62 University of Kansas Geological Survey. 
distinctly laminated. Part of the shales are covered with dendritic 
markings which are common on many of the Upper Permian shales. 
A bout five miles west of the Benfield quarry, and perhaps a little 
lower, Professor Cragin reports an abandoned quarry, the upper 
stratum of which is a 10 inch “bastard limestone” that was used 
in the early settlement of Salina for walling wells, etc. Upon this 
limestone stratum it is reported that reptilian footprints were 
noticed some years since!, though there seems to be no well authenti- 
cated record of the correctness of this determination. 
On the east side of East Dry creek, in the southern part of section 
21, Greeley township, three miles southeast of Salina is a small 
quarry, at the bottom of which, now nearly covered, are thin brown- 
ish yellow limestones with blackish specks, which contain fossils 
that are the typical small Lamellibranchs of the Marion, and the 
following species were obtained: 
Ihe ALO (WOPROMGWUBED IM, CG TEL. 6560000000 00006 000000000006 r 
2s, SACGUPRODMOPUS SHDGYIMETUS WL, 65 Ib oc coco ob 900008 sb vcoKs0KE Cc 
a. Bakevellia parva Mi. cel: SAE) 4 ATE LRN ea AcE aR r 
4. Small Lamellibranch ; somewhat like Plewrophorus, possibly 
JS OOMMCG O8 INGMVBOCKWIS.: 5 666'3,66.0.5008's ddd b 001006085000 b05¢ a 
In that vicinity a number of loose pieces of the Marion or a very, 
similar limestone were noticed containing specimens of Bakevelliu 
parva M. & H. Above the limestone are creamy to buff colored 
shales with reticulated or dendritic markings, 6 feet thick, covered 
by 3 feet of soil. 
Three miles south and two miles east of Salina, on the eastern 
bank of the Smoky Hill river, on the southwest quarter of section 
29, Greeley township, is the Bacott quarry, in which a stratum of 
limestone 14 feet thick has been worked to quite an extent for com- 
mon building stone. The exposures along the bank of the river 
show slight rolls, the rocks being folded into gentle anticlines and 
synclines. In one place there is quite a sharp dip to the south 
amounting to 8 feet in a short distance, when the dip turns to west 
of north. 
1 F. W. Cragin, Colorado College Studies, Vol. VI, p. 13. 
