﻿THE 
  FAUNA 
  OF 
  THE 
  NIAGARA 
  GROUP, 
  IN 
  CENTRAL 
  

  

  INDIANA. 
  

  

  (■> 
  By 
  JAMES 
  HALL. 
  

  

  A 
  paper 
  upon 
  this 
  subject 
  was 
  read 
  before 
  the 
  Albany 
  

   Institute, 
  April 
  29th, 
  1862, 
  and 
  published 
  in 
  Volume 
  IV 
  of 
  its 
  

   Transactions. 
  An 
  abstract 
  was 
  issued, 
  as 
  a 
  separate 
  pamphlet 
  

   under 
  date 
  of 
  May 
  2d, 
  1863, 
  entitled, 
  "Notice 
  of 
  some 
  New 
  , 
  

   Species 
  of 
  Fossils 
  from 
  a 
  Locality 
  of 
  the 
  Niagara 
  group 
  in 
  

   Indiana, 
  with 
  a 
  List 
  of 
  Identified 
  Species 
  from 
  the 
  Same 
  

   Placed 
  

  

  A 
  revision 
  of 
  this 
  paper, 
  with 
  description 
  of 
  additional 
  

   species, 
  was 
  in 
  preparation 
  at 
  the 
  time 
  the 
  Documentary 
  

   edition 
  of 
  this 
  report 
  was 
  being 
  printed, 
  but 
  owing 
  to 
  the 
  

   requirement 
  for 
  publishing 
  the 
  volume 
  of 
  " 
  Illustrations 
  of 
  

   Devonian 
  Fossils" 
  during 
  the 
  same 
  year 
  (1876), 
  it 
  was 
  

   impossible 
  to 
  complete 
  this 
  paper 
  in 
  time 
  for 
  the 
  publication 
  

   of 
  that 
  report. 
  The 
  plates 
  illustrating 
  the 
  fossils, 
  with 
  names 
  

   of 
  species, 
  and 
  explanations 
  of 
  figures 
  having 
  been 
  prepared, 
  

   were 
  issued 
  with 
  that 
  edition. 
  Since 
  no 
  copies 
  of 
  the 
  report 
  

   were 
  ordered 
  for 
  the 
  State 
  museum 
  until 
  1878, 
  it 
  has 
  given 
  an 
  

   opportunity 
  of 
  revising 
  the 
  published 
  matter 
  of 
  1863, 
  with 
  

   additional 
  knowledge 
  derived 
  from 
  subsequent 
  collections, 
  and 
  

   of 
  adding 
  descriptions 
  of 
  the 
  Corals 
  and 
  Bryozoa 
  not 
  included 
  

   in 
  the 
  original 
  paper. 
  

  

  The 
  species 
  herein 
  described 
  and 
  figured 
  are 
  all 
  from 
  a 
  sin- 
  , 
  t] 
  

   gle 
  locality 
  on 
  Conn's 
  Creek 
  in 
  the 
  town 
  of 
  Waldron, 
  De- 
  

   catur 
  county, 
  Indiana, 
  where 
  the 
  calcareous 
  shales 
  of 
  the 
  

   group, 
  with 
  some 
  thin 
  seams 
  of 
  limestone 
  occur. 
  Many 
  of 
  the 
  

   same 
  species 
  are 
  found 
  in 
  more 
  calcareous 
  beds 
  at 
  the 
  neigh- 
  

   boring 
  locality 
  of 
  St. 
  Paul 
  in 
  the 
  same 
  county, 
  and 
  also 
  at 
  

   localities 
  farther 
  south 
  on 
  Conn's 
  Creek. 
  

  

  