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Locality, Low Buttes SSW of Fernhouse in E 1/2
NW 1/4, sec. 34, T. 17 N., R. 23 E., about 2.3
miles airline SSE of Firestool.
Siliceous graywacke butte cyp with much
"Helymenites" and scattered, rare fossils
including Tancredia, ammonite frag., oysters,
Phirus acbrascens and a meter+ shippod
clem. This cyp mapped as Hell Crr by
Curtis. No exposures below indurated
bed. Could be either upper TIL or
Colgato.
(B-1 on packages shipped)
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Locality Butte just NW intersection of S.D 8 and
SD 63, in
Here indurated sand in Tancredia-Helymenites
biofacies with soft sand beneath locally
no sign of any brindle beds.
(B-2 on packages shipped)
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Locality Road cuts on S.D. 63, about 1.6 miles S
of junction with E. A graywacke sand
with Helymenites-Tancredia assoc.
and foraminifer cones with some
other fossils incl. Sphenodiscus, mcztra,
O. pulcida in clusters, Peonoe, P.
linguiformis.
Locl indurated masses in this sand
are light gray & similar though not
as hard as butte-cyp sands B-1 and B-2.
The fauna is identical & this is
typical upper TIL, zones
B-3 on packages shipped
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