ANTHRACOLITHIC ROCKS OF KANSAS 143 



The most important characters of our species consist in the described man- 

 ner of rolHng up, the marked prominence of the mouth, but especially in the 

 slight folding of the septa, a peculiarity which characterizes the majority of 

 American Fusulinas and has led Girty to describe a genus of his own, viz., 

 Triticites.'^ 



The important point to be noted in all these references to Schell- 

 wien's work is that he always referred the American forms under dis- 

 cussion, to the genus Fusulina. 



Professors Grabau and Shimer in their excellent work on " North 

 American Index Fossils" list the abundant American species as 

 Fusulina secalica (Say) followed by F. cylindrica in parentheses as a 

 synonym which is stated to be widely "distributed throughout the 

 Middle and Upper Carbonic."'' Professor Ernst Koken on his world 

 paleogeographic map of "Land und Meer zur permischen Zeit" 

 shows the genus Fusulina in Kansas. ^ 



Recently Dr. Beede has found typical Schwagerinas in the Neva 

 limestone associated with Fusulina of the longissima type on the one 

 hand and with a micro-foraminiferal fauna of Permo-Carboniferous 

 character on the other, similar to that described by Spandel.^ 



It appears, therefore, that the evidence from the Foraminifera is 

 much more strongly in favor of the general correlation which I have 

 made of the Upper Paleozoic rocks of Kansas than I had claimed. 



The following statement by Dr. Girty is to be noted: "In a paper 

 just received Mr. Yabe expresses the opinion that the generic term 

 Triticites, which I introduced for the type of Fusulina found in the 

 Mississippi Valley, is a synonym not of Fusulina but of Schwagerina.'"^ 

 Then follows nearly a page discussion of the correlation of the 

 Kansas deposits, providing this change in generic position of the 

 specimens which he had named Triticites be accepted. Dr. Girty 



1 Palaeontographica, Vol. LV, 1908, p. 186. Dr. Lewis A. Rhoades, professor of 

 Germanic languages and literatures in the Ohio State University, has looked over this 

 translation together with some others in this article and has kindly suggested some 

 changes which I have made. 



2 Op. cit., I, 1906, p. 12. 



3 N. Jahrbuch /. Min., Geol., u. Pal., Festband 1907, p. 546 and PL XIX. 



4 See Univ. Geol. Surv. Kan., Vol. IX, 1909, pp. 348, 374, and Dr. Beede's review 

 of "The Guadalupian Fauna" in Jour. Geol., Vol. XVII, 1909, p. 677. 



5 "The Guadalupian Fauna," op. cit., p. 44. 



