Field Notebook: Ontario 1912
Page 133
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Owen found August 16-1912 Friday. Spent the morning with Parks collecting in a series of small quarries about one mile back of the Selden Hotel in the Clinton on the flat top of the escarpment. The quarries are but 3 blocks away from the Race Track or Fair Grounds. Core material is from the top 10 feet of the “Clinton” as quarried down into the flat land and south of the escarpment seen on August 3-1912. It is a greenish-gray magnesian sand in part dolomitic thin-folled limestone with thin zones of chert. Fossils are very abundant in the upper cherty zones. And so- therean Hunocorrea is the commonest and the most fossil. Orthin Helellites, Schuchetella feeta, Les. Chambrida, Dal. eleganta, P. hybrida are also common. Platysthina bipora and the corals are also rare. Clathrodictyum vesiculatum is very rare. The regular Oredina byrrha of Hamilton Ontario are also here but the Helicopheds do not strike out or abundantly here as there. These beds are the equivalent of the “Clinton” of Manitowning and Ellinwood, Parks says it is the same fauna as at the Fouts of the Credit. At Linhouse the “Oredina” is beneath this “Clinton.”