the Table Head that Amblypyge and Ammonites come in commonly.