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I saw Farroite grithandicus (small and medium crallits), Atypa reticularis, Schuchutella festiva and a Thetherdonta suggesting J. pygllara. There is also considerable Crinoidal matter.
Twrights At Wright's flour mill one sees a small exposure of the blue shales in the banks of the small ditch I saw earlier in the morning at Jaynes Fall which is about 1 1/2 miles west of the Redon Hotel. Wrights mill is a few hundred feet east of the turn pike about 1 mile west of the hotel. Fossils are prolific here but the exposures very small. What I saw is mainly thin bedded nodular blue argillaceous limestones separated by shale all of which creaters down into shale. The thin slabs of limestone are replete with brachiopods and hygro and of the same species that occur in the Clinton limestone, only here Androtheca flancemouza appears to be absent, the other brachiopods are more abundant. Especially common is Lep. Thorn-tridali. Steptulasoma is also common but the cuprond ones are rare.
These blue shales and limestones of the Clinton are probably not more than 20 feet thick but this I judge to be so from the general topography. The Clinton limestones are probably not more than 30 feet thick.