Field notes, Kentucky, undated, 2 volumes
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First cut W of Pendleton Station Banded Madonna. First cut E of Pendleton Station Well bedded clay rock with inclined strata, Cut runs N to S. Three for film horizontally, at lower endy cut there is well bedded sand, clay rock with fossils very few and poor W-sign 2nd cut E of Pendleton Thin clay layers with badly weathered thin limestone with Streptelas ma. Fossils very poor. At E end of cut = massive 2 foot layer of blue limestone with Streptelasma, planuloma, 3rd exposure E side of RR contains Tetradiella, striiformis Spe. large Spirina & Discala just below thin 2 foot limestone. About 5-6 ft. below the left Edge of limestone about 18 specimen of zygospira kentuckiensis were found, 4th cut shows Pendleton shales Labeclia 5th cut shows Tetradiella & Glimma- nia near top W-end. The Climacaria has the septae carving clear to the centre and therefore may be alveolata, but the cells are large and it may be a new species. Resembles C macrod specimen. Climax maria crurum. See section 5 south of Salt River for this limestone. The Prasinella is very large, some specimens 3 in in diameter. Top of Ukraine - cut E 4 times as left of road. Leptaea nodulosa 7 ft. of top of next cut. Discotroza farthedown. Leptaea common at next little cut in limestone at top of cut, In next cut very, much more above, Discotroza returns again just above this limestone. The Leptaea abandoned in their preceding cut occurred at least 6 ft higher up.