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< o.vrKMU'TloNS TO DEVONIAN PALEONTOLOGY. [bull.244. 
JUNCTION CITY, BOYLE COUNTY, KY. 
The black shale outcrops at a number of places in the vicinity of 
Junction City. It extends below drainage, so that the underlying beds 
were not seen. The following section indicates the stratigraphic 
relations: 
Section 1374 -b at Lone Knob, near Junction City, Ky. 
3. Shaly sandstone 
2. Blue clay shale. 
1. Black shale 
Feet. 
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CRAB ORCHARD, LINCOLN COUNTY, KY. 
The Devonian limestone appears to be entirely absent in the vicinity 
of Crab Orchard. The following connected section includes the lowest 
beds observed in the vicinity of the springs and those outcropping in 
the knobs southwest of town: 
Section 1375 A, near <'r<tl> Orchard, Ky. 
Feet. 
5. Shaly sandstone ( ' ' Knobstone " 50 
4. Shaly crinoidal limestone 3-4 
3. Shaly sandstone and clay shale ( partly covered ) 100 
2. Black shale 35 
1 . Buff to brownish fine-grained sandstone 10 
No fossils were found in the tine-grained sandstone below the black 
shale. 
The shaly sandstone (zone 5 of section 1375 A). 2 miles southwest of 
Crab Orchard, furnished the following faunule: 
Faunule of zone r> of section 1375 A, near < 'rah Orchard, Ky. 
[c, common; r, rare.] 
1. Zaphrentis sp. (r). 
2. Chonetes illinoisensis (c). 
3. Productus sp. (r). 
4. Camarotcechia cf. contracta (r), 
5. Spiriferina subelliptica (c). 
»i. Spirifer mortonanus (c). 
7. S. suborbicularis (c). 
8. Reticulata pseudolineata (r). 
0. Syringothyris texta (c). 
10. Ptychospira cf . sexplicata (r). 
11. Athyris lamellosa (c). 
12. Sphenotus sp. (r). 
13. Edmondia sp. nov. (r). 
14. Conocardium pulchelhnn (c). 
15. Cypricardinia sp. (c). 
1(5. Loxonema sp. nov. (r). 
17. Platyceras cf. herzeri (r). 
18. P.sp. (c). 
19. Proetus auriculatus (r). 
20. Phaethonides sp. (r). 
