. Annual report. New York State Museum; Science; Science. REPORT OF THE STATE PALEONTOLOGIST I903 169 town. All the higher beds of Mt Ste Anne are composed of lime- stone conglomerates with very little jasper and as the cement is calcareous it falls away freely. It was noted by Ells that these pebbles and boulders of the conglomerate contain Siluric fossils. We have found in them Chonetes canadensis, Spirifer murchisoni, Megalanteris plicata, Meristella a r c u a t a and D a 1 m a n i t e s p e r c e e n s i s, all fossils of the. Limestone conglomerate, Mt Ste Anne Perce rock; also Halysites
. Annual report. New York State Museum; Science; Science. REPORT OF THE STATE PALEONTOLOGIST I903 169 town. All the higher beds of Mt Ste Anne are composed of lime- stone conglomerates with very little jasper and as the cement is calcareous it falls away freely. It was noted by Ells that these pebbles and boulders of the conglomerate contain Siluric fossils. We have found in them Chonetes canadensis, Spirifer murchisoni, Megalanteris plicata, Meristella a r c u a t a and D a 1 m a n i t e s p e r c e e n s i s, all fossils of the. Limestone conglomerate, Mt Ste Anne Perce rock; also Halysites catenularia, Heliolites, and in some sandstone pebbles a small Spirifer like S. vanuxemi. These fossil-bearing pebbles were found to the summit of the moun- tain even in the platform on which rests the shrine of Ste Anne. As this point is nearly 1400 feet above tide, the thickness of these red beds can not be less than 1200 feet and down along the shore land it seems to fill or to have stained all the depressions between the scarps of vertical limestone so that even on the shore when the soil is opened, blocks of the conglomerate are set Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original New York State Museum. Albany : University of the State of New York
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