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the most important specimens. The locality being several miles 

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Fig. ^,7. — Slab filled with remains of the very large Crinoid Scyphocrinns 

 elegans. Found near Cape Girardeau, Missouri. Photograph by Springer. 



the slabs to construct a chute by which they were lowered to the 

 river's level from a rock levee about 35 feet in height. This was 



