Field Notebook: Newfoundland, Nova Scotia 1910
Page 70
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Monday August 1-1910 Port au Choix. A dark day until 3 P.M., then sunshine, dry wind. Collected here day from Point Riel light-house after one left off yesterday along the southern side of the peninsula to the head of the bay in the Port au Choix post-office at Langhamille. For nearly two miles from the light-house landward are collected in Gme 11, beginning at the top of the zone and continuing to a little below the orange layers. The latter are near the base, from 15 to 20 feet above the base. This gme is composed with fossils throughout, chiefly gastropods, and Deper- ditias. At about 15 feet above the orange beds are seen many Eurytomites. Endreous occur throughout the lower half and as a rule include most parts of the shell. A tip end is often crushed and was absent in life. In gme 11 probably 50 feet above the base one thought one daw four specimens of the sixthuncle of Pilcerus. One of these are kept. Later when one came upon the orange layers one concluded that they are not Pilcerus. This matter must be looked into. Stromatocranium occurs with and chiefly below the storms. Dependitii seem like common thing from all the beds down to the orange layers and some where seen here as once. The abundance of Ilcaenus heads and tails filling the living chambers for Endreous came in about 20 feet above the base of gme 11. The annulated opyge are usually found singly but once than once today one found them in pairs, of two and