REVIEWS 
Invertebrate Paleontology of the Upper Permian Red Beds oj Okla- | 
homa and the Panhandle of Texas. By J. W. BEEDE. (Kan- 
sas University Science Bulletin, Vol. IV, No. 3, March, 1907, 
pp. ti5—72, Plates V-lX.) 
It will be remembered by those familiar with the literature of the Red 
Beds of the Kansas-Texas region that in 1902 Dr. Beede first described, 
in this same periodical, a small invertebrate fauna from the Whitehorse 
sandstone of Oklahoma, concerning which he stated at that time that 
‘there can be but little doubt that the age of these beds is Permian.” 
It will aid one in understanding the stratigraphy of this region to state 
that Professor Gould has classified the rocks of Oklahoma, from the base 
of the Permian upward, as follows: 
(1) Enid formation, 1,500 feet thick, which ‘includes all the rocks of 
the Red Beds from the base of the Permian to the lowermost of the gypsum 
ledges;” (2) Blaine, roo feet thick, containing the lower gypsum beds; 
(3) Woodward, 425 feet thick, in the upper part of which is the Whitehorse 
sandstone; (4) Greer, 275 feet thick, containing the upper gypsum beds; 
(5) Quartermaster, 300 feet thick, which is capped by the Tertiary. 
The systematic portion of the present paper contains a further elabora- 
tion of the Whitehorse fauna together with a description of a new one from 
a sandstone in the Quartermaster formation in the Panhandle of Texas. 
In Professor Gould’s classification the Quartermaster division is given as 
the highest one of the Red Beds and Dr. Beede says that “the fossils came 
from well up in this formation.”’ It is also stated that the types of the 
entire Quartermaster fauna were sent Dr. T. W. Stanton, who reported 
that they were unmistakably Paleozoic. 
Dr. Beede says that ‘“‘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.” The description of these faunas is 
an important contribution to American geology, since it relatively determines 
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