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The coal beds of the lower division vary greatly, both in number and 

 thickness, in sections only a few miles apart. The coal seems to be of 

 inferior quality, but all of the few openings that have been made are 

 small and have not gone beyond the influence of surface weathering. 

 A mine at Glendale, in Long valley, on the uppermost coal bed, which 

 is near the top of the division, shows about 8 feet of coal with two 

 partings of indurated shale. One of these near the base of the bed is 

 fall of Uhios, while the other about 3 feet above it contains great num- 

 bers of Gorbula nematophora. 



The fauna of this division so far as it is known is the same as that of 

 the lower portion of the section at Coalville, Utah, and of the coal- 

 bearing series along the western edge of the high plateau region near 

 Cedar city and Kanarra, which will beconsidered on following pages. 



The general aspect of the middle division is that of drab clay shales, 

 though the upper part is more arenaceous and forms a transition to the 

 sandstones above. The fossiiiferous concretions seem to be confined to 

 the lower 40 feet in Kanajb valley, but near Mount Carmel in Long 

 valley a few concretions containing Buchiceras sivallovi, Liopistha merit, 

 and associated forms were found up to 325 feet above the base. This 

 zone has yielded an interesting fauna containing some species not yet 

 found elsewhere, with others that connect it with the Colorado fauna 

 as developed in Huerfano park and in the Eagle Ford shales of Texas, 

 as the following list of those collected in Upper Kanab valley will 

 show: 



Gryphiea newberryi. Lunatia concinna. 



Lima utahensis. Anchura? prolabiata. 



Camptonectes platessa. Anchura inula. 



Inoeeranras fragilis. Tritonium kanabense. 



Nemodon sulcatinus?. Sigaretns textilis. 



Lucina subnndata. Helicoceras pariense. 



Liopistba meeki. Baculites gracilis ? 



Liopistha elongata. Buchiceras swallovi. 



Corbnla kanabensis. Placonticeras. 



Turritella whitei. Acanthoceras kanabense. 



At a locality southeast of Paria, Utah, a number of the above species 

 have been found in the same zone and associated with them Inoceramus 

 labiatus, Veniella f/oniophora, and Serpula intrica. 



This list of fossils contains enough characteristic species to furnish a 

 good basis for correlation with the lower part of the Colorado forma- 

 tion, but with our present knowledge it is impossible to locate the upper 

 limit of the formation in this section. It should probably be drawn 

 below the base of the upper sandstone division. 



The upper part, and probably almost the whole, of the third division 

 has been correlated with the Laramie with a reasonable degree of cer- 

 tainty. The testimony of the fresh-water invertebrates and of the 

 plants, though rather meager, is all favorable to such a correlation, and 

 the fact that it is overlain by Eocene Tertiary beds without apparent 



