Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia: 1887
My friend, Mr. Otto Klotz, in charge of the Astronomical work of the Canada Dominion, while engaged with geodetic measurements accidentally discovered this very interesting locality, which furnishes an abundance of well-preserved primor dia} fossils, particularly Trilobites, imbedded within a dark gray slate rock, of about 300 or 400 feet in thickness. Above the slate succeeds a large series of dolomitic rock beds, and below a very large belt of quartzites crops out; although the immediate contact of the quartzite with the slate is not seen in the locality. The specimens collected on this spot Mr. Klotz had the kindness to send to me. He gave others to the University of Michigan, his Alma Mater. Many of these fossils are remarkably well pre served, and nearly all of them are believed to be undescribed forms.
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