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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.