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same county, the south bank of the creek shows a section of 



1. Gray sands 25 feet 



2. Brown sand and altered green sand with stratified 



ferruginous material and thin laminre of iron 



ore near base 6 feet 



4. Yellow indurated fossiliferous altered green sand 



packed with shells 20 feet 



The eastern portion of Hurricane Bayou forms the approximate 

 southern boundary of the Marine beds for six or eight miles east of 

 Crockett. Here, when the Bayou is dry, or the water at a low stage, 

 an extremely interesting fauna may readily be obtained. Among 

 the fossils found we have Terebra texagyra Harris var. , T. lioustonia 

 Harris n. sp., Conus sauridens Con., Pleu.rotoma (Surcula) gabbii 

 Con., PL heilpriniana H. n. sp., PL (Drillia) nodocarinata Gabb., 

 PI. ehildreni Lea, var. bilota, H., PL huppertzi Harris, n. sp. PL 

 megapis H. n. sp., PL (Drillia) texacona Harris, PL (Drillia') texana 

 Gabb., PL vaughani var. Harris, PL retefera H., PL (3Iangellia) 

 in fa >i* var. H. , Mr. Olivelkt bombylis var. bivrlesonia H., Andlla 

 (OUvula) staminea Con., Anomia ephippioides Gabb., Plicatida f/a- 

 mentosa Con., Pecten sp., Pinna sp., Pectunculus idoneus Con., Pseti- 

 doliva vetusta Con. var., Volutilithes petrosa Con., Caricella demissa 

 var. texana Gabb., Marginella seminoides Gabb., Lapparia pactilis 

 var. mooreana Gabb. , Turricula (Conomitra) texana H., Terebra 

 amoena Con., T. costata Lea, var., Latirus moorei Gabb., Corbula 

 alabamensis Lea, Dentalium minutistriatum Gabb., Cadulus sub- 

 coarcuatus Gabb., Venericardia rotunda Lea, V. planicosta Lam., 

 Crassatella texanaH., Cytherea tornadonisH., Clavilithes (Papillina) 

 (buiiosa var. H, G. trapaqaara H., Fusvs mortoni var. viortonopsis 

 Gabb, Clavilithes humerosa var. texana H., Phos texana Gabb var., 

 Distort io septemdentata Gabb, Cassidaria planotecta Aid., Solarium 

 acutum var. meehanum Gabb, Natiea acuta Gabb, Natica limula 

 var., Sigaretus d eel his Con. , Mesalia claibornensis Con., Be lose jri a 

 ungula Gabb, Spirorbis leptostoma Swain, and the corals Occulina 

 Heilpr., Turbinolia pharetra Lea, Trochosmilia mortoni Gabb and 

 I Torn, and Endojmehys ma,clurii Lea. 



These fossils all occur in an altered green sand of a brownish 

 yellow color in places indurated into hard shabby sandstones, but the 

 greater portion soft. This overlies a dark green sand and clay as 



