Field Notebook: Wyoming
Page 49
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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