WILLIAMS A 
KINDLE. 
ND ] SECTIONS IN VIRGINIA AND WEST VIRGINIA. 39 
The westerly dip of these varigated shales carries them below the 
level of the railroad about a mile and a half west of Caldwell, and the 
Mississippian ("Lower Carboniferous") limestone appears above 
them. 
COVINGTON, ALLEGHANY COUNTY, VA. 
The time spent at Covington was devoted mainly to collecting from 
the beds of the following section: 
Section 1382 B, one-half mile southeast of the blast furnace on the north bank of Jackson 
River. 
Feet. 
4. Black carbonaceous shale ( Romney ) 30 
3. Greenish-gray shale 15 
2. Coarse sandstone ( ' ' Oriskany " ) 3-6 
1. Limestone (Lewistown ) 15-25 
The limestone cliff (1) on river bank, one-half mile below iron fur- 
nace, Covington, Va., contains the following species: 
Faunule of zone 1 of section 1382 B, near Covington, Va. 
[a, abundant; c, common; r, rare.] 
1. Chsetetes sp. (c). 
2. Crinoid stem (r). 
3. Lichenalia sp. (c). 
4. Stropheodonta sp. (r). 
5. Leptsena rhomboidalis (a). 
6. Orthis sp. (r). 
7. Rhipidomella oblata (c). 
8. Gypidula pseudogaleata (r)' 
9. Uncinulus mutabilis (c). 
10. U. nobilis (r). 
11. Eatonia peculiaris (c) . 
12. Rhynchonella sulciplicata (r). 
13. Rensselseria sequiradiata (r). 
14. Spirifer concinnus (a). 
15. S. murchisoni (c). 
16. Trematospira multistriata (r). 
17. Meristella subquadrata (c). 
18. Avicula sp. (r). 
19. Platyceras robustum (r). 
20. Platyostoma ventricosum (?) (r). 
The coarse sandstone (2) contains the following species: 
Faunule of zone 2 of section 1382 B, near Covington, Va. 
[a, abundant; c, common.] 
1. Dalmanella planiconvexa (r). 
2. Rhipidomella muscnlosa (r). 
3. R. cf. oblata (r). 
4. Rensselseria ovoides (a). 
5. Spirifer cf. arenosus (r). 
6. Spirifer murchisoni (c). 
7. Meristella lata (r). 
The greenish shale (3) yielded the following forms: 
Faunule of zone 3 of section 1382 B, near Covington, Va. 
[c, common; r, rare]. 
1. Zaphrentis sp. (r). 
2. Schizophoria cf. striatula (r). 
3. Atrypa spinosa (r). 
4. Ambocoelia umbonata (c). 
5. Bellerophon sp. (r). 
6. Pleurotomaria sp. (r). 
7. Conulariasp. (r). 
8. Phacops rana (c). 
