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designates as its uppermost bed, crop out in Cazenovia creek a 

 quarter of a mile below L,ein's Park. A long exposure begins 

 below Gardenville in Buffalo creek and extends up to the dam at 

 Blossom. 



Fossils are not abundant in the Cardiff shale. In the lower 

 beds immediately above the Stafford Miss Wood has found the 

 following : 



Ceratopora Dichotoma Grabau. 

 Brachiopods : 



Chonetes lepidus Hall. 

 Liorhynchus limitare Vanuxem. 

 Atrypa reticularis L,inne. 

 Ambocoelia utnbonata Conrad. 

 Meristella barrisi Hall. 

 Pterochaenia fragilis Hall. 

 Styliolina fissurella Hall. 

 Orthoceras aegea Hall. 

 Phacops rana Green. 



Dr. A. Grabau adds to this the following from the Bay View 

 and Athol Springs cliffs : 



Tentaculites gracilistriatus Hall. 

 Lunulicardium fragile Hall. 

 Nautilus marcellensis Vanuxem. 

 Chonetes mucronata Hall. 

 A few carbonized plant remains. 



Skaneateles Shale. 



This name was applied by Vanuxem to the shales exposed at 

 the northern end of Skaneateles lake. Hall gave it no name, 

 merely referring to it as " an olive often bluish fissile shale." Dr. 

 Grabau calls it the "Transition shale." 



The Skaneateles shale lies between the Cardiff shale below 

 and the Dudlowville shale above. It is the lowest member of the 

 Hamilton beds. In Erie county it is a mass of light gray shales 

 from 30 to 60 feet thick. Its lowest beds are dark, almost black, 

 but it becomes lighter upward and its uppermost beds are a light, 



