402 J. S. Newberry on the Lignites and 
The same may be said of those of Alaska and McKenzie's 
River ; at least, in all these, as well as in those of the pee 
Missouri, we find species which recur in Greenland, Iceland 
and =e ati Europe, in what has been universally called 
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Cretaceous of Europe. Yet we find, with our C retaceous plants, 
great numbers of well marked Cretaceous animal fossils, and 
vertebrates? So far as regards the central and western portions 
of the continent, I should say we had not. In the plant-beds 
one, so far as I know, which deserves to be call ene. The 
lignites and plant-beds of New Mexico which I have called 
retaceous, but which are by Mr. Lesquereu to 
the typical forms of Cretaceous animal life are abundant 
represented, Whether the great lignite deposits of Colorade 
