Field Notebook: Newfoundland, Nova Scotia 1910
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Saturday July 30. Port au Choix. A fine day of sunshine. Collected all day from the head of Port-au-Choix bay along the western side out around the northern head of the peninsula and then south along the outer sides of the penin- sula to the abandoned French fishing village Port au Choix. 2oc before in zone H in front of our anchorage. Logan gives the thickness as 340 fut. Fossils are few. The most striking one being a large species of Receptaculites, probably 6 to 8 inches across, or came from The Logwood trees to this lot may come from a shore break and belong in zone far. Zone 7 or 8. Logan gives as 130 fut. Fossils are fair, abundant but most too impossibly to get. Near the top are soft large depressed gastropods (Maclurea-like, Torch crema, etc), Murchisonia formsterna, Helixen, Leachi and twls of trilobites, ostracods, a small Rafinesquina near incrustata, and Orthus near subaequata. We also saw here but could not get a large Eopstonites, and Pilocrerus canadensis (mostly roundish day). Lorn down in 6 ocean the same series of fossils but only the Pilocrerus. Zone 7 or 8, has the same fauna as 8 but no Pilocrerus, Logan gives the thickness as 130 fut. We did not buy these fossils and got as we could not tell our position or the are none most of the fossils are set any from 8 in 7 or 8 according to Logan the fossils are about the same. Zone 6 or 5 (as he says) We saw at the northern end of the peninsula The beds are heavy bedded dolomites full of diagnostic clumps and quartz, dolomite and calcite spherids. Fossils are very scarce, we saw as few depressed Maclurea-like gastropods. Logan gives the thickness as 400 fut. This probably that these beds are the bunk of zone 6. The higher beds are than mistook as