Field Notebook: Newfoundland, Nova Scotia 1910
Page 52
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"Thursday July 21-1910. Onse au Loup. A dark, cold, windy day with small rain after 10 A.M. Started out for the fine exposure of the limestone to the west of Point Amour Light house, about 6 miles east of Onse au Loup. Collected all day in the Olenellus horizon and got from 15 to 20 fair to good leads. One fine one ground but not so large as the one in the Canadian Geological Survey. These fossils only probably several smaller fossils than any are found. There are at least four species of Olenellus present and probably three. Associated with these trilobites are six Stenothecæ: Hyolithellus onicans, Autorgina cingulata, Paterina (small), C. Labradorica, an Orthoid? (common), Ptychopnus senectus. Got 2 large bags full and returned to the Victoria at 4 P.M. Got to the cabin. Later, During a storm off Table Head, one open hand of Cambrian fossils was upset and some of the material got a little mixed. The Olenellus lot above described is intact. The lot we are somewhat in doubt about is the lower Olenellus lot from Johnson Cove (15 to 20 feet above base of limestone). Some of these may have gotten mixed with the above and it is possible that some of the higher Olenellus led back of Mrs. Flahins house got mixed with the Johnson Cove material. If there is a second lot of Johnson Cove material not done up in large, taped bags, then this lot is intact and is not mixed. In any case one can see differences in the fauna of the two horizons.