Field Notebook: Texas 1924, 1925
Page 79
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Alpine April 8 - 1956 Thursday Motored to Wolfcamp northeast of Marathon. Have collected all morning in the Lorn as far of the Wolfcamp, probably half a mile north of the type locality. Left the car a little to the W. drug of the old deep tree and then walked up a cow path along the gulch first N. and then mostly east to another turn in the gulch and from the opposite hill down found a good place where the limestone broke out under the weathering and free of the fossils. Johnmayerina, Fusulina elmylata and another Fusulina are common. Also for Phictthlenia, one or 8 of Aulostyros, Entelele, Huastedia meeki and many other fossils. All in Permian measures. All of these fossils come out of the Lorn as far as can be said to the Wolfcamp, just above the third redded terminal limestone of the Upper Saptank. The basal limestone Wolfcamp 6 to 8 feet thick is oxidized redded, weathered feldspar and gields fossils in a siliceous condition. The basal part of this limestone has a limestone conglomerate 2 to 3 foot thick which rests on the Septank in a decided erosional thickened unconformity. Lelland says that the Wolfcamp has a to have a different attitude and cuts diagonally across different beds of the Saptank. In any event the Wolfcamp fauna is decidedly different from