JUNE, 1906. DEVONIAN FossiLSs—SLOcom. 259 
a much larger size than at Moscow, or at any of the other outcrops 
at Bethany, with the possible exception of Bg. Many of the shells 
of this species have parasites attached to them. Among these para- 
sites occur three species of bryozoans, worm tubes, and an inarticu- 
late brachiopod. Below this layer rich in brachiopods, the shale is 
comparatively free from fossils. A few specimens of Pleurodictyum 
stylopora were the only fossils obtained here by the writer. 
B6 is situated on the roadside between the tile factory and the 
station. It is an outcrop of a hard, black shale, lying quite a little 
higher than either Bs, B7, or Bg, but whether it is above the Encrinal 
limestone, the writer was unable to determine. This outcrop was 
quite small and comparatively unimportant. 
B7 marks a number of exposures along the banks of White Creek, 
a short distance southeast of East Bethany. This locality afforded 
corals, brachiopods, etc. Monroe* reports finding Goniatites in pyrite 
nodules at this place, but none was secured by the writer. 
B8 is located a mile and a half west of B4, at the point where a 
small tributary of Tonawanda Creek runs near the track. Along 
the banks of the tributary are piles of weathered shale in which 
quantities of bryozoans, corals, and gastropods were found. Just 
west of here where the road crosses the track, a cut affords a good 
exposure of a black laminated shale similar to certain upper layers 
at Moscow, which is practically barren of fossils; but on top of this, 
is a thin layer in which some large brachiopods were found. The 
shale near the brook does not appear tobe im situ, and probably 
was brought there at the time the railroad was built, from a small 
cut just east of its present position, where a similar shale 1s found. 
The Encrinal limestone is exposed in the bed of this brook, with a 
moderate dip towards the west. This would determine both the 
black and the fossiliferous shales to belong to the upper group, or 
Moscow shale. While these beds are much lower topographically 
than those at B4, they are undoubtedly higher geologically. 
Bg is found by following White Creek up stream from near the 
tile factory, to several exposures where brachiopods abound. As 
might be expected from the proximity of their location, the fossils 
found at these outcrops are similar to those of B5. These outcrops 
appear to be the upper portions of the beds whose base is exposed 
in the clay pit at Bs. 
WinpoM is situated about 8 miles southeast of. the business center 
* Bull. Wis. Nat. Hist. Soc., Vol. 2, p. 57. 
