Arroic-Hcad Found i)i Kansas — JJ'illiston. 315 
Overlying- this there was twenty feet of the so-called plains- 
marl. Below the bone layer there was a four-inch layer of a 
sandy conglomerate, which rested directly upon the Niobrara 
chalk, here foniiing- a bluff to the north of the bone deposit. 
The bone bed when cleared off was about ten feet square, and 
contained the skeletons of five or six adult animals, and two 
or three yovmger ones, together with a foetal skeleton within 
the pelvis of one of the adult skeletons. The animals had 
evidently all perished together, during the winter. There was 
no possibility of the accidental intrusion of the arrow-head in 
the place where found, as the superincumbent material had all 
been removed ten feet back before exposing the skeleton. It 
must have been within the body of the animal at the time of 
death, or have been lying on the surface beneath its body." 
The material covering the skeletons was the wide-spread 
upland marl, doubtless in part of wind origin. In the same 
material, and not far distant from the place where the bones 
were exhumed, I have obtained bones of Elcphas priinigcnius, 
a species characteristic of the Equus Beds. 
A brief notice of this discovery was published by me in 
Vol. II, Kansas University Geological Survey (1896) in a dis- 
cussion of the Pleistocene fauna of Kansas. 
DISCOVERY OF THE LARAMIE IN NEBRASKA. 
By C. \. Fisher, I-,incoln, Neb. 
PLATE XVIII. 
The geology of Nebraska presents broad structural feat- 
ures. The shales, clays, and partlv cemented sands of the 
Cretaceous and Tertiary occupy the surface throughout a large 
part of the state, with the underlying Carboniferous limestone 
Outcropping in the southeast corner. The stratigraphic rela- 
tions are very uniform with few regional disturbances, bring- 
ing underlying formations to the surface. As a result of these 
conditions, few formations are represented in the state. Con- 
sidering the limited number, the mere fact that the Laramie 
formation does occur in Nebraska, however small the area 
may be, seems worthy of mention. 
Hitherto, the Cretaceous formation in Nebraska was 
thought to be represented by the Dakota, I'enton, Niobrara, 
and Pierre, occuring in successive order from east to west in 
