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Vol. I, No. 7. | SEPTEMBER, 1902. | { Whole Series, |
{ Vol. XI, No. 7. |
Being a continuation of the foregoing lists of Rogers, publishedin this journal, vol. IX, No. 4, pp. 232–254.[1]
The present paper deals with the fauna of the rocks, beginningat the base of what Haworth has called the “Shawneeformation”[2] and continuing upward to the top of the Cottonwoodlimestone. The strata are treated in ascending order.It must be borne in mind that it is the object of these papers tobring out the fauna of the rocks of the Kansas Coal Measuresin sufficient detail to establish time divisions on a paleontologicalbasis. These lists are, of course, incomplete for thehorizons in toto, but it is hoped that they do give the characteristicfossils of the rocks of the Kansas river section in sufficientfulness to warrant some deductions of value. The fauna of theLower Coal Measures still remains to be completed.
20. Kanwaka Shales (Adams MSS., by permission U. S.Geological Survey). Bennett’s description:[3] “Above the last(Oread) limestone lies a heavy shale deposit, at least ninety-sevenfeet thick at Lecompton. The lower sixty-five feet of this is aclay shale, then sixteen feet of arenaceous shale, then five feet164of sand rock, above which