Field Notebook: Wyoming
Page 26
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"important horizon. It has include a number of layers since they closely adjoin. Loc. 6. This is a series of often limestone layers, not nodular. Shell Corium is the prominent fossils. In this zone a few shark's teeth were found two Prof Lawson and only Prof Charlton. It may be near the zone that the latter also found a outskirt of Plesiosaurus? See also the note than you on the gentleman. Ninety fathoms above Loc. 6 is a thin zone probably in the reef with a great abundance of Diceroceras and scattering leaves. Above of the latter a few by Prof. Knyphs collected them for Mr Charlton. This is the most important find of the day and was made by Prof Brown of Morgan- Town, M.D., Va. Loc. 8 is quite a distance south of the plant horizon and has numerous fragments of