Field Notebook: Vermont 1922
Page 108
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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".