Field notes, Indiana and Kentucky, 1910
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Same place, My J.T. Morgan 5 ½ ft Dermal limestone 66 ft interval shaly beds, Plasmona modulos. 10 ft interval shaly with fossils base. 5 ½ pluto plant, Platy femdina 12 ft Lefraena common, + Phydendata 12 ½ ft dredged, with lamellibranch at top and Platy ferdina fairly common in general place new bedrock base (+ Pterophora in lower half) 8 ft one critical, J. Moses Fiske. J.W. Isaacs, Pleasant View Farm S mile of Ridley's on Waller's Crag shale bed R < 1 ft 10m, modulos + Plasmona. 1 ½ ft Platystrigina, collected near common. 2 ½ ft not exposed well, only footprints 6 ½ ft rich fossils from Platy ferdina, 5 ½ ft Lefraena rare except at base, where it is only moderate in numbers. 9 ft clay and after? fossils few? dagrock. Lamellibranchs: Large hand lamellibranchs, Plasmona + Cancellariini, plentiful? in shell. limestone large hand lamellibranchs 2 tangled work, fossils few? more critical + Platy femdina. The left remained is exposed in the creek and from here to the Pen- nsylvania grade bed the exposure one well shown also in the creek beds, a magnificent expe- rience of the shale bed is seen upstream. Black shale. 4 ft Dermal limestone, the Wenonam mountain, 6 ½ ft interval. 5 ½ ft Columnaria 64 ft above bed. R < Plasmona modulos, many disarticulated and free for natural divisions ments: Continuing preceding section. Dermal limestone 8 ½ ft. intervals. S < 11 ft Cdl. Alveolaris common 8 ½ ft interval. (Maherville). 1 ½ ft. Strophidoma vagans, Platystrigina? 6 m Columnaria + Petrodium. 6 in Cylindrospira, + Platystrigina 14 ft. Columnaridae? - VS run further North: Derm limestone absent 18 ft interval S < Columnaria in creek Note absence of Dermal limestone where Richmond is thickest.