Field Notebook: Newfoundland, Nova Scotia 1910
Page 85
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As the tide covered these rocks in the morning one came back To them in the late afternoon and from the shales Torkhope For a bag full of rock with two species of graptolites (Diplograptus) that are exceedingly common but only poorly preserved, There is also present a small "Lingula" probably a Leptaerius or Paterula. The "Orthoceras" of Richardson was not seen and there is no probability of "Pardoxides n Olenellus" occurring here. It's possible that a Triarthrus may have been gotten by Richardson. From the limestones near the base of the shales Torkhope got other fossils as Ampeyx, the keeled Leptaena etc. The sandstone gone 11014 is as described by Richardson. In the afternoon examined the shore for 3 miles to the north or west of Belle Burns. Just beyond the settlement the top of zone 8 is still present and as the shore follows the strike of the strata one travels a long distance before the higher bands come in. In the 3 miles traveled one found through zones 9 and 10. The latter zone was identified by the presence of Stromatoceriun, large Brantili, Ceprenus and Amphion tails. At 3 miles south of Belle Burns the rock had the aspect of the Leperditia bed but as none of these Ostracoda were pre- sent one concluded that the horizon was still in zone 10. The rock exposures continued for another mile or 1/2 miles, beyond which no exposures could be seen all the way to Daniels Horton about 4 miles beyond one view a 7 miles from Belle Burns.