Kansas Onivehsity Science Bolletin. 



Vol. Ill, No. 10. 



APRIL, 1906. 



Whole Series, 

 Vol xm, No. 10. 



COAL MEASURES FAUNAE STUDIES, IV. 



UPPER GOAL MEA.SURES, Neosho River Section. 



BY J. W. BEEDE AND AUSTIN F. ROGERS.* 



T^HIS paper is a continuation of the others of similar title 

 -^ by the authors, and takes up the rocks of the southeast- 

 ern part of the state where No. Ill left off, (No. 15, vol. II). 



DUDLEY SHALES. 



One hundred and fifty feet of shales from which no fossils 

 have, with certainty, been collected. Some were collected 

 from clay shales at Parsons, but we are not certain of the 

 horizon from which they came. 



HERTHA LIMESTONE, 



Bluish to light gray limestone with shale partings. From 

 ten to twenty feet in thickness. The fossils accredited to 

 this limestone were collected from the Santa Fe railroad cut 

 just east of Trent siding, three miles east of Erie. 



Sponge?. 



Aulopora sp. 



Axophyllum rude White and St. 

 John, c. 



sp. 



Campophyllum torquium Owen. 



Lophophyllum westii Beede, aa. 



Crinoid plates and stems. 



Archa^ocidaris, two or three species. 



Serpula insita White. 



Spirorbis cf. nodulosus Hall. 



sp. 



Hederella ? sp., a. 



Chainodictyon laxum Foerste. 

 Cystodictya inequimarginata Rogers. 

 Fenestella limbata Foerste. 



sp. 

 Fistulipora nodulifera Meek. 

 Pinnatopora sp. 

 Polypora, two species. 

 Rhombocladia delicata Rogers, c. 

 Rhombopora lepidodendroides Meek. 

 Stenopora carbonaria Worthen. 

 Ambocoelia planoconvexa (Shu- 

 mard), c. 



* Published by permission of the Director of the University Geological Survey of Kansas. 



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