Field Notebook: Ohio

Ohio 1888. [illegible] doc. 71

[Charles Schuchert Peabody Mus. Yale Univ.] [illegible]

doc. 71 on June 5th, 1888 (with which) 8060 Left Clinton for Dayton 7.35 A.M. reaching there 9.25. Proceeded at once to Soldiers Home. On the railroad track near the home the Richmond beds are cut through. Fossils collected are R. denticata (com) R. caphay (rare) S. eucelatus, S. filiter textus, Streptelasma Piotrema reticulata, I. multituberculata M. quadrata, Psatrodich a pericle- gone Arthrophora subtila. These beds are as flat Richmond, nodular blue overgathering yellowish. Above the eucelatus layer which is about 10' thick there is a poor band of limestone '8" to 20" thick with a central partym's. This bed is -- feet below the Clinton. In the afternoon collected at the Stone quarries. These quarries are call'd Clinton rich! About

19-20 ft. thick, ckd. Found four entire specimens of Trilobite, three shells are quite foundant but you get only the hinge of the valve with the elongation. Brizoan were quite abundant in certain layers. Brachiopods as a rule are poor and few. Took supper at the home land then enjoyed the home theatre. June 6. Spent the forenoon at Stolz's quarry but found very little, excepting one good crinoid. Then went to Schwartzbaugh quarry and found this to be very good ground for fathus fossils. The blue shale has been thrown around and has weathered out nicely. Got two good crinoids and portion of a [car trobarn wit] Schwarztayl quarry now This affilites w/o

Schwarzaugl quarry now belonging to Erbe This sketch is by whick 3 Shaly inclined shales? hand chated col. Fault none. 2 own as foundings. own on above ind in can 5ft ft. Shuley - nodular lime s. fine & fossils 2 to 3 ft 1. 7 ft. foundings Schwarzaugl lime shales fine shale with (indicated veins) Erbe.

Soldier Home quarry northern one. Shale hard shale layer 30' = in erbe quarry. 81'-12' Top mode of Tuscips Sandy Shale & hard parting Rye + R4 and thin layers Shale Implexia horizon shaly nodular limestone uneven bedded with Trilobite shell + Stagyrae Heavy bedded same as one of Erbe quarry. 1a Cim. 8'

third. Trifleria ortoni' quite abundant found two very large and good specimens. Brugoa while very abundant and of good preservation. Packed a box at the home and shipped it thru by express. Missed the home train and was compelled to walk up in a heavy clam to Cain to get the 5:40 train for Columbus, reaching there at 7:45. Called on Mr. J Moore about groceries and got some advice about Dublin oranges. June 7 Spent all day at Dublin garage. To reach this place one has to take the 5 A.M. train of the Col. Tel & Tele, Val. RR, total manual distance 9 miles. Train dep't for Dublin in 3 m. All before breakfast. Fruits fairly abundant but rather

From the Dublin quarries we have a sample of the regular limestone and one very characteristic piece of the S. pregaria liger.

"very oral friend. Late in the afternoon spent the time at Mono and supplied some fresh. My track- " ride amounted to 3 20. June 8 Greater part of day was spent at State quarry. Found quite a lot of Stylophora, 6 codacta and about ten Nuculocrinus and a few Holocrinus. Brachiopods were scare and consisted mainly of Rhynchina valva. Nucleosphara of and Atypha acyptra were also repre- sented. All these fossils came from a layer that weathered with some hornstone. This layer is 10 ft below the shale layer covering the Columbus stone. Of this shale for sample has been taken.

June 9. Called at University in the morning but found that Clinton was not well for a week. She had to go back carrying all the corniferous fossils we found and a great deal of Clinton material from Dayton, Took a train for Cleveland at 10:45 but upon reaching Berea and seeing that the train stopped there just after dropping a little time left before I could supper we took a stroll through the mine Berea quarry. The Cayahoga shales cover all the quail sometimes as much as 30 ft. At the base of these shales Lamyala and Glycemia are very abundant. Cut out a piece of these shales for my collection and then return to the hotel,

June 10. Collected all day on Pretty River. This stream in passing through the perra grit is a very picturesque sight to behold, the grit having been undermined by the stream high bluffs have fallen down upon which the students of by zero days have engraved their names. On the upper part of this grit here are certain layers holding great number of a certain plant. The layers being made almost black by them & all other fossil ferns. A short distance down the stream there is a claye almost black color quite thin appearance, on this shale layer is a bed of sandstone about 10 in. Thick holding great number of fossils but hard to get good specimens at the end up with the stream but between

"there. The genuine that are refracted are Rhysophris, Crysia or Prucly- from Whitmer, and this is thin of tamephtragich--. I live three miles Cuyahoga on Bedford? I gather them at home. They are slightly distended in place and all of 1/4 more or less up above. At one place about a couple below the lineuprift their obj chas in a range about 75-ful thick. The scales are black when fresh or fleshy and smell quite strong of oil, but when laying out they weather in to a blue. Some of them are also of a dull red. June 11 I Rain all morning and rather cold, go first had fire in the Store at the hotel at Berea--.

Collected some Lingula and Discina in the morning and then packed the box and shipped it. Balance of day spent in looking up Herzog, I Reach Cleveland 6:50 P.M. June 12 In company with Rev. Herzer- collected at Bedford, 12 miles east on Pittsburgh R.R. The ex- p-posed here are along Tinkers Creek and show the Bedford, Cleveland and Erie shales -- The first is about 80 or 90 feet thick and of the same color as that seen from Rocky Hill near Berea -- At the base of the Bed- ford, just at the junction with the Cle- vland shales where all the fossils are found. The Pholidoph - occurr

"in the bluer shale or just at the junction of the Clevel and shales. The Cleveland shales are here of a very black color, split into thin plates and not more than 20 feet thick. Found no fossils. Herder has gotten some coal remain from them. Every shot is pyrite, common as Then come the Erie shales of a bluish color with bands of imp- pure limestone holding a fair quantity of Georgian fossils (Cheney's) in rather poor condition. The shale break into very small pieces in the horse and can readily be separated from the black shale lying above. Looked over Herder cabinet and got some few specimens."

June 13 Wednesday Tried all day to get some fish remains in a creek five miles west of Cleveland but it was a total failure. The first day of work which gilded nothing. Ed & Henry went to Berea to get specimens for the Expedition and shipped a box weighing 105 lbs. June 14 Started out for the Valley R.R. to get a turn for Richfield but missed it and had to lay over until 12 o'clock. Did not get this one, but finally could catch the third one. At Peninsula we could not get cat until 6:20. Saw some shale.

on the western side of track which proved to be Epile shale. The specimen from this locality are in the bottom of box containing the Richfield fossils sent from that place. Sent to Richfield at 8:30 June 15- Collected in the small run just north of the cemetery a tribu- tary of Furnace Run. I have not got far finding the Crinoid horizon but about very good to fair speci- mens in the wash out. After digging a hole about 3 ft square over were surprised to find at a single good specimen. The upper bed is a blue shale horizon inter- laminated with beds of limestone some weathering red and very

soft that hold or casts a great many fossil. June 16 Finished this run down to whip it into Furnace run and then took a road running with the creek (Furnace) to get into head water. So passed over a small stream which one were not there over Furnace run so kept along the road and over fully Two groups in finding the stream or worm or spring and table. Fossils we got more in this stream Reached Cleveland at 6 o'clock P.M.

June 17 Returned to Cin. after spending three b[illegible] at Cleveland. Left at 11 A.M. reaching Cin at 8 1/2 P.M. June 18 Started out at 6 20 for Blanchis- ton and by 2 o'clock had a boy loaded with shale containing Wabash and shale equivalent to those at Mr. Sonipfer. The boy tells me the blue clay is just full of trilobites. I at 2 3/4 started out for Leesboro. Got the balance of shale but could see no good shale. These beds liberate but few fossils, all [illegible] imbedded in the rock. Reached Leesboro about 7 o'clock.

June 19 Started out at 6:30 for the small ravine that Mr. Dayler mentioned. Found it Tpe miagan shale at bottom, blue, then running into yellow shale and then yellow impure sandstone, holding a layer of blue crystalline limestone much in appearance as the Clinton holding a good many fossils, particular-ly al Pentamerus & [illegible]? There is another horizon holding fossil higher up all in chest and fairly preserved. In the afternoon Mr. Dayler showed me the best locality around Hillsboro - as I can't aid I could not see many fossils and it turned out Leptocrinus were the same ground that I had gone over in the mor-

mily. Then crossed over to the north in a small quarry and there found the Springfield Cliff, a dark blue sandy limestone, it in layers of mainly 8 in layers and one 2 ft layer. I could see no fossils in these beds at all. These are overlain by 10 ft of sand rock holding some chert, all fossils are rolled and crystallized. For [illegible] calcite. Mr. Lacy calls it the jopple bed. Above this should be the Pentamerus bed but nowhere could I see it exposed. They cut in the ocean a qualt upon it and in opening the street they open the layers holding Pentamurus oblong us.

June 20 Looked up the old abandon- doned R.R. cut north of the Town picked up a few coral and one specimen of Fenestella. Then went up to Lillie Hill and got a piece of the Hilabor- or Sandstone. Ragged the Town boxes in the afternoon. The Kings. slabs are all from Regsburn excepting one piece of shale which is from second creek north of Bearcreek. Left at 3 o'clock P.M. Reached Greenfield about 7.

Greenfield Jan. 21. Started out at 7:30 for Ruckers quarry over in Rose Co along Paint Creek. The quarry show a face of limestone 8:35 ft covered by 10 ft of soil. The top layers of Limestone are all strata in a N @ E S.E. direction. The bottom layers of the quarry are very regular and admit of being easily quarried. They make blocks if pit for street work. Then follow layers with dense bands of Asphalturn in course of two in, up to 2 ft. One layer is rather porous and holds a great many depredation. Near the top occur about ten feet of very irreg lar concretionary layers almost made up of small concretional fragments. This makes the best

"lime. At the southern end of the quarry they encountered an extremely large module measuring at least 18 feet through. There is another one still unshaped of about the same dimension. The strata all around the module run up and over them making a complete dome shaped maps. The module itself is much harder than anything surrounding it and seems to be made of consolidated masses of the limestone which runs in all directions interspersed with lay coral and blue black crystals. Also deposi- ditions and an Arthurs pteropods and spirifers... This lump would make good lime were it not for the clay or dirt it holds and the crystals which will not burn.

At another quarry a little south of the same firm they are in this lower layer, which are very regular in about 6"x2" in corners and get little chisel'd up so that they can use the drill and wood for every core. Packed a box and shipped it weighing 107 lbs. cost 6d. Left for Poplsmouth by way of Chellicothe at 6-29 J June 22 Looked up two localities in company with E.C.V & Mr. Gichtor but found very little in the line of fossil in fact but one slab with Charites.

if i fy, in the Bully de la Soc. Seel of France, writ a paper on bean a in T. bratula. I have, however, seen numerous specimens with the tegal integri and infusorate, as in the other leg apices of cign. (Belle thinks his concentric containid some li. timidu.) Mr. referred eleven of to his semen. Dane in his French Dentseluetos in 1856 abandone Atheriw ar defined for a, tumida and regrt al de concentric a th type of Spirigum

June 23 Left on an early morning train for Sciotville and found considerable fossil mainly trachidoma of the upper horory aigqual to the Richfield & border left about 4 o'clock in Spar- my Creek. Reaching here packed two boxes and then looked around and got rock samples. June 24 In company with Mr. Hugh Shields looked over the ore claim and collected the different kinds. In the afternoon looked up sandstone at the mine and collected a lot of plants which were quite abun- dant. Left for Penderoy on a steam-

one wanting in the other group. page 128 On page 146 of the same word he thus amazingly described the species- "Koch. Char. - Orbed, orbicular, small, no cardinal area or delineation; spinal appendages very large, filling the greater part of the skull. This very interesting proof furnishes all the external characters of the Teretratulae due united to the internal structure of the fingers, to which latter family it truly belongs. Prof. Cuvier is the only author who has recognized the group; he from a part of his last observations of the same species, but gave no characters to distinguish it from Teretratula; the internal structure is, however, a sure guide. The above is all he wrote about it at that time. On page 147 in regard to Leconstrictus he said "that of. it and uncommon"

June 25 Boat could not get to Pomeroy and left us off at Point Pleasant. but a train about nine and I stayed over at Cheshire. In the afternoon looked up Carl (Carl Fleming [Coal mine]). Collected some goods and got wet to the skin. Left for Pomeroy about nine o'm. June 26 I spent all day in the Cogel branch collecting farm. Ed looked around days a week. Left for Springfield took about six o'clock on the river at Mason City. Slept at Stratford.

"must be obtained for that group and cannot now be to preferred to the other section of which A. tumida is the type. This reasoning, according to my opinion, can only hold good in case it must be implied that Mr. C. specially confined the genus to shells having the precise character of those in his official list, or pointed out one of them as a type, or drew up his diagnosis in such a manner as to exclude A. tumida. Mr. C. made the genus in his Syn. of the Carb. Foss. of Ireland 1844. I don't say after speaking of the Spiriferæ 2. Endostonicæ, 3. Athyridæ, etc., or which then is no account of either flamen, cardinal area, or dorsal hinge. This distinguishable genus is frequently confounded with that shell usually named Terebratulæ in the older works, but is distinguished by the large spiral appendage behind.

June 27. Reached Hany mi\nrock about 10 o'clock. Boat\ncame along between 4 and 5 and\nleft for Crin (Q\n\nSection of well at Hilcboro\nDrift\n6'\nMiagden\n50'\nMiogana shale\n65'\nHayton Stone\n5'\nClinton\n50'\nBlue shales\n10'\nRed shales\n20'\nModing\n450'\nBlue Limestone\n\nBlue shalen Limest\n368\nGray Limestone\n20'\nBrown shalen\n166'\nRitchie shale\nGalena Trenton\n40\nBlue shales\n5\nTrenton\n\nThe well was sunk to the depth 1700\nat about 1680 the struck Blue lick at\nthe first depth of brine salt water.

J. tumida, Salmon, and J. berculena Serrander in that year Mr Davidson divided it into two smaller genera, conforming the former Orysta to that sectum for which if you cannot affix either with a tumida or herculana for the type and adjusting Spinifera, the type, for the other type J. concentrica. It was afterwards found that Orysta as thus rededined includes two genera, and in consequence it has been again divided by separating all those typified or J. berculana under the genus of Orysta, a genus well and but not clearly defined morphologically. For which I believe to be the true one Those who contend are opposed to this arrangement contend that, as all the species which Orysta placed in the same at the time he first described it belong to the group typified by J. concentrica the name Orysta