PROSSER: UPPER CARBONIFEROUS OF SOUTHERN KANSAS, 
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stone twelve feet thick which has been quarried to a considerable 
extent for local use. This bluff affords the best section in the 
vicinity of Arkansas City. 
SECTIONS OF THE BLUFF EAST OF ARKANSAS CITY. 
Near top of hill. 
Feet. 
Thin bedded limestones, quarried to some extent... 12==107 
Shales, 3 to 4 feet 95 
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Massive limestone, containing large numbess of c law Grom fil 
pebbles, giving the stone a mottled appearance. 
Shales, soit 7 feet. ‘ Pane The ha, 
Yellowish shales, expose ae on bluff aie quarry. 3==6.0 
Buff to blue thin limestones TI ONT Gael ae ig 5==58 
Shaly light gray limestone, in cee iseitee are a brusds Toons 
ant from 1 to 1% feet thick. 
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@overedvro levelOon the Valin y eiVemiy Use Wi uiwiiy tte A Omer O 
bluff at the quarry and were measrued by Mr. J. W. Beede; 
Nom to inclusive, of the above section are exposed in the 
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while 
the remaining part of the section is on the hill a short distance to 
the southeast, for part of the details of which I am indebted to Mr. 
C. N.. Gould. In the shaly limestone of No. 3 Mr. Beede collected 
the following fauna: 
Ts 
a 
(3) 
NiNano aorctedardes, “Naame EL jai secs ae ww eee 
LS CUCM E SUN A ICMana ern G Mie ab TWRIAC A WHR bch aun h hte 
Perhaps JZ. recurvirostris M. and W.. Too poorly pre- 
served for specific identification. 
Athyris (Seminula) subtitita (Hall) Newb 
Proauctus semtreticulatus (Mart.) de Kon.... 
Productus semtreticulatus (Mart.) de Kon., var. Cachount- 
anus Swallow. 
Productus nebrascensts Owen(?)...... a . 
A large specimen possibly belonging to this species, 
though it is wider on the hinge line and in this respect 
more closely resembles P. semireticulatus. 
Derbya crassa (M. and H.) H. and C. 
Derbya multistriata (M. and H.) Pros. 
Perhaps some of the preceding species seule be faked 
as this one. ‘They are rather larger than the ordinary 
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