INTRODUCTION 



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hundred yards or so to the west of the fossiliferous outcrop. Beneath 

 the shaly bed we found the Ohara zone 1 and under it the same unmis- 

 takably characteristic Eosiclare sandstone as on the west side of the vein. 

 In this manner, then, Professor Weller's statement regarding my mis- 

 takes at the Levias locality is completely negatived. 9 To place beyond all 

 reasonable doubt this matter of the occurrence of fossil species that 

 Weller mistakenly insists do not occur in the same formation, but which 

 I have found together not only here, but at a number of widely separated 

 localities, to be reported on later, I shall give the list of 30 species col- 

 lected in 1903 from the bed in question. The x preceding 11 of the 

 names signifies that the species so marked is also on a small slab 6 inches 

 long, 3 inches wide, and half an inch thick that was collected at or near 

 the original spot in 1921. 



List of Fossils from shaly Bed 30 to 35 Feet above the Rosiclare Sandstone and 



about 50 Feet beneath the Bethel Sandstone, about one-half Mile 



southeast of Levias, Kentucky, on east side of Miller Mine 



Triplophyllum spinulosum 

 Amplexus geniculatus 

 Dizygocrinus cf. superstes 

 x Platycrinus cf. penicillus 

 x Pachylocrinus cf. scoparius 

 Taxocrinus cf. huntsvillw 

 Pentremites pulchellus 

 P. cf. butt si 



Fistulipora cf. excellens 

 F. sp. 2 



Eridopora cf. punctipora 

 E. sp. 2 



Stenopora tuberculata 

 Lioclema? araneum 

 L. aff. araneum 



x Fenestella cestriensis 



Fenestella elevatipora 

 x F. serratula 



x F. tenax 



x F. n. sp. (same in Missouri) 



x Polypora spinulifera 

 x P. cf. approximata 



Rhombopora cf. tabulata 

 x Cystodictya labiosa 



Glyptopora punctipora 



Orthothetes kaskaskiensis? 

 x Diaphragmus montesana 



Spiriferina transversa 

 x 8. subspinosa 



Cliothyridina sublamellosa 



Pugnoides ottumiva 



Phillip sia sp. 



Except the first two of the crinoids and the Pugnoides ottumwa, which 

 are common Fredonia species that Weller claims he has never found 



9 Mr. Butts has kindly volunteered the following signed statement : "I am glad to 

 substantiate Mr. Ulrich's published statement regarding the horizon from which he ob- 

 tained slabs bearing Platycrinus penicillus together with Amplexus geniculatus and 

 other fossils usually regarded as characteristic of the Shetlerville beds of the Upper 

 Ohara. A thin layer of shaly limestone of the same character as the specimens referred 

 to by Mr. TJlrich occurs at the place described by him, about 30 feet above the Rosiclare 

 sandstone. Though no Amplexus was found in the small exposure, Platycrinus peni- 

 cillus, associated with other species usually found in the Shetlerville formation with 

 that coral, was found, and there is no reason to doubt that this layer is the source of 

 the fossiliferous slabs found many years ago by Mr. Ulrich in this immediate vicinity 

 and reported on by him in 1917.— Charles Butts." 



