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(b.) Clark's Mill section {fossil beds.) 



Silicified crinoid stems, Ac. 

 8' Limestone beds with chert in the middle. 

 1' Orthis oblata, Hall, rather abundant. 

 3' Bed with Tentaculites gyracanthus, Eaton. 

 1' Bed lull of Cladopor a fibrosa? 



6" Bed with Beyrichia granulata, Hall. 

 1' Bed with small Chaetites? and T. gyracanthus. 

 8' Bed with Leptaena rugosa and Calymene. 

 6' Rubbly bed with Stromatopora and Astrocerium. 

 3' Soft shaly bed with Aulopora ? and Sphaerocystites multv- 



fasciatus, Hall. 

 5' Soft shaly beds full of Rhynchonella formosa. 



" mutabilis. 



Spirifera Vanuxemi. 

 Cornulites, 

 3' Thin-bedded limestone with layers of Murchisonia 

 4' Coarse limestone full of Beyrichia notata, Hall. 



Other exposures. 



Beside the typical exposure at Clark's mill the following 

 should be noted :— 



(a) A small quarry on the top of the hill above Mr. Ar- 

 nold's farm-house, a mile west of Bloomfield, shows the 

 Tentaculite and Meristella beds abounding in fossils ; thus — 



Section of Tentaculite beds at exposure (a.) 



2' 0" Thin shaly limestones— silicified Brachiopods. 



2' 0" Thin limestone— fossils not abundant, Tentaculites. 



6" Limestone with small polyzoa and shells— Tentaculites. 

 5' 0" Thin-bedded limestones with Brachiopods and Tentaculites, 

 a Trematopora ? bed near middle, and a black bed cram- 

 med with brachiopods about 1 foot from base. 

 Rough rubbly shaly stone flaking off, full of Meristella 

 laevis much crushed. 



(b) In the woods on the top of Limestone ridge north of 

 New Bloomfield and on the old road to Newport is a small 

 quarry also showing the Meristella beds. 



(c) The Meristella beds may also be seen in the wood a 

 few hundred feet east of Mr. Adam Clouser's house. 



(d) A small show of some of the beds occurs on the road 

 to Xewport near the top of the ridge. 



(e) The fossils of the limestone shale occur along the top 



