Field Notebook: Oklahoma, Texas 1922
Page 43
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Earland, Texas. Sunday March 19, 1922 A fine crisp but cold morning. Set started in Graham at 9 A.M. Locality (5) on map. Ciser, just below Lenoir limestone. Beside railway 2 1/2 miles S.E. of Lenoir. Torr slats. Locality (6) on map. Ciser, 30 feet below Benge limestone just north Wichita Falls, Ranger and Fort Worth R.R., 2 1/2 miles over I Lacasa, Stephens Cr., Texas. Here occur a great abundance of fossils mainly Myalina subquadrata, Derby crassa Productus Sora, P. nebraskensis, Bryozoa Ariculifera, etc. Fossils, however, are much broken or squeezed in the shales. The main abundance of fossils occurs in a few feet of thickness. Set to Graham at 6:30 P.M. Coming at Graham Hotel.