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made many years ago and now preserved in the Philadelphia 

 Academy of Science, the shells themselves are perfectly pre- 

 served. The local faunas which have been studied will be noted 

 in order according to their localities, from the northeast to the 

 southwest. 



1 Locality I02 2 . The National Fireproofmg Company operate 

 extensive clay pits at Lorillard, east of Keyport, in the Woodbury 

 clay. In the deepest portion of the pit, south of the railroad 

 tracks, about 20 feet of black clay is dug. At about the middle 

 of the bank, through a thickness of from three to five feet, numer- 

 ous concretionary nodules occur, ranging in size from a foot or 

 more in diameter, down to a few inches, which are thrown aside 

 as the clay is excavated with the steam-shovel. While embedded 

 in the clay these nodules are of a dark, ash-gray color, but on 

 exposure they gradually weather to a reddish-brown and become 

 harder. They are abundantly fossiliferous and have afforded a 

 large fauna, as follows : 



ANTHOZOA. 



Micrabacia amencana M. & H. 



ECHINODERMATA. 



Hemiaster kiimmcli Clark n. sp. 



BRACHIOPODA. 



Lingula subspatulata H. & M. 



PELECYPODA. 



Nucula percrassa Con. 

 Nucula whilfieldi n. sp. 

 Leda compressifrons (Whitf.). 

 Yoldia longifrons (Con.) 

 Nemodon conradi Johns. 

 Cucullaea woodburyensis n. sp. 

 Breviarca saffordi (Gabb). 

 Breviarca cuneata (Gabb). 

 Nemoarca cretacea Con. 



See p. 47 for Locality IO2 1 . 



