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Many small fossils areather only the lower beds and
lie in lown ground. I had no time to collect it. Keyte has a
lot of it and if necessary get him to loan one a collecting.
The fossils show clearly that these Lower Sap-
tank strata are of the regular Pennsylvanian
and out of the earlier time within, and certainly not at
all of the Bend-Morrow-Drabannocka Time. As I
see our Charites most likely but rather the Cretomemi lians.
I am wondering if the time may be early Canyon. It is
certain as late Wolfcamp Shawn. The folding of
these Tresnus-Hinfe-Hagmond strata their age may
falls in Bridle Pennsylvanian Time. In later work,
What the relation is to the Upper Sapbank, Blan-
hard says
cannot be determined at this
place since there is none here on any of the Per-
Mian series. They are angularly related to the
Comanchian basal sands and than the loney
series, but the exact age I do not know (Prof Edmons)
Then entered south west to Wolfcamps where
This is my locality collected from two feet after these ammonites,
or all collected and minute.
do not occur in
the Wilfcamp but in the Upper Sapbank, in
blue shales. Left but few fossils although Keyte
said he had at least 10 specimens of ammonites.
It hailed and rained at 4P.M. and we are
concluded to go back to Alpine.
On road from Marathon to Saptank one turns
to the same locality
m at 11.6 miles out of Marathon; have a mild mill to S.