Kansas University Science Bulletin. 



Vol. I, No. 7. SEPTEMBER, 1902. |T?£xi?Natf 



COAL MEASURES FAUNAE STUDIES, II. 



(BY J. W. BEEDE AND AUSTIN F. KOGERS.) 



FAUNA OF THE SHAWNEE FORMATION (Ha worth), 

 THE WABAUNSEE FORMATION (Prosser), 



THE COTTONWOOD LIMESTONE. 



BY J. W. BEEDE. 



Being a continuation of the foregoing lists of Rogers, pub- 

 lished in this journal, vol. IX, No. 4, pp. 232-254. 1 



The present paper deals with the fauna of the rocks, begin- 

 ning at the base of what Haworth has called the "Shawnee 

 formation" 2 and continuing upward to the top of the Cotton- 

 wood limestone. The strata are treated in ascending order. 

 It must be borne in mind that it is the object of these papers to 

 bring out the fauna of the rocks of the Kansas Coal Measures 

 in sufficient detail to establish time divisions on a paleonto- 

 logical basis. These lists are, of course, incomplete for the 

 horizons in toto, but it is hoped that they do give the character- 

 istic fossils of the rocks of the Kansas river section in sufficient 

 fulness to warrant some deductions of value. The fauna of the 

 Lower Coal Measures still remains to be completed. 



20. Kanwaka Shales (Adams MSS., by permission U. S. 

 Geological Survey). Bennett's description : 3 "Above the last 

 (Oread) limestone lies a heavy shale deposit, at least ninety-seven 

 feet thick at Lecompton. The lower sixty-five feet of this is a 

 clay shale, then sixteen feet of arenaceous shale, then five feet 



1. In justice to Mr. Rogers, it should be stated that he did not see the proof of the first article 

 and is not to blame for the very bad errors which it contains. 



2. Univ. Geol. Surv. Kans., Ill, pp. 93, 91, 1898. 



3. Univ. Geol. Surv. Kans., I, p. 116, 1896. 



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