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intermittent in zone 1 to 12 feet
above basal lignitic shale. Fauna
otherwise is all vertebrate including
Myledaphis, dinosaur bones + teeth (amosaur)
crocs, turtles, presumed cheyresosaurs,
also much water-worn charcoal -
sampled to be tested, the usual
wood and plant frags.
Locally lower lignitic shale is
absent - Calpeta-Bullhead-like beds
in with Corbicula association at
close to Unio horizon. Relationships
obscure, (probably recent)
Unio sand includes clay pellets, plant
frags etc on fresh cut. Unios commonly
both valves, some aligned - hinges down.
Loc 304
Includes that part of Iron Lightening
bedleads north of the E-W bluff of
Well Creek on west rim of bedleads
in NE cor sec 32 (actually NE 1/4 NE 1/4;
E 1/2 NW 1/4 NE 1/4; most of N 1/2, SE 1/4 NE 1/4;
2nd NE cor SW 1/4 NE 1/4) and SE part
sec. 29 (actually SE 1/4; 2nd part E 1/2 SW 1/4)
T 14N, R 19E, Red Elm NE Quad.
Ziebach Co., So Dak.
Good exposure of Unio bed in horiz zone
of principal draw coming in to
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