Kansas 1Ini?eiisity Science Bulletin. 



Vol. IV, No. 3. MARCH, 1907. 1 ^oTxV ^wo'^s' 



Vol. XIV, No. 3. 



INVERTEBRATE PALEONTOLOGY OF THE UPPER PER- 

 MIAN RED BEDS OF OKLAHOMA AND THE 

 PANHANDLE OF TEXAS. 



BY J, W. BEEDE.^ 

 With plates V to VIII. 



nPHROUGH the favor of Prof. E. Haworth the writer was 

 -*- enabled to study the Red Beds of western Oklahoma and 

 the Panhandle of Texas in the latter part of the season of 

 1904. The locality at Whitehorse spring, eighteen miles 

 west of Alva, Okla., was visited and a collection of fossils 

 secured from the Whitehorse sandstone. In addition to this, 

 the rocks of the Quartermaster formation, now known to form 

 the upper part of the Paleozoic Red Beds, were studied, and 

 a collection made from the sandstone exposed near Dozier, 

 Tex., at a place noted previously by Prof. C. N. Gould. 

 This sandstone is shown in the hills just east of Mr. Caper- 

 ton's house, which was then the post-office of Dozier. The 

 fossils were found on the west slope of the hill. 



On account of unavoidable delays the results of the study 

 of these collections have been postponed to the present time. 

 These collections are of great importance, as they furnish the 

 final evidence that the Red Beds, below the Dockum beds, of 

 the Oklahoma-Panhandle region are Paleozoic in age. Before 

 entering into a detailed discussion of the fauna of these rocks 

 and their relationships and the age of the deposits, it is desira- 

 ble to give a brief review of previous work upon the subject. 

 Much of this has been given by Prof. W. F. Cummins, in the 

 Second Annual Report of the Geological Survey of Texas, and 

 is liberally quoted below. 



1. Published by permission of the Director of the Geological Survey of Kansas. 



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