340 University Geological Survey of Kansas.’ 
W., B. percarinatus Conr., Huomphalus catilloides (Conr.), 
Phillipsia major Shum., and Tainoceras occidentale (Swall.), 
together with many others. 
SERIES II. 
Series II consists of three stages. Stage C is made up of 
the Bethany Falls, Mound Valley and Dennis limestones with 
the intervening shales and the Cherryvale shales. Stage D is 
composed of the Drum limestone only. Stage E comprises the 
Chanute shales and the Iola limestone. These rocks are all 
exposed at Kansas City. Were it not for the interpolation of 
the Drum limestone with its striking fauna all the strata 
could be grouped in a single grand division. 
The strong characteristics of this series are certain species 
first appearing in Stage I, but not continuing above the Iola 
limestone, and the fact that up to the present time three spe- 
cies of fossils usually regarded as typical of the Upper Coal 
Measures have not been found below the Allen limestone. 
They are Chonetes granulifer Owen,* Entleltes hemiplicata 
Hall, and the species of the genus Fusulina. Specimens of a 
species belonging to the last genus may be found in the Cha- 
nute shales at Kansas City, but they do not become of impor- 
tance until much higher horizons are reached. Such species 
as Lima krotowi Stuck., Cleiothyris orbicularis (McChes.), 
Cryptacanthia compacta W. and St. J., Michelinia eugenex 
White, Fenestella wortheni Ulr. and Conocardium parrishi 
Worth. are unknown above the Iola limestone. To avoid repe- 
tition the other salient features peculiar to the various stages 
and formations will be found in the detailed discussion below. 
Stage C.—This stage was inaugurated by the influx of new 
faunal elements into the Kansas basin. Perhaps it should be 
called rather two than one, as fourteen such species appear in 
the Bethany Falls limestone at its base and seventeen in the 
Dennis limestone near its top. Among these species are Pin- 
-natopora triineata (Meek), Aulopora? prosseri Beede, Probos- 
cidella sp., Limopteria longispina (Cox), Pteria longa (Gein.), 
Myalina perattenuata M. and H., Aviculopecten maccoyi M. 
and H., Orbiculoidea convexa (Shum.), Pinna peracuta Shum., 
Macrodon sangamonensis Worth., Domatoceras lasallense (M. 
and W.), Myalina ampla M. and H., Sedgwickia granosum 
(Shum.), S. topekaensis (Shum.), Solenomya trapezoidea Cox, 
* An occasional specimen of this species may be found in this series, but we have 
“seen no unquestionable specimens of it. 
