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NOTICES AND DESCRIPTIONS OF FOSSILS, FROM THE MAR¬ 
SHALL GROUP 112 OF THE WESTERN STATES, WITH NOTES 
ON FOSSILS FROM OTHER FORMATIONS. 
By Alexander Winchell, Director op the Geological Survey op » 
Michigan. 
The following notices and descriptions were drawn up in March last, 
hut their publication has been delayed by pressing and unremitting en¬ 
gagements, which continued, very unexpectedly, through the entire 
Summer. 
These studies are based chiefly on specimens from Tennessee and Ohio. 
The Tennessee specimens were submitted (with others) by Prof. James 
M. Safford, about three years ago, and the conclusions have very recently 
been announced in his Report on the Geology of that State. The Ohio 
specimens consist of fossils communicated from time to time, during two 
or three years past, by Rev, Herman Herzer, and of a series of fossils col¬ 
lected by Prof. E. Andrews, along a section extending from the Blue 
Limestone, near Cincinnati, along the Ohio river to the Coal Measures , 113 
and others collected in Central Ohio and western Pennsylvania. 
In order that the reference^ in the following pages may be made intel¬ 
ligible, I subjoin the section communicated by Prof. Andrews: 
Section along Ohio river from Adams to Lawrence counties , Ohio. 
Coal Measures. 
( Measures embracing beds of Iron Ore. 
No. 1 .1 Coal, ) 
(.Underlying measures, ) . 
-nt 9 j Coarse-grained sandstone of Coal Measures, ) 
1N0 ‘ \ Clays and Iron Ore, ) 
207 ft. 
,157 “ 
, 88 “ 
“Sub-carboniferous Limestone” of Ky., overlying the | 
“ Knobs” of the Kentucky Reports, j 
46 “ 
Waverly Series. 
No. 4. 
f Sandstones containing, above, marine plants, cauda-galli 
I and other fucoids, and near the bottom, nodules of Kid¬ 
ney Iron Ore. At the bottom is a mass of sandstone and 
1 Iron Ore embracing, probably, the fossils of Sciotoville, 
| Flagg’s Hill, &c.258 “ 
[Sandstones.114 “ 
£ Fossiliferous ferruginous sandstone of Rockville, 1 
No. 5. < Sandstones with Fucoids, > 127“ 
( Shales containing the Goniatites described by Dr. Hildreth, ) 
f “City Ledge,” 5 ft. above black shale. 4 “ 
^r 0 g j Waverly black shale. Fish-bed, Lingulasubspatulata, Lis- 
’ J cina capaxt Ganoid scales, &c. 16 “ 
[Lower Waverly beds with Fucoids..127 “ 
112 For other papers by the author, on the Geology and Paleontology of this group, see “ First Bien¬ 
nial Report” of the Geological Survey of Michigan, 1860; Amer. Jour. Sci. and Arts f2J vol. xxxiii, 
p. 352: ib. xxxv, p. 61; Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci., Phil., Sept., 1862, p. 4C5; ib. Jan., 1863, p. 2; ib- July 
1865; Pro. Ainer. Phil. Soc., No. 81, (vol. xi) 1869, p. 57: Geology of Tenn., 1869, pp. 364-5 and 440. 
113 This section was read in substance, at the Chicagp meeting of the American Association, in 
Aug., 1868. 
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