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Cragin states that he had formerly used the name Belvidere in 
manuscript as a designation for the Comanche shales of southern 
Kansas, but rejected the name on account of its similarity to the 
Belvedere beds, a name applied to certain Tertiary sands of Austria. 
He proposes, however, that if the term Belvidere be retained, it be 
used as a name for the division to which he refers the Cheyenne 
sandstone, Champion shell-bed and Kiowa shales, which is identical 
with the usage already proposed by Professor Hill for this term in 
his ‘Plains Section” in the article just reviewed! A part of this 
paper is devoted to a discussion of the former one of Professor 
Till’s and is of a controversial nature. Professor Cragin here 
suggests for the first time, a number of names for divisions of the 
Cheyenne sandstone and Kiowa shales. ‘The lower part of the 
Cheyenne sandstone is termed the Corral sandstone which “is so 
named from having a considerable portion of its thickness exposed 
in the walls of the ‘Natural Corral.’ The latter is a short box 
canyon on the Lanphier claim in the southeastern corner of Kiowa 
county.”* The upper part of the Cheyenne sandstone is termed the 
Iik creek beds, and they are separated into two subdivisions 
termed respectively the Lanphier beds and the Stokes sandstone. 
The Lanphier beds ‘“‘frequently observed but not treated’ of hitherto 
by the writer, have recently been described by Professor Hill, be- 
ing No. 2 of his Black Hills and Blue Cut sections. * * * The 
Lanphier beds pass gradually upward into the similarly leaf-bearing 
Stokes sandstone, a few feet in thickness (No. 3 of Professor Hill’s 
Black Hill’s section).”? For the thin stratum of gray shale-conglom- 
erate which caps the Cheyenne sandstone at Belvidere, its upper 
surface forming the floor beneath the paper shales, Professor 
Sragin proposes the name Champion shell-bed. This division is 
evidently regarded as a formation by Professor Cragin who gives 
it a rank equal to that of the Cheyenne sandstone and Kiowa shales. 
Following the description of the Champion shell-bed is a list of its 
fauna which numbers thirty six species, twenty two of which are 
known to extend into the Kiowa Shales, though it is stated that the 
number of species common to the Champion and Kiowa will prob- 
1 American Journal vol. L, p. 211. 
7 SOO, ‘Cita 1D, KR, 
3 Ibid., pp. 367, 368. 
