﻿Report 
  of 
  the 
  State 
  Geologist. 
  341 
  

  

  797 
  The 
  shales 
  are 
  still 
  black, 
  very 
  bituminous 
  and 
  compact, 
  

   with 
  an 
  irregular 
  cross-bed 
  fracture. 
  

  

  At 
  803 
  is 
  a 
  layer 
  containing 
  Orbiculoidea 
  minuta 
  in 
  great 
  

   quantities, 
  and 
  Goniatites 
  imiangularis, 
  Pleurotomaria 
  rugu- 
  

   lata, 
  Styliolina 
  fissarella, 
  Productella 
  spinulicosta 
  very 
  abund- 
  

   antly; 
  Modieila 
  pygmcea 
  and 
  Liopteria 
  Icevis 
  are 
  also 
  common 
  

   at 
  the 
  same^horizon. 
  

  

  Elsewhere^ 
  ^fossils 
  are 
  rare, 
  only 
  Orthoceras 
  subulatum 
  and 
  

   Better 
  ophorfJLeda 
  ^having 
  been 
  observed. 
  

  

  