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as in the Red Bluff sandstone^ which occurs well toward the top of 

 the Cimarron series as found in Kansas. Finally, in 1907, Dr. Beede 

 described a fauna from Dozier, in the Panhandle of Texas, which 

 occurs stratigraphically, according to Doctors Beede and Gould, in 

 the Quartermaster division of the Oklahoma formations which they 

 state "is the highest formation in the Red Beds, and the fossils came 

 from well up in this formation."^ According to these geologists 

 the Quartermaster division occurs entirely above the top of the Cimar- 

 ron or Red Beds as found in Kansas. Dr. Beede described the faunas 

 from the Whitehorse sandstone and the Dozier beds under the title 

 of "Invertebrate Paleontology of the Upper Permian Red Beds of 

 Oklahoma and the Panhandle of Texas" and said: 



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 The faunas are somewhat heterogeneous as to origin. 



Some of the species seem to be directly derived from the Kansas Permian or 

 Pennsylvanian, while others, as pointed out in the discussion of the species, are 

 derived from the European Permian, especially that of Russia. ^ 



In the lower part of the Enid division at a horizon corresponding 

 with the upper part of the Wellington shales of Kansas,4 which 

 is the highest formation of the Big Blue series, near Nardin 

 and Orlando, Oklahoma, vertebrate fossils were found. The speci- 

 mens from Orlando were studied by both Doctors Williston and Case 

 and a preliminary list was furnished by Dr. Williston who wrote 

 Dr. Gould as follows concerning it: "Altogether you see that these 

 fossils point unmistakably to the Permian. "^ Dr. Case furnished 

 a report on these fossils for publication and in conclusion said: 



The result of the determination of these fossils has been to settle the long 

 mooted question of the age of the Red-beds The Red-beds of Oklahoma, 



1 Beede, Am. GeoL, Vol. XXVIII, July, 1901, pp. 46, 47. The fauna was first 

 described by Dr. Beede in the "Advance Bulletin of the First Biennial Report of the 

 Geological Survey of Oklahoma," April, 1902. Later it was more fully described by 

 the same author in the Kansas Univ.. Science Bulletin, Vol. IV, March, 1907, pp. 115- 

 72, Pis. V-IX; Gould, Jour. GeoL, Vol. IX, July, 1901, pp. 337-41. 



2 Kansas Univ. Science Bull., Vol. IV, p. 141. 3 Ibid., pp. 115, 142. 



4 Beede, Kansas Univ. Science Bull., Vol. IV, 1907, p. 138; Gould, Jour. Geology, 

 Vol. IX, 1901, p. 339. 



s Sec. Biennial Rept., Dept. Geol. and Nat. Hist., Territory of Oklahoma, 1902, 

 p. 60. 



