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Say's name as Fusulina secalica which he used in general for the 

 Kansas specimens which had heretofore been called F. cylindrica.'' 



From Hooser, Cowley County, in southern Kansas and probably 

 from the Neva limestone, which occurs some 40 feet below the 

 horizon of the Cottonwood limestone, Erich Spandel described seven 

 genera and nine species of Foraminifera. One of these he identified 

 as Fusulina cf. regularis Schellwien and stated that the chambers 

 correspond the best with F. cylindrica Fischer, modified by Moller, 

 and F. regularis Schellwien. Since the outside, however, corresponds 

 to the last species, so I believe, it is identical with the same or quite 

 nearly related. 



Those specimens described and figured by H. B. Geinitz from the 

 Permo-Carboniferous of Plattsmouth, Nebraska, under the names 

 of Fiis. cylindrica Fischer, and Fiis. depressa Fischer, appear to be 

 identical with those here discussed. 



Two of the new species of Foraminifera were named postcarbonica 

 and Spandel wrote as follows regarding the correlation of this horizon : 



The genus Monogenerina is new which appears to be restricted to the Permo- 

 Carboniferous. The other genera are already known to us from the Carbonif- 

 erous. The presence of Fusulina gives the fauna a more Carboniferous char- 

 acter, the frequent appearance of the Nodosaridae with three species refers the 

 same, however, to the lower limit of the Permian.^ 



In 1903 Professor J. A. Udden reported "great numbers of Fusu- 

 lina cylindrical' in the calcareous rocks of the Missourian series in 

 Fremont and Mills counties in southwestern Iowa, bordering on 

 Nebraska, which was stated to be interesting "as furnishing an addi- 

 tional item for consideration in correlating the uppermost members 

 of the Carboniferous of America with those of Europe, where the 

 same forms occur at about the same level in the geological scale. "-^ 



The above observations and statements appeared fairly conclusive; 

 but in order that there might be no mistake a specimen was sent 



1 Univ. Geol. Surv. Kansas, Vol. VI, 1900, p. 10. 



2 Abhand. d. naiurhistorischen Gesellschaft in Niirnberg, 1901, p. 19. 



3 Jotir. Geol., Vol. XI, p. 284. For the geological sections and various lists of 

 fossils containing F. cylindrica see Professor Udden's report on the geology of these 

 two counties in Vol. XIII, 1903, of the Iowa Geological Survey, pp. 137 ff. 



