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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1917 Excerpt:...fossiliferous. The following are the fossils collected from this bed: Fusulina cylindrical, Lophophyllum proliferum, Chonetes verneuiliana, Chonetes granulifera, Lingula unbonatnf, Discina convexa, 'Athyris sp.f, Athyris subtilita, Hemipronites crassus, Productus semireticulatus, P. longispinus, P. cora, P. nebrascensis, P. flemingif, Retzia mormoni, Rynchonella sp.f, R. utaf, Spirifer plano-convexa, S. cameratus, S4 lineatus, S. texana, Terebratula bovidens, Oonularia crustula, Pleurotomaria sphacrulata, P. tabulata, P. brazoensis, Bellerophon carbonarius, Euomphalus rugosus, E. sp.f, Macrocheilus primigenius sp.f, Polyphemopsisf inormata, Nautilus sp.f, Goniatite sp.f, Conocardium obliquum, Myalina subquadrata, Nuculana bellistriata, Nucula ventricosa, Schizodus wheeieri. 12. Campophyllum Bed This limestone bed is especially distinguished by the great number of the cup coral (Campophylum torquium) which it contains. There is probably no place where a full section of the bed is exposed that abundant specimens of this fossil do not occur, and only a few specimens have been found in any other bed. It is mostly a massive, rough-weathering, hard, blue limestone, but partings of marl or friable limestone occur at some localities. This bed outcrops from the escarpment west of Post creek to the west along Brady creek to fully three miles west of Brady, and extends northward under the Brady mountains at the head of Live Oak creek; from the north side of the Brady mountains it extends down to the Colorado river between Bluff and Cow creeks. It crosses Home creek at the mouth of Camp creek, and widens from Home creek to the north, till opposite Trickham it is fully three miles wide. From three miles below Trickham to four or five miles above, the western outcrop or...