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Knight, Brillister and Field Collections in the
Freeze Out Hills are the Carnegie people
in this vicinity. Five parties.
August 1-99 Tuesday. Camp, VI.
After breakfast started with the majors
for the Freeze Out Hills to Knight's dig-
ings. Collected all the morning in the
Marine Jurassic.
In the late afternoon collected near the
top of the Atlantosaurus beds at a locality
discovered by Knight and Barton. This
thin stratum (6 inches) yielded fresh water
shells, 2 species of Helios, 1 planorbis, 1
physa, and possibly a fragment of leaf.
This is an important discovery since the
beds have all the appearance of marine
maynot deposits. Collected a number
of specimens. Mr. Barton will work
out the fauna.
A number of the party looked for