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a much larger size than at Moscow, or at any of the other outcrops 

 at Bethany, with the possible exception of B9. Many of the shells 

 of this species have parasites attached to them. Among these para- 

 sites occur three species of bryozoans, worm tubes, and an inarticu- 

 late brachiopod. Below this layer rich in brachiopods, the shale is 

 comparatively free from fossils. A few specimens of Pleurodictyum 

 stylopora were the only fossils obtained here by the writer. 



B6 is situated on the roadside between the tile factory and the 

 station. It is an outcrop of a hard, black shale, lying quite a little 

 higher than either B5, B7, or B9. but whether it is above the Encrinal 

 limestone, the writer was unable to determine. This outcrop was 

 quite small and comparatively unimportant. 



B7 marks a number of exposures along the banks of White Creek, 

 a short distance southeast of East Bethany. This locality afforded 

 corals, brachiopods, etc. Monroe* reports finding Goniatites in pyrite 

 nodules at this place, but none was secured by the writer. 



B8 is located a mile and a half west of B4, at the point where a 

 small tributary of Tonawanda Creek runs near the track. Along 

 the banks of the tributary are piles of weathered shale in which 

 quantities of bryozoans, corals, and gastropods were found. Just 

 west of here where the road crosses the track, a cut affords a good 

 exposure of a black laminated shale similar to certain upper layers 

 at Moscow, which is practically barren of fossils, but on top of this, 

 is a thin layer in which some large brachiopods were found. The 

 shale near the brook does not appear to be in situ, and probably 

 was brought there at the time the railroad was built, from a small 

 cut just east of its present position, where a similar shale is found. 

 The Encrinal limestone is exposed in the bed of this brook, with a 

 moderate dip towards the west. This would determine both the 

 black and the fossiliferous shales to belong to the upper group, or 

 Moscow shale. While these beds are much lower topographically 

 than those at B4, they are undoubtedly higher geologically. 



B9 is found by following White Creek up stream from near the 

 tile factory, to several exposures where brachiopods abound. As 

 might be expected from the proximity of their location, the fossils 

 found at these outcrops are similar to those of B5. These outcrops 

 appear to be the upper portions of the beds whose base is exposed 

 in the clay pit at B5. 



Windom is situated about 8 miles southeast of the business center 



* Bull. Wis. Nat. Hist. Soc, Vol. a, p. 57. 



