Field Notebook: SD, CO, WY 1967
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possibly secondary. At top of this unit large cone masses + crumbly jackets + cones, in upper 2 to 4' there have usual grid, small burrowing some larger scale parallel burrows, now Ophio recognizable. Unit 5 +13°, 48' (24') Sand as below, some bedding marked loc by clay. Also prominent beds clay and pellet-forms in sand. Latter may be Ophiomorpha but now doubt it Forms not unlike ophio but why clay pellet wells? [illegible] typical²; also source pellet structures looking form, but may be compression texture. Interval has scattered small cones one contained large Gervillia. Also very large cones in discord layed in upper 5' (up to 4.0) diam.) one has many Veniella humilis clay-rimmed burrows appear both pelletoid + non pelletoid types. At top is platy Snd cone layer numerous irreg bedding trails some vertical ± burrows, becomes irreg bedded downwards only platy in spots.