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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