Previously described "sporelike fossils" in a black silty shale in the Devonian Montebello sandstone, N. of Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, were re-studied and found to be flattened chamosite ooelites. The environment in which the ooelites formed was marine, slightly reducing, having a small clastic influx, and with currents strong enough to agitate sand grains.

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