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LANCE CREEK AREA - Reconnaissance of localities
Locality 102 Gunn Ranch, south Ant Hills, E1/2, sec.4,
T.36 N., R.63 W., Niobrara County, Wyoming.
Exposures in and around gulch with
windmill; first gulch N. ranch, access through
yard and pasture.
Massive buff-worth unit and overlying
tzbulzer x-lzm to cross bedded, sznd with
shzle lzmince. Lower unit not exposed.
The massive sznd coutzius Veniella and a
spheriolz-like clam. The bryozoon conis zrd very rzra here - only one found, punky
with Protoczuldz + ammonite frogs.
At top of massive is discontinuous
red-bwn weztu cone layer of lzrge (up to
8' long diam) cile. cones with phosphatic
nodules on upper surface, fish bones +
teeth + phosphatizd frogs. of Veniella,
sphenodiscus and other inverts. This
layer comes at sharp contact between the
massive sand unit and the overlying
lzminated + thin-bedded units. Locally bzszl
thin beds zre incorporated in cone messes.
Where cones absent some phosphatized
stemkurus persist at contact.
Thin-bedded unit has considerable
silty to szndy slale in thin layers in
bzszl 20' t.
Could get section across contact but
no good contact with lower unit or with
Calgate. Best locality for unconf. between
massive and thinbedded units.
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