Field Notebook: Oklahoma 1919
Page 26
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No 1019 A carr. I some [illegible] stem Smith will be a Cordails. Section about 2 1/2 x 3 inches, cm. No 1020 may be another wood cast, No 1004 [illegible]. No 1006 A fine worm turner truck. No 880 and 881 the same thing. (drawing) Like this. All of the fossil specimens seen this morning at the Jacobsen are from a limestone quartzitic and fire conglomerates. The quartz particles are all small usually 1/8 inch across and all well rounded. Some have flatter shale angular particles = intraformational. Very many in there is shale sample that pressed, none are slates. I can explain the fossil evidence test as Carbon- iferous. [illegible] had reported his observations to Hoerner and McCoy as Upper Ordovician on the basis that he had seen a fragment about 3/8 inch across of a Trematops blade. He is certain it was calcareous 'phosphatic' as this it had four fine rows of pits. As he drew it to me his drawing suggests Trematops. There were two fragments, but today we could find neither. Was Hoerner taken these to New York? The question I must ask Hoerner at Columbia Uni- versity is did the Lepidodendron come from the same formation as the rest of the fossils. If so there can be no