. A dictionary of the fossils of Pennsylvania and neighboring states named in the reports and catalogues of the survey ... Paleontology. ACTI. V/n c. Actinodesma erectum. (Avicula erecta, Conrad, 1842, Jour. Acad. Nat. Sci., Phila. Vol. 8, pi. 12, fig. 5. Eedrawn by G. B. Simpson.—Hamilton group.) Well preserved specimens found by J. J. Stevenson in the river gaps of Fayette and Westmoreland counties. Pa., and determined by Prof. James Hall, are especially interesting, as arguing the thinn- Conry'^^mmSS^-^.A MS Mil,12 Ing out of the overlying Cattskill, and at the same time proving this fossil


. A dictionary of the fossils of Pennsylvania and neighboring states named in the reports and catalogues of the survey ... Paleontology. ACTI. V/n c. Actinodesma erectum. (Avicula erecta, Conrad, 1842, Jour. Acad. Nat. Sci., Phila. Vol. 8, pi. 12, fig. 5. Eedrawn by G. B. Simpson.—Hamilton group.) Well preserved specimens found by J. J. Stevenson in the river gaps of Fayette and Westmoreland counties. Pa., and determined by Prof. James Hall, are especially interesting, as arguing the thinn- Conry'^^mmSS^-^.A MS Mil,12 Ing out of the overlying Cattskill, and at the same time proving this fossil to have lived to the end of the Chemung age. See Report KKK, 1878, pp. 309, Actinodesma subrectum. ( Wliitfield'^s DesG. Weio Spec^ ., Foss,,^ Ohio), /^2L Drawn by Simpson from specimen 59- B. 18, in Clay- pole's collec- tions from Per- ry Co. Pa. See preface to Rt. F 2, page xiv. (It closely re- sembles Glyp- todesma erec- tiim^ Hall, Pal. N. Y., Vol. V, part 1, plate 12, fig. ^,)—Ying, Hamilton for- mation. Perry Co., 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 Lesley, J. P. (J. Peter), 1819-1903; Pennsylvania. Board of Commissioners for the Second Geological Survey. Harrisburg, Board of Commissioners for the Geological Survey


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