Note 9 — Chapter XXX
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At Capes Leidy, Frazer, and other points of the coast I subsequently obtained a considerable collection of fossils,—all of which were forwarded to the Smithsonian Institution, at Washington, soon after my return home. Unhappily, the finest of them were lost after having been sent from Philadelphia; but a sufficient number of specimens were found among the geological collections to enable Prof. F. B. Meek, to whom I intrusted them, to establish some interesting points of comparison. In a short paper published in Silliman's Journal, for July, 1865, Prof. Meek enumerates and describes twelve species. Some of the specimens were imperfect, and their specific character could not be determined. The list is as follows:—
1. Zaphrentis Hayesii.
2. Syringopora * * * *.
3. Favosites * * * *.
4. Strophomena Rhomboidalis.
5. Strophodonta Headleyana.
6. Strophodonta Beckii.
7. Rhynchonella * * * *.
8. Cœlospira concava.
9. Spirifer * * * *.
10. Loxonema Kanei.
11. Orthoceras * * * *.
12. Illænus * * * *.
Prof. Meek makes this observation:—"From the foregoing list, it is believed that geologists will agree that the rocks at this highest locality at which fossils have ever been collected, belong to the Upper Silurian era. The most remarkable fact, however, is, that they are nearly all very closely allied to, and some of them apparently undistinguishable from species found in the Catskill shaly Limestone of the New York Lower Helderberg group."