Field Notebook: California, Oregon, Washington, Texas, British Columbia 1926, 1927
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Ransome, Drtn Styanms but none were m. Finally met Drddcle who showed me his Mississippian fauna collected at Jerome. Says he has nearly 100 forms, many new and that the type appears to be mainly Redwall. What seems of the finds lead me rather to think of late Kinderhook - Burlington. Says there are also St Genevieve suggestions, but I doubt if any of those are other than my varying forms. All in all the type is Redwall and apparently = Madison. Then Dr was shown a lot of peculiar gastropods from near Jerome, and which Styanams was calling Advisian because he thought he sees gastropod percula. Then Lawson walked in and it soon became apparent that he differed from Styanams saying they are in an undisturbed section underlain by Upper Devonian and overlain by the Mississippian. I then looked more carefully at the "perculs" and saw that they are Hiralos and possibly of Mytilacra and Lucina. Clearly the fauna is Upper Devonian. A tuberculate gastropod is common that Whitecars describes from the.