Field notes, Kentucky (?), circa 1901-1902
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Ordovician. 29 ft. 1 ft thin bedded Tetradium. 7 ft clayey limestone. 10 ft soft clay. No fossils. " limestone full of fossils. Top 4' fossiferous section = 11 feet above coral bed. Coral bed. Columnaria alvedata Calpescia criciformis. Ordovician fossils. - Pleurostoma capax rare. - Platystrophia acutiliata. - Diexetis subquadrata - Streph rugosa = vetusta? - Rafinesquina alternata large. Alev form very flat = fracta. - Platystrophia bifurcata - Streptelasma recticium. - Perarea vetusta. - Hygropiza urdista - Strephomena ancata, small form. Fine interwin as at Dayton. - Byssorhchia radiata. Siphonspira, small acute Siphonspia turpicus plena. - Hebutella occidentalis. Clint m. S. of bridge. 13 feet from top of cherty layer to lowest cherty layer. 2 ft 8 in. {13 in total me of quarried clints} bbed 12 in. layer of l. limestone 7 in. layer of l. limestone {4 3/4 ft massive rock with calcite 5ft6in trumps, especially in lower half. 9 in. with numerous worm borings at top. Thin banded. Clayey rock, soft, Tetradium.