312 D. WHITE — POTTSVILLE SERIES ALONG NEW RIVER, W. VA. 



noted that the coal outcrop and the upper Piney Creek conglomerate are 

 respectively at nearly the same distance, barometric readings, above the 

 Chesapeake and Ohio Railroad at Stone Cliff and at a point a little to 

 the east of Beurys ; so also at Rush Run and Cunard ; or at the Thur- 

 mond mine and a point probably between Nuttall and Keeneys creek. 



Paleontologic Relations. 

 general statement. 



The general affinity of the plants collected by Professor Fontaine from 

 the New River coals with those in the Sharon coal of Ohio has already 

 been stated by Professors Fontaine and AVhite. A portion of the mate- 

 rial listed below comes from one or two of the former author's localities. 



A preliminary examination of a collection recently made in the typi- 

 cal section of the Pottsville in the southern anthracite field of Pennsyl- 

 vania and a comparison of it with that from New river shows that the 

 floras are essentially the same, they being largely identical in the corre- 

 sponding portions of the sections. In other words, the plants found in 

 the greater portion of the " Conglomerate series " on New river are Potts- 

 ville plants and belong to stages represented in the Pottsville section of 

 Pennsylvania. I have found the same to be true of the Great Flat Top 

 Mountain and Tug River sections farther south. 



FOSSILIFEEOUS HORIZONS. 



Before proceeding further it is best to pass briefly over the localities 

 from which plants were obtained, referring at the same time to the strati- 

 graphic position of the fossiliferous beds in the accompanying figures. 



The lowest beds from which plants were gathered are the strata imme- 

 diately above and below the Piney Creek conglomerate, comprising the 

 base of Professor Fontaine's " Conglomerate series " (see A and B, figure 1). 

 Scanty material was gathered from these beds on Piney creek. Numerous 

 fragments, poor in species, were gathered from or near an horizon about 

 370 feet above this conglomerate on Piney creek, at the mouth of Ar- 

 buckle creek, and near Rush Run (see C, figure 1). Specimens were col- 

 lected at from 60 to 100 feet below the Quinnimont-Fire Creek coal on 

 Mill creek, Piney creek (see D and E, figure 1), and at Nuttall (see D and E, 

 figure 2). The Quinnimont-Fire Creek coal plants came from Quinni- 

 mont, Princes, Alaska, Beech wood, Stone Cliff, Dim mock, Rush Run, 

 Beurys, Red Ash, Fire Creek (see F, figure 1), and Nuttall (see F, figure 

 2). Fossils were gathered at an horizon, about 100 feet higher, at Crow 

 post-office, on Mill creek, and on Loup creek (see G, figure 1), and at 

 Nuttall (see G, figure 2). Above the upper Piney Creek conglomerate 



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