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Pleurotomella umbellata sect.
Umbilica umbonata.
Byssomychia radiata.
Platystrophia
Annulodonta gigantea.
4 p.m. S of crossing of Dunville
Columbia road over Dawson creek,
Oliv's shale.
9 in. Decorated base of Oliv's shale.
1 ft 5 in. Dark sandy l. with D. decorium
and small other phyllid crabs.
This is the sandy l. exposed both
here and Dunville, + recorded
in preceding notes;
1 ft 4 in. Limestone, hard, finegrained,
with D. decorium, greyish blue
2 in. shale limestone
{1 ft 6 in. limestone
3 in. chert horizon, partly free,
1 ft 2 in. dirty limestone.
4½ in. limestone splitting into small
Lae layers.
{5 4½ in. cherty limestone, partly free,
1 ft 4 in. massive stratum of limestone
6 in parting, probably clayey,
weathers out.
Oliv
7 in. greenish arg. clay shale,
@2d 1 in. irregular hard nodules,
same as those found
near base of Richm and section
at summer house localizing S.E. of
Dunville, 2 mi N of Shelbyville,
and thence as far as Shelby City.
5 in. greenish arg. clay shale,
2 ft 6 in. stratum with argillaceous lime
stone in irregular layers in argile-
laceno rock. All but upper 6 in.
rather rocky fossiliferous. For
making mortar the fossils at this
location.
1 ft 8 in. Clay arch of allay, not
from limestone limestone in upper
6 inches of stratum,
5 in shale material, weathering into
small fragments
8 in arg. limestone.
6 ft arg. rock splitting into irregular
thin layers, and vertically into
small parallelets.
4 ft 6 in covered.
Dawson creek.