. A dictionary of the fossils of Pennsylvania and neighboring states named in the reports and catalogues of the survey ... Paleontology. Discina newberryi. Hall. See Appendix. Discina nitida. ( Orhicula nitida. Phillips, Geol. of York- Xlll ^.^J^^L^^'^'^im^ shire, Vol. 2, plate 11, fig. 10 to 13.—Meek and Worthen, Illinois Reports, Vol. 5, plate 25, fig. 1). Collett's Indiana Rt. of 1883, page 121, plate 25, fig. 10, natural size^ a hand specimen showing several separate upper and lower valves. This little shell is abundant in the Kittanning coal shales at Cannelton, Pa., and through- out the
. A dictionary of the fossils of Pennsylvania and neighboring states named in the reports and catalogues of the survey ... Paleontology. Discina newberryi. Hall. See Appendix. Discina nitida. ( Orhicula nitida. Phillips, Geol. of York- Xlll ^.^J^^L^^'^'^im^ shire, Vol. 2, plate 11, fig. 10 to 13.—Meek and Worthen, Illinois Reports, Vol. 5, plate 25, fig. 1). Collett's Indiana Rt. of 1883, page 121, plate 25, fig. 10, natural size^ a hand specimen showing several separate upper and lower valves. This little shell is abundant in the Kittanning coal shales at Cannelton, Pa., and through- out the western States to Iowa.—XIII, Discina pleuritis. See Appendix, Discina seneca. (Hall, 1863, 16th An. Rt., Pal. N. Y., Viifis. 23 jA ^^^' 4^ P- ^^? plate 2, figs. 23, 24. Hamilton). Olaypole's Perry Co. lists. Preface to r2, p. xiii. Marcellus formation. Specimen 5-192, from Barnett's mills. Perry Co. and 223-4, H. IV, Pi,2, twenty-four specs, from Center mills, Madison township.— This may be White's Discina near the top of the MarceUus^ in G7, p. 76, 230, Montour region.—FZ/7 5. Discinse in Centre Co., in Oriskanyf, Ewing. (T4, p. 431.)— Also in Marcellus (T4, p. 432.) Discinae in Mercer Co., in Berca grit? I. C. White (QQQ, 158.)—Also in Bedford shales (p. 196.)—In Crawford Co., in Meadville upper limestone., in many places they abound; mostly undescribed species of Kinderhook (sub-carboniferous) aspect; as on Grass run at Meadville, and at Glendale (Q4, 83, 126, 140).—In the Orangeville shale near Meadville; at Smith's ravine; at Biier's (over the Corry SS.), Richmond township; at Pfeiffer's, Woodcock; at one mile W. of Venango village; and below Hayfield, they abound. At the last locality Discince and Lingulm together fill 88' of* Orangeville shale from top to bot- tom, with no other fossils present. (Q4, 170, 172,195,199, 202, 220.)—X Discina ? large; in Erie Co., Pa., among the mass of shells in the Spirifer bed over the Third Oil sandstone of the Carroll
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