88 The American Geologist. August, 1883 
In the bluffs near Hall's station, Buchanan county, and on 
Niagara creek, Andrew county, are found a number of plants 
in thin clay shale lamina- interstratified with a coal seam. 
At one place on Big Drywood, Vernon county, five miles 
south of Deerfield, Conostychus has been found. Fusulina 
abound in some of the Lower limestones, but at long intervals 
are rare until we reach the upper one-hall' of the Upper Coal 
Measures. In the shales near the hilltop at Kansas City are 
many tine forms of Crinoidea showing all their parts. ( ha- 
tetes milleporaceus abounds in large masses in the Lower 
Measures. Conularia crustula has only been found in Kansas 
City. Syntrilasma hemiplicata is found in the Upper Coal 
Measures only. 
Above the highest observed strata in Nodaway and the 
southern part of Holt county there is a calculated gap of 50 
feet, covered by loe><. but which may e<msi-t of sandy shales 
as observed on the Missouri river blurt's in Nebraska between 
White Cloud and the Big Nemaha. 
Beginning in the bluffs in the northwest part of Holt county 
and extending to the northwest part of Atchinson county, are 
a -eries of limestones, sandstones and shales which may be 
Permian. A condensed section of these beds i> as follows, 
counting from the top : 
1 — 58 feet of sandstone and shales, the latter green and red. 
2 — 5 1 * feet of limestone. 
3—2 inches of clay. 
4--2 inches of coal. 
5 — 22 feet of sandy shales. 
6 — 3 feet of green and red shales with nodular layers of limestone. 
7 — i feet of brown Fusulina limestone. 
8—28 feet of shales. 
9—3 feet of limestone and shales with fossils. 
10 — 12 feet of sandstone and shales with fossil Lamellabranchs. 
11 — 3 feet of limestone and shales-fossils. The limestone is jointed 
and contains Productus semireticiilatus var. Calhounianus Sw. 
12 — ;!1 feet shales, olive and red, with ironstone. 
13 — Shelly limestone, containing Sp. (Martyniai plano-convea 
Fossils obtained from the Atchison beds were Productus 
calhounianus, J', concinnvs, /'. splendeus, P. var. wabashensis, 
P. prattenianus, Spirifer cameratus, Sp. planoconvexus, Cho- 
,n 'is Jlemingii, Ch. smith/'''. Athyris subtilita, Jihynchonella 
{'in. Syntrilasma hemiplicata, Euomphalus rugosus, Nautilus 
