22 The Amefican Geologist. Jannary, iguu 
boxed in the field. * * '" When I shall get to work study- 
ing them I cannot say, though it will probably be within six 
or eight months. * * * I regard them in a general way 
similar to the flora of the Amboy clays but it would not do to 
be too specific in such statem^its. It only means that they are 
mostly dicotyledons of similar types and appear to represent 
about the same geological horizon. The genera and species 
will probably dififer widely and yet I expect many of them, 
especially the genera, to be the same. Exactly the same remark 
would apply to the Tuscaloosa formation of tho south." Dr. 
Ward's report of the leaves will be awaited with much interest 
by the geological world. 
The leaves were collected in dozens of different places in all 
directions from Belvidere. A list of the most prolific localities 
is given for the benefit of future collectors: 
Osage rock. 
Mouth of Bull draw two and one-half miles northwest of Belvidere. 
One mile west of the mouth of Thompson creek. 
Both sides of middle Wild Cat (Champion) draw one-half to three- 
fourths of a mile south of Belvidere. 
One hundred to three hundred yards north and south of the Natural 
Corral five miles southeast of Belvidere. 
In first draw west of Soldier creek, one mile northwest of the rail- 
road bridge. 
So far as known no animal fossils have been found in the 
Cheyenne sandstone. 
c. The Kioiua Shales. 
\. Stratigraphy. 
The Kiowa shales rest conformably on the Cheyenne but 
differ from it radically both stratigraphically and paleontologi- 
cally. The deposits are marine and the fossils are, with few 
exceptions, marine also. The formation in the Belvidere 
locality is about one himdred and fifty feet thick. 
The lower member, the Champion shell-bed, between the 
Kiowa proper and the Cheyenne is so distinct as to warrant 
formation rank by professor Cragin.* Professor Prosser, 
however, considers it the lower member of the Kiowa .t The 
American Journal Science, 3d series, vol. XLIX, p. 473, 1895. 
*Loc. cit., p. 363. 
tLoc. cit., p. 1 14. 
