Field Notebook: SD, WY, ND 1957
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Fox Ridge east of Porelo - No good exposures. Fox Buttes (see Choyenne Pos. Map) are breaks, not buttes. Include Trail City or equivalent transition beds with barren cones - though no good exposures and TC-Elk Bulte contact not seen. Top of divide S of Mossman contains fossils, Lower Timber Lake (in sloly phase) Upper TE cones which we collected at Charles O'Neals ranch where they are floating out at edge of flat. Some prob, in place or near it. [Loc 29] Loc 29 Bluffs of Fox Ridge south of Eagle Butte. Loc- Old locality 14 on S.D. 63 overgrown, but cones in cuts and as float in bluffs. Southernmost hill on road (to right - old rd went around it on W, new on E.) contains some fossilic cones. Its probably a slump block. Sample/ S.D.63 So. US 212 has numerous complete of them small species. Check to see whether this form localized in Fox Ridge localities. Loc 33 On back road roughly 11 to but 3 miles east of Rt. 63, better chance to 49