Field Notebook: SD, WY 1956
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July 15. Loc 43 Road cut in massive buff sand N. of Little Eagle (Little Eagle Sand cut) Looks like Lundry Dam lithic type with big & smaller O-B weathering cones, and frizzle sand with fossils. Fossils in sand, Pteriz, Ostrez, Celliste?, In Cones. Pteriz much carbonized wood. collections from cone, & loose Sand. At top of cut is cone layer with Helymenites. Big concretions mushroom & urrey, have helymenites? rare patches clams as in small cones. Loose clams chiefly in lower half of bank road, July 15- More notes on the Bull Head locality. The old road along the river bluff used to be main road. Locally it cut thru the zone fossil Caroc's cones, just above base of Trail City member. and these tossed into river. In face between river and road some can still be seen in piece. Include brrren(?) sandy type cones in yellow-spotted zone, but some float 8