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Jackstoro, Texas,
Thursday March 23 1922
Left Graham at 6:47 A.M. for Jacks-
town and got here at 8 A.M. Then walked
3 1/2 miles southeast on Rock Island Railway
to a deep cut capped by limestone, followed
Jackston
beneath by noduliforms yellow anorthizing shale
for about 10 feet, and then a blue sticky clay
with occasional nodules and test prints that
these are comparatively rare. More than 2/3 of
the forms gotten come from the lower clays at
all the formations dip to west.
the eastern end of cut. The species appear to be
common to both. Marginifera losallensis most
common above, with Fusulina and Phylloidmella
keeni, but several specimens of goniatites of
this species. One of the specimens is fine. The horizon
is in the Middle Jackston. Gummery Brooker 53-8.
The limestone has shale layers filled with
sometimes the shale limestone is made of them.
Jura Camptophyllum Torquicum. They are held down
from the Canyon series.
There are several limestone horizons to the east
of Jackstoro, and near the railway station
here is a third zone of limestone. This day out
for town.
Dad and I have 60 species from the above locality
but I doubt of share more than 45 forms.