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Campeloma nebrasccnsis nebrascensis Meek and Hayden 

 Goniabasis tenuicarinata Meek and Hayden 

 Proparreysia holmcsianus White 

 Tulotoma thompsoni White 

 Unio cf. U. mendax White 



Unio sp 32 



Sandstone, massive, fine-grained, friable, yellow-brown 23 



Shale, soft, brown, papery, somewhat sandy 12 



Sandstone, fine-grained, hght reddish-brown. In the basal portion were found the 

 fossil plant species: 



Celastrus taurinensis Quercius viburnifoHa 



CornophyUum wardii Rhamnus cleburni 



Ficus cockerelli Rhamnus sahcifolius 



Ficus crossii SabaUtes montana 



Ficus planicostata Trochodendroides nebrascensis 



Grewiopsis saportana Typha sp. 



Laurophyllum mecki Viburnum marginatum 



Myrica torreyi 8 



Shale, soft, sandy, gray, thinly bedded, in places carbonaceous 51 



Shale, grayish-red, papery, with 2-foot coal bed at base, overlain by irregularly 



bedded, fine-grained, gray-brown sandstone 75 



Shale, gray, papery, with thin, concretionary, fine-grained, fractured, gray-brown 



sandstone near middle 48 



Sandstone, reddish-brown, cross-bedded, fine-grained 3 



Sandstone, hght brown, fine-grained with shells of the brackish-water species: 



Corbula subtrigonaUs subtrigonaUs Meek and Hayden 15 



Shale, sandy, partly carbonaceous with irregularly bedded, fine-grained, brown 



sandstone in middle part 33 



Sandstone, brown, massive, friable, fine-grained 5 



Shale, gray, sandy, papery ; 2-foot coal bed overlain by a single 4-foot layer of thinly 



bedded brown sandstone near middle 36 



Sandstone, 2-foot layer, massive, brown, fine-grained, friable 2 



Sandstone, gray, hard, thinly bedded, concretionary, which yielded the foUowing 

 species of fossil plants: 



Apeibopsis? laramiensis MagnoUa pulchra 



Carpites walcotti MagnoUophyUum cordatum 



Cinnamomum affine Myrica torreyi 



CornophyUum wardii PhylUtes wilderi 



DryophyUum subfalcatum Quercus viburnifoUa 



Ficus coloradense Rhamnus cleburni 



Ficus cowanensis Rhamnus salicifoUus 



Ficus planicostata SabaUtes montana 



Ficus tesselata Trochodendroides nebrascensis 



Grewiopsis saportana Typha sp. 



Juglans leconteana Viburnum marginatum 



Juglans newberryi Viburnum montanum 



Laurus sociaUs? Vitis stantoni 



MagnoUa lakesii Zizyphus hcndersoni 



MagnoUa nervosa 5 



Sandstone, gray, cross-bedded, concretionary, and lesser thickness of shales, gray, 



sandy 15 



Sandstone, gray, massive, fine-grained " 



Shale, sandy, thinly-bedded; mostly covered 105 



