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AUG. F. FOERSTE 
17. LOCATION OF THE FOSSIL LOCALITIES IN THE KIMMSWICK OF 
RALLS AND PIKE COUNTIES, MISSOURI 
Frankford; quarried bluff below the level of the railroad, in 
the eastern part of the town. W. T. Jackson farm; from Frank- 
ford miles north, then about 1 mile east to a bluff north of 
the spring east of the farm house; in the southern part of section 
24 in R 4 W, T 55 N. Henry Hamilton; 3| miles directly north 
of Frankford, in the center of section 14, along the road north- 
west of the house, east of the creek. Big Creek; immediately 
north of the entrance of Newlon branch, on the W. G. Harvey 
farm, in the western edge of section 29, in R 5 W, T 56 N. Cave 
on H. C. Wood farm; from New London 1 mile west and then 
almost I mile north, in the eastern part of section 2. 
Sanders branch; in sections 28, 21, and 22, 5 miles northwest 
of New London. The lowest exposure occurs on the E. E. 
Priest farm, north of the junction of the two main branches of 
the creek in section 28, and contains Dinorthis pectinella. North- 
eastward, on the J. H. Luke farm, in the southeastern corner of 
section 21, ReceptacuUtes oweni and Constellaria varia are found. 
These two localities are listed under locality 1 of the accompany- 
ing table; the included strata are estimated to have a thickness 
of 15 feet and to be about 15 feet above the base of the Kimms- 
wick. Locality 2 consists of a thin limestone layer, scarcely | 
foot thick, full of fossils; it is exposed in the southwest corner of 
section 22, a considerable distance down stream from the cliff 
spring west of the home of J. W. Briscoe. This locality is esti- 
mated as 10 feet above the top of locality 1 and 15 feet below 
the level of the Briscoe spring. Locality 3 extends from the 
Briscoe spring to the road crossing east of the home of John H. 
Kirchner; its total thickness is estimated at 10 feet. Locality 
4 extends from the Kirchner road crossing to the first natural 
rock dam located on the western fork of Sanders branch on the 
Kirchner farm, and is estimated at 30 feet. Locality 5 is located 
at an elevation about 20 feet higher, and includes 5 feet of strata 
on the M. S. Warren farm, in the northwest quarter of section 
22, along a bluff exposure containing Hormotoma major associ- 
