CA RB ONIFER OUS A ND PERM I A N FORMA TIONS I 5 5 



SECTION OF THE NEHAWKA QUARRY COntilUlcd. 



Ft. In. Ft. In. 



4. Black shale that is quite bituminous - - - i 4 = 9 5 



3. Limestone, best building stone in quarry - - 7=81 



2. Limestones at base of quarry. Floor goto 95 feet above 



railroad level ------- i o — 7 



I Yellow to buff arenaceous shales in railroad cut under 



6 = 6 



quarry - - - ' 



The dip is small and toward the east. About twenty-two 

 feet of the limestones are worked, the stone being crushed and 

 used for railways and highways. Some of it is also burned for 

 quicklime. The shale was formerly sent to Louisville, where 

 it was burned for vitrified brick. There are some fossils in the 

 upper limestones, especially in the shaly partings, yet. with 

 the exception of Athyris subtilita, no species can be said to be 

 abundant. These upper limestones, No. 9 of the section, fur- 

 nished the following species : 



Athyris {Setnimila) subtilita (Hall) Newb. (aa). 

 Spirifer catnerattts Morton (c). 

 Derbya crassa (M. & H.) H. & C. (r). 

 Productus {JMarginiferd) longispinus Sowb. (r). 

 Productiis costatus Sowb. (?) (rr). 



Productus sef/iireticulatus (Martin) de Koninck. Fragment of specimen 

 (rr). 



Hypothyris {Pugnax) uta (Marcou) H. & C. (r). 



Hustedia morjuonii (Marcou) H. & C. (rr). 



Meekella striato-costata (Cox) White & St. John (r). 



Spirifer (Martinid) lineatus Martin (rr). 



Lophophyllum proliferu7n (McChesney) Meek (c). 



Zeacrinus {?) mucrospinus McChesney (rr). 



Fusulina cylindrica Fischer (rr). 



(?) Chceteteszi. carbonarius Worthen (r). 



Coral or sponge sp. Large one, genus not yet determined (rr). 



Crinoids. Fragments of stems (rr). 



Naticopsis nana M. & W. Small and imperfectly preserved (rr). 



On account of the faunal and lithologic character of the 

 rock the above exposures are referred to the Wabaunsee for- 

 mation. The quarryman reported an outcrop of coal in the bed 

 of the creek near Nehawka and estimated that the bottom of 



