Field Notebook: SD, NE 1959
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well down in section - seems very close to similar one in the Trail city member, large fossils other than heteromorphs are zero, but numerous small clams & snails in shale. Fossils bear little or no relation to concretions - more in shale than in concretions - though the living chambers of beculites and scaphites are almost consistently filled with concretionary is. A sparse but distinctive fauna in shale - including small pecten(?) unusual scabbard-shaped tube, like a large, elongate hemulid, worm. Shale shows "toccid"-like markings commonly. Attitude on limestone layers in cut N. 46° W, 3° NE. Gravel pit A, is borrow pit N of Corps of Engineers Rd running to new RR bridge over Mo. River from the Wekpalz Rd in NE ¼ sec. T 19 N, R. 29 E (Wekpalz SE Quad). Pit is in sec 13 just beyond E. limit of the quad sheet. McBridge member cut into at base of pit. Few fossils. 19