C. W. Honess — Stanley Shale of Oklahoma. T5 



or more of sediments is surely not because there was no 

 life nor does it seem that the dynamic forces operative in 

 this region should have destroyed all traces of its exis- 

 tence. A few fossils have, however, been found, and the 

 writer believes that continued search will reveal more. 



A collection of plants including some ferns was col- 

 lected from the upper Stanley in Arkansas a number of 

 years ago (as referred to by Miser, U. S. Geol. Survev, 

 Bull. 660-C, p. 66). The Beech Creek locality, sec. 22, T. 

 IN., R. 26E., Oklahoma, as indicated in the description 

 above, has yielded fragments of plants including fern 

 pinnules and some seeds in several horizons. The Jack- 

 fork sandstone above is at times quite replete with bits of 

 wood and leaves. The writer has found great numbers of 

 them all through the mountains from Atoka to Arkansas 

 in the Jackfork but they are always so poorly preserved 

 that little use can be made of them. 



Somewhere in the Stanley (exact locality not known) 

 two plants were discovered, Nos. 977 and 882, both poorly 

 preserved. 



At a point 450 paces east of the W.% cor. sec. 33, T. 4S., 

 R. 21E., on the west bank of Little River near the middle 

 of the Stanley close to the cone-in-cone horizon, were 

 found two plants (numbers 941 and 942). In this same 

 place on Little River in a tough coarse sandstone layer 

 three inches thick, and in the same outcrop, but not the 

 same horizon, with the plants the writer found also a 

 small marine fauna — so far as known the first animals 

 ever found in the Stanley. These consisted of bryozoa 

 and brachiopods and great numbers of crinoid stems for 

 the most part, collectively numbered as specimens 943 

 and 944. 



Near the bottom of the Stanley (within about 25 feet 

 of the bottom) in the exact center of sec. 27, T. 2S., R 

 24E. were found a few specimens of an inarticulate brach- 

 iopod No. 1015, and the same horizon was located also 4 

 miles to the east at a point 275 paces (2,000 paces per 

 mile) south of the center of sec. 29, T. 2S., R. 25E., where 

 three or four more specimens of the same brachiopod were 

 found. (No. 1016.) These occur in a hard pinkish white 

 fine-grained sandstone. 



It remains to mention one other occurrence of fossils — 

 a rather unusual one — and that is the presence of crin- 



