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BUFFALO SOCIETY OF NATURAL SCIENCES
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A section at the old George W. Defenbaugh quarry southeast of Kokomo, Indiana, shows the exact relation between the eurypterid-bearing layers and the brachiopod bed (67, 7).

FEET INCHES
Heavy bedded fossiliferous limestone 1 8
Chert, thin, bedded, with ostracods 1
Thin bedded fossiliferous limestone 2
Base of brachiopod horizon
Darker layer of limestone 2
Thin bedded limestone 10
Heavier bedded limestone, but thinly laminated 1 4
Thin bedded limestone 9
Darker limestone 3
Layer with merostomata

The line of reasoning which was adopted to show that the Bertie was a clastic, river-borne deposit which was spread out on the land

Fig. 7. Section Southeast of Kokomo, Indiana, Showing Distinctness of Brachiopod and Eurypterid Horizons
(Data from Foerste)