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PENNSYLVANIAN SPORES OE ILLINOIS 



The following species have been identi- 

 fied from the Bald Hill coal bed : 



1. Punctati-sporhes verrucifer sp. nov. 



2. P. sulcatus Wilson and Kosanke, 1944 



3. P. decorus Wilson and Kosanke, 1944 



4. Granulati-sporites pallidus sp. nov. 



5. G. verrucosus (Wilson and Coe) S. W. 

 . and B., 1944 



(k>G. deltiformis S. W. and B., 1944 



7. Reticulati-sporites adhearens sp. nov. 



8. Lacvigato-sporites ovalis sp. nov. 



9. L. punctatus sp. nov. 



10. L. desmoinensis (Wilson and Coe) S. W. 

 and B., 1944 



11. L. minimus (Wilson and Coe) S. W. and 

 B., 1944 



12. L. minutus (Ibrahim) S. W. and B., 1944 



13. L. vulgaris (Ibrahim) Ibrahim, 1933 



14. Denso-sporites sphacrotriangularis sp. 

 nov. 



15. Triquitrites angulatus sp. nov. 



16. T. crassus sp. nov. 



17. T. exiquus Wilson and Kosanke, 1944 



18. T. arculatus Wilson and Coe, 1940 



19. Calamospora straminea Wilson and Ko- 

 sanke, 1944 



20. C. hartungiana Schopf, 1944 



21. Lycospora brevijuga sp. nov. 



22. L. granulata sp. nov. 



23. Raistrickia aculeolata Wilson and Ko- 

 sanke, 1944 



24. Florinites elegans Wilson and Kosanke, 

 1944 



Stonefort Coal Bed 



The Stonefort coal bed exposed on Stone- 

 fort Hill in the NW. \/ A SE. l/ A sec. 25, T. 

 10 S., R. 4 E., Williamson County, was 

 macerated and the spores identified. The 

 coal bed lies below the Stonefort limestone 

 and above the Bald Hill coal bed as illus- 

 trated by Henbest (1928). The coal bed 

 has a maximum thickness of 14 inches and 

 is without partings. 



Spores are abundant in the Stonefort coal 

 bed, which may be distinguished from the 

 Bald Hill coal bed below and the Davis 

 coal bed above by several guide species, and 

 the apparent lack of Denso-sporites and 

 Granulati-sporites. In this latter respect 

 it is somewhat similar to the Murphysboro 

 coal bed. 



The following list of genera and species 

 is from the Stonefort coal bed at the loca- 

 tion given above : 



1. Punctati-sporites decorus Wilson and Ko- 

 sanke, 1944 



2. P. firmus^ (Loose) S. W. and B., 1944 



3. Reticulati-sporites adhearens sp. nov. 



4. Laevigato-sporites punctatus sp. nov. 



5. L. desmoinensis (Wilson and Coe) S. W. 

 and B., 1944 



6. L. vulgaris (Ibrahim) Ibrahim, 1933 



7. L. ovalis sp. nov. 



8. L. latus sp. nov. 



9. L. minutus (Ibrahim) S. W. and B., 1944 



10. L. minimus (Wilson and Coe) S. W. and 

 B., 1944 



11. Endosporites ornatus Wilson and Coe, 

 1940 



12. Triquitrites protensus sp. nov. 



13. T. crassus sp. nov. 



14. T. pulvinatus sp. nov. 



15. Calamospora hartungiana Schopf, 1944 



16. C. straminea Wilson and Kosanke, 1944 



17. Lycospora punctata sp. nov. 



18. L. granulata sp. nov. 



19. L. pseudoannulata sp. nov. 



20. Raistrickia aculeolata Wilson and Ko- 

 sanke, 1944 



21. R. crinita sp. nov. 



22. Florinites elegans Wilson and Kosanke, 

 1944 



23. F. antiquus Schopf, 1944 



24. "Spherites" sp. 



Davis and Wiley Coal Beds 



The Davis coal bed of western Kentucky 

 and southern Illinois is correlated by simi- 

 larity of spore contents with the Wiley coal 

 bed of Fulton County, although there are 

 some minor discrepancies. This correlation 

 is in agreement with Wanless (1939). The 

 type locality is in Union County, Kentucky, 

 where the bed was originally called the 

 "4-foot coal" by Owen (1856). In 1857, 

 he called the 4-foot coal bed the No. 5 coal 

 bed of Kentucky. This coal bed was 

 named the Davis or No. 6 coal bed by Lee 

 (1916), who gives two measured sections 

 of the coal from the Davis Mine, Union 

 County, Kentucky, in which the coal bed is 

 3 feet 9 3/4 inches and 3 feet 10 inches 

 thick. One of the two sections measured 

 by Lee includes a bony clay parting in the 

 upper portion of the bed and both appear 

 to have "marcasite" layers ]/2 inch thick. 

 The Davis coal bed is known from outcrop 

 and small mining operations in southern 

 Illinois. In western Illinois the Wiley coal 

 bed lies between the Greenbush coal bed and 

 the Seahorne limestone, and ranges in thick- 

 ness from less than one foot to two feet. 

 Its exposure near Wiley, Fulton County, 

 Illinois, is in the SW. \/ A NW. ]/ A , sec. 11, 

 T. 7 N., R. 2 E. 



The following genera and species have 

 been isolated from the Davis coal bed, 

 maceration 518 A-B, Saline County, and 

 from the Wiley coal bed, maceration 525 



