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"Dunells letter to one dated Sep. 6, 1922 says
"I got several hundred fossils—mostly trilobites,
but a few brachiopods—from half a dozen lots.
along the general strike of what I presume is Dr.
Keith's "Proctus emblemerati." I never found any
fossils in what should be calcareous was the matrix
of the coal. I got them only in the pellets, so far as
I could be sure about the matter.
"But I got similar fossils in a Haack shale
stratifying the coal at Ucdanns Posture St. Altaus—
similar to those found in the pellets, but not neces-
sarily the same."
"Anywhere did I find a fauna that, as a
fauna, reminded me of any of the Paradoxides
faunas of northeastern N.A. or of Europe; but
I did find a few specimens of what certainly
seemed to be Paradoxides, and some of the other
species collected might once belong in a Paradox-
ides fauna."
In the coal just north of Sheehy Corner
he got a good Paradoxides out of a gray li.
pellet "that may indicate early Paradoxides
time, mostly older than any P. fauna yet disc-
evered".