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I cannot place at all, even as to family. The two last mentioned horizons remind me of those bearing similar relations about a mile SW of there. In a higher horizon, just E of the W line of sec 5 we found a fine lot of Inoceramus barabini Inoceramus barabini, many with the sulcus upon which Whitfield founded the genus Eudoceras Eudoceras, with a few I. sagensis Inoceramus sagensis and I. vanuxemi Inoceramus vanuxemi and numbers of Ostrea inornata Ostrea inornata.

Feby 17, 1907 February 17, 1907

Sievert Rohwer and I walked out to the same place to make sure of localities in afternoon and found them correct. Just S of N line of SW ¬ SW ¬ Sec 5, Tp 1 N, R. 70 W., and E of the fossil locality in that quarter section we found a 2 ft. bed of conglomerate consisting of mountain debris and angular fragments of Hygiene sandstone apparently cemented by a calcareous infiltration, at the base of the mesa boulder cap and resting directly