121 



Oaul. 



Caulopteris obtecta. Lesq. Illinois Geol. Vol. 4, pi. 28, 

 fig. i_4. Coal Flora Penna., 1880, p. 344, pi, 59, fig. 8.— In 

 Darlington Coal, Beaver Co., Pa., Q. 55. — XIIL 



Caulopteris punctata. Lesquereux. Geol. Pa., Vol. 2, p. 



K^^ » ''V-'" 'ir 

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869, pi. 13, f. 1 ; scars two inches long; margin of scars curved 

 into horns upward ; space between scars thickly dotted with 

 round points, like glands, but probably the bases of rootlets 

 which have been broken off; a beautiful species; found in the 

 Gate Vein, Pottsville, Pa. — Anthracite, XIII, 



Caulopteris, one of the characteristic fossil plants of the 

 first and second mountain sands of Venango Co., Pa. Carll in 

 I, p. 37, 38.— X 



Cave fossils. See Arvicola, Bos, Castoroides, Dicotyles, 

 Erithizon, Equus, Felis, Hesperomys, Ja cuius, Masto- 

 don, Megalonyx, Mylodon, Platygonus, Scalops, Sciu- 

 rus, Tapirus, Ursus, Vespertilio. The exact age in which 

 the remains of these creatures were swept into the caves can- 

 not be fixed ; but the deposits were made slowly or rapidly in 



