Lozver Cretaceous of Ka?isas. — Gotdd. 13 
true position in the Comanche Cretaceous.* In December of 
the same year he named the l^asal member the Cheyenne 
sandstone, from the Cheyenne rock at Belvidere, Kansas, t 
and in 1895 the upper member was designated as the Kiowa 
shales. + Professor Robert T. Hill of the U. S. Geological 
Survey visited the region in August, 1894. The writer formed 
a member of his party and then studied the formations for 
the first time. Extensive collections of invertebrates were 
made and dicotyledenous leaves were discovered in the 
Cheyenne sandstone. Professor Hill announced the discovery 
of the leaves in June, 1895 ;§ and in September of the same 
year published an extended article "On Outlying Areas of 
the Comanche Series in Kansas, Oklahoma, and New Mex- 
ico" in which the Cheyenne flora and the Kiowa fossils are 
thoroughly discussed.! Professor Cragin, three months later 
followed with an article entitled, "A Study of the Belvidere 
beds,"^ in which he crystallized names formerly applied, 
added several new ones and formulated his Elk-Otter section 
of the Belvidere beds.** This section is here given entire not 
because the writer' may agree completely with all its subdivi- 
sions but because it may be considered as the type section and 
is a good working model. 
III. Kiowa shales. 
4. Tucumcari shales, 
3. Fullington shales, 
b. Blue Cut shales. 
a. Black hill shales. 
II. Champion shell-bed. 
1. Cheyenne sandstone. 
2. Elk Creek beds. 
b. Stokes sandstone, 
a. Lanphier beds, 
I. Corral sandstone. 
The last two papers mentioned are somewhat controversial 
in character; professor Hill contending that the beds "repre- 
*Loc. Cit., vol. II, p. 33. 
tibid., p. 65. 
^Colorado College Studies, vol. V, pp. 4969, 1895. 
^American Journal of Science, 3d Series, vol. 49, p. 473, 1895. 
Illbid., vol. 50, pp. 205-235. 
* American Geologist, vol. XVI, pp. 357-386, 1895. 
**Ibid., p. 361. 
