FOSSILS FOUND AT PREDICTED POINTS. 



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With this thesis in mind, I secured the assistance of Mr. S. Ward Loper, 

 of Middletovvn, formerly of Durham, Connecticut, where he had made ex- 

 plorations of certain fossil-bearing beds of black shale, and from which he had 

 obtained a large collection of Triassic fishes and plants. Many of the fishes 

 described in Professor Newberry's monograph were of his collecting. It was 

 clear that two of his localities were simply different outcrops of a single bed 

 of black shale in the Totoket block, about a quarter way from the anterior 

 trap sheet up through the anterior shales to the main trap sheet. This will 

 be called the anterior black shale. Search for the same shale bed was then 



Figure S— Sketch Map of about ten Square Miles Area to illustrate the Monocline near Meriden, 



Connecticut. 



Showing parts of the Higby {H), Chauncey (C), Lamentation {L) and Quarry {Q) hloeks. The 

 known localities of the fos.siliferous anterior shales in this area are at the northern edge of the 

 Highy block (i*'!) and northern part of tlie Lamentation block (F''); and of the posterior, near the 

 northern side of the Higby block {F^). Beds of ashes and bombs are found in the anterior trap at 

 A, and contacts of the trap sheets with the overlying sandstones at X. 



begun in the blocks next toward the northwest, and, although much embar- 

 rassed by the drift that so generally occupies the anterior valley in which 

 the black shale crops out, we were successful in finding it at three other 

 points, and in securing fossils from it by digging to a moderate depth. It 

 occupies essentially the same position in the stratified series at all these 



LXII— Bum,. Geol. See. Am., Vol. 2, 1890. 



