collected N of Left Hand in the Benton Cretaceous. In the Niobrara shales, just above the basal limestone, we found the Inoceramus deformis greatly flattened, except one or two specimens. This may have been due to pressure, but it did not appear to be. They are in a yielding shale. Thence we took the road connecting the roads along the E and W lines of Secs. 30 and 31 and near where it connects with the E section road, not far below the Hygiene sandstone I found a sea urchin, Baculites ovatus, Inoceramus barabini and Heteroceras sp.
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