May, 1909.] The Bedford Fauna at Indian Fields, Ky. 
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stratigraphy of the Lower Waverly of Kentucky was unravelled. 
Schuchertella morsei is closely related to Orihothetes minutus, 
Clarke, from the lower limestone in the Mareellus shales of New 
York, and may be a diminutive descendant of Streptorhynchus 
flabellum, Whitfield, from the Columbus limestone of Ohio. Its 
relations to Orihothetes minutus , Cummings, from the Salem 
limestone of Indiana, are less evident. Septa and dental plates 
are absent in the pedicel valve, the hinge area is rather high, but 
the beak is not distorted and there is no evidence of attachment 
of the shell by cementation. 
Schuchertella herricki, sp. nov. (Fig. 16). 
Shell usually transversely elongate, but sometimes attaining a length 
which is almost as great as the width. The valves were thin and are 
preserved as strongly flattened specimens which suggest that originally 
the brachial valve was gently convex and the pedicel valve either flat or 
slightly concave. In one pedicel valve the arching deltidium and the 
moderately elevated cardinal area are preserved. The casts of the 
brachial valve show the impressions made by the crural plates, the pos¬ 
terior border of the flattened cardinal process, and a trace of a median 
ridge traversing the space occupied by the muscular impressions. Radiat¬ 
ing striae narrow and numerous, varying between 5 and 7 in a width of 
2 mm., counting both the more prominent striae and those which evi¬ 
dently have been intercalated later. While the difference in size of the 
radiating striae is readily perceptible under a lens, they appear subequal 
to the unaided eye. Concentric striae very fine and visible only under 
a lens. Width of an average specimen, 22 mm.; length, 16 mm.; height 
of cardinal area, a little over 1 mm. 
Abundant in the thin representative of the Bedford-Berea 
about a mile northeast of Indian Fields, Kentucky, along the 
road running from the Brownlow Bruner farm on Lulbegrud 
Creek northwestward toward Kiddville. Named in honor of 
Prof. C. L. Herrick, whose investigations, on the Paleontology of 
the Waverly of Ohio contributed materially to our knowledge. 
Chonetes sp. (Fig. 10). 
A small species, 6.2 mm. in width and 4.o mm. in length, with 5 to 6 
radiating striations in a width of 1 mm. In one specimen, a narrow 
median striation extends along the base of a narrow median groove from 
near the beak to within a short distance of the anterior margin of the 
shell, somewhat resembling a figure of Chonetes coronata, published by 
Hall and Clarke (Volume VIII, Paleontology of New York). Traces of 
the brachial ridges may be seen, but not enough is known for identification. 
In the thin representative of the Bedford-Berea at Indian 
Fields, Kentucky. Apparently the same species is found in the 
corresponding layer at Irvine, Kentucky. 
Productella sp. Very much flattened impressions of the 
interiors of the brachial valves of a small species of Productella , 
usually not over 8 mm. in length are not uncommon in the thin 
representative of the Bedford-Berea at Indian Fields, Kentucky. 
Much smaller specimens, not exceeding 2.5 mm. in length, found 
at the same horizon at Irvine, Kentucky, may belong to the 
genus Strophalosia. 
