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Samer Silurian freebo are a.
broadant 60 feet brigher up,
giving southward, along the
road up the hill. 65 feet
above the creek, heavy beds of
white dense limestone with
very few fossils, belay et all
to the Samer Silurian. And
lies near the top of the forma-
tion. 18 feet higher up, at
the top of the hill east of the
road, the bucciated Devonian
bed is well exposed, and the
great abundance of large
chert fragments indicates
this presence of this layer
immediately beneath.
The chert here shown
Phacops rana
Favorites
Coral. [illegible]
Large coral, or partition walls
Also other corals.
5. of Shelby city.
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A little over a mile south of
Shelby City depot, a short distance
north of the point where Rust
Sick creek crosses the road,
the Samer Silurian is well
exposed in the eastern bank of
the creek. Three feet of blue limest-
atone merge upward into
brown shaly rock. Fossils are
especially abundant where
the transition takes place
but a few are found even
near the top of the shaly beds.
The clayey shale is 5 feet 6 in.
thick.
The following is a list of the
fossils:
Pterinea demissa
Artus occidentalis
Artus insculpta
Artus bifurata
Stephania rhomboidalis
Chaetetes by copaeidm,
20 feet intervene between the
top of the Samer Silurian and
the Devonian bed with heavy
chert. Only the upper 3 feet are
exposed. The rock is very
dense, and of a whitish color.
The Devonian bed with large