THE 
Natural Science Journal. 
VOL. I. 
NEW BEDFORD, MASS., APRIL, 1897. 
No. 2. 
Department of ©eologg. 
Prof. G. K. GREENE, Editor. 
Imii (S. A. Miller) ; Halopia grandis 
23 West Market Street, Neav Albany, Ind. 
NOTES ON SOME INDIANA FOSSILS 
Prof. G. K. Greene. 
BOUT twenty years ago, my atten¬ 
tion was called to w'hat I then 
supposed to be Clay Stones, by Col. T. 
G. Morrison, of New Albany, Ind., who 
had collected them on the side of the 
Knobs w^est of the city. At the time 
Col. Morrison pronounced them copro- 
lites but I was not fully convinced that 
they were. 
Two years later I was requested by 
the Colonel to call at his house, and in¬ 
spect some finds he had recently made, 
and to my surprise I found he had col¬ 
lected several dozen well defined copro- 
lites, and coprolitic concretions contain¬ 
ing concularias and two or three species 
of bones and teeth of fishes. 
To Col. Morrison is due the credit of 
bringing these beds and their contents to 
the notice of collectors. 
I have made frequent visits to different 
points of the Knobs, and have succeeded 
in finding many new species of brachi- 
pods, gasteropods and cephalopods. 
Among those published are Rynclionella 
greenana (Ulrich) ; Murchisonia indian- 
ensis (S. A. Miller) ; Cydomena piddiel- 
(S. A. Miller) ; and Ganiatites greenei 
(S. A. Miller.) A number of unde¬ 
scribed species are now in my collection. 
Five miles west of New Albany at 
Edwardsville, where there are extensive 
quarries in the Keokuk and Warsaw lime¬ 
stones, fish teeth in a fine state of preser¬ 
vation can be found, imbedded in the 
rock. They frequently occur in the clay 
partings of the Warsaw limestone, associ¬ 
ated with the crinoids, blastoids, brachi- 
pods and three or four species of 
zaphrentis. 
STEOPHOMENA AND THE TYPE OP 
THE GENUS 
By S. a. Miller. 
ROF. HALL, referring to Stropho- 
mena, in Palaeontology of New 
York, Vol. Vm., p. 246, says: 
“ Probably no generic term among the 
brachiopoda has given rise to a greater 
diversity of expression of opinion among 
authors as to its value and application.” 
He then proceeds to show that Rafin- 
esque made use of the word, without 
definition or illustration, in 1820, and so 
did Defrance, in 1824. That, in 1825, 
de Blainville used the word, with a short 
obscure definition, illustrated by a dorsal 
and ventral view of Strophomena rugosa, 
Rafinesque. Prof. Hall reproduces these 
