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numerous Baculites Baculites, perhaps both ovatus Baculites ovatus and compressus Baculites compressus, and Inoceramus barabini Inoceramus barabini. Traced this horizon northeastward for half a mile or so . The strike here is northeastward and the dip southwestward, hence Hygiene sandstone here makes a NE-SW ridge, but near N line of section it turns northward. In the gully on N side of a gulch in NE ¬ Sec 6, perhaps 300 yds W of ranch and section line fence, consequently above Hygiene sandstone, I found 3 small specimens of Scaphites nodosus Scaphites nodosus. Along the north fence of the mesa in SW ¬ sec 6 and 200 to 300 yards W of east line of section, 40 or 50 ft. below top of exposure we found a calcareous sandstone a few inches in thickness containing large numbers of Inoceramus vanuxemi Inoceramus vanuxemi. Collected about 40 specimens. Beneath this was a horizon containing I. Sagensis Inoceramus sagensis in which I found a cephalopod which is puzzling me and a fossil which