WILMAMS AND 
KINDLE. 
SECTIONS IN VIRGINIA AND WEST VIRGINIA. 
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In the bed of the ravine just north of the sand and cherty beds 
(1376 B2), the black Chattanooga shale (1376 B3) is exposed. It has 
a deep black color and contains an abundant fauna composed of 
%ingula ligea and Schizobolus concentric"*. 
The sandy beds of the Hancock limestone are well exposed about 
the iron furnace, and just north of the subterranean mouth of Wild 
Cat Creek. Collections from this locality were lost in transit. 
On bank of Powell River by the woolen mill east of the village a 
section (1376 C) yielded the following fossils: 
Faunule of section 1376 C, on Poivell River. 
[c, common; r, rare.] 
1. Calceola cf. plicata (r). 
2. Leptsena rhomboidalis (r). 
3. Rhipidomella oblata (r). 
4. Gypidula pseudogaleata (c). 
5. Camarotcechia ventricosa (c). 
6. Rhynchonella acutiplicata (r). 
7. Spirifer cumberlandise (c). 
S. cyclopterus (r). 
Reticularia cf. fimbriate, (r) 
Meristella subquadrata (c). 
Phacops cristata (r). 
Dalmanites cf. anchiops (r) 
8. 
9. 
10. 
11. 
12. 
13. D. pleuroptyx (r). 
Along the river bank on the south side Mr. Williams collected from 
the reddish sandstone beds (1376 D), immediately below the Missis- 
sippian ("Lower Carboniferous") limestone, a fossil sponge which 
appears to be identical with the species described from the Waverly 
of Pennsylvania as Ectenodictya inflexa. 
From rocks in the fields and in place at Little Stone Gap (1376 E) 
Mr. Williams collected species representing the fauna from the coarse 
sandstone beds underlying the black shale. 
Faunule of section 1376 E, at Little Stone Gap, Va. 
[c, common; r, rare.] 
1. Zaphrentis sp. (r). 
2. Cyathophyllum sp. (r). 
3. Cystiphyllum sp. (r). 
4. Favosites sp. (r). 
5. Cladopora sp. (r). 
6. Gypidula pseudogaleata (c). 
7. Atrypa reticularis (r). 
8. Spirifer cyclopterus (r). 
9. S. perlamellosus var. (r). 
10. Meristella subquadrata (c). 
11. Cyrtolites sp. (r). 
12. Platyceras cf. gebhardi (c). 
13. Tentaculites sp. (r). 
14. Dalmanites cf. pleuroptyx ( r) 
BIG MOCCASIN GAP, VA. 
At Big Moccasin Gap the rocks dip from 30° to 40° SE. The strike 
is about S. 20° W., or approximately the direction of Clinch Mountain. 
The following section is based on the nearly continuous outcrops scon 
between the railroad switch at Big Moccasin Gap and the limestone 
southeast of Doctor Wallace's residence. 
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