Discovery of a Bone Bed at Phenixville, Penn. 45 
REPTILIAN REMAINS. 
eproliton, very abundant in black bituminous shales at Pheenixville, 
some of them containing fish remains. 
Foot-Tracks, Chelichnus Wyman cana Lea, on dull red Emmovigat 
sapere Isaac Lea, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phil., viii, 77, 1 
ipple marks are also found in the red shale, ie Mn 9 county, 
opposite Pheenixville. 
Section of Strata at Phenizxville Tunnel, Penn., beginning at Eastern entrance, 
and running about two- thirds through, dip Northwest, 
ft. in. 
Red s 5 
Green 6 
Meck ‘g,-reineevee shale, sone Saurian bones, coprolites in abund- 
stherias,—remains of ganoid fishes, and Cypris, there are cla ay 110 
aerials ag t one inch in F ickiets on upper part, this layer is 
full of fossi 
d and green i sade es, i re slightly calcareous, with traces of} |, 
Estherias and iron py 
lack aries shale with, scales of ganoid fishes, Estherias and Cypris, } 1 
fossils not very a j 
Dark green, hard a shale, full of clay concretions, traces of Cy- t 9 
WAG. F228: : 
Red micaceous sandst 710 
Brown peetone, with pac veins and quartz crystals 8 6 
Hard, compact, red and green shale, with nodular concretions of Li- 
er ubundantly dietributed all through it, forming a “ Hematitic 5 8 
lomerate,” 
Red sandstone, wit with remains of plants, 5 6 
gre 5.2 
Red san — Lapel and plants, the coprolites inclosing scales of } 10 
Grey sandstone with veins of carbonate of lime, 5 
toe grained, red and green variegated shale,...+....sesseseeceeees 24 
lack biteminode bee with Boating and fish remains in upper part, 6 
Grey compact fine-grain 11 
Olive Bron shale, with red veins, 1 
Red sha waned ae 
Clay cones ~ a layers, 1 inch eac 8 
ns of shea te and Stake cleavage which st 
tet ee 
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ante ati 
Fine pan 
Fine- grained co 
Vag’ or cavity : feet wide at eee of Tunnel, 21 feet high running to 
* es ct about two feet. “ge et _ of naga filled with red and 
a maa as estimated, 20 
act 
n shales, = Rs eee ee 
meee talcose shale vertical, 3 feet ot wide at bsg ha 4 ft, at top of Tunnel, 
me ine-grai mon compact, . re 
ar for 
Shale sy i 
jan with cla pin aca and oxyd o of iro 10 
7 € bed, full of Sau an bones, no other foss sils noticed, ce .sss0dsceue 6 
ri ack bituminous shale w ith Estherias a ind 6s coprolites, ...seeeeeeeeee 6 
ine-graine dita sandstone, full of stems of plants, teeeneee 6 
The “bone Ae ” is situated about 100 feet in the Tunnel from 
the western end, and is not more than 6 inches thick 
ments of Saurian. bones occur rather abundantly all through the 
