FAUNA OF THE ELY GROUP, NEVADA 903 presence of the spines precludes erosion of margin of this marginal flange is crenulate. the costae. The median septum is quite low in the From each of the ears, two spines arise. posterior portion of the shell, becoming high An outer, coarse spine is directed posteriorly at the anterior margin of the visceral disc. in the same plane as the lateral margin of At the anterior margin of the visceral disc, the ear. An inner, smaller spine, quite short there is a row of from eight to ten coarse, and slender, is half the distance from the short spines. These spines are arranged in an beak to the tip of the ear, and is directed arc in front of each brachial impression. A dorsally. typical specimen is 15 mm. in length, 21 The brachial valve is moderately concave mm. in width, and 10 mm. in thickness. except for the margin which is produced by Discussion.—Lissomarginifera nuda differs crowded growth lines which form a shelf- from Kozlowskia splendens (Norwood & like margin. The width of this marginal Pratten) in that L. nuda lacks a sulcus and shelf is about one-fourth the length of the essentially lacks surface ornamentation. It brachial valve, and it extends along the lat- also has a high median septum that reaches eral margins almost to the hinge-line. the anterior edge of the visceral disc, whereas Internally, the features of the brachial K. splendens has a low median septum that valve are distinctive. Beginning at the does not reach the margin of the visceral cardinal process, a flange-like ridge extends disc. around the periphery, and the posterior Locality.—309.

EXPLANATION OF PLATE 128 FIGS. 1,2—Hustedia rotunda, n. sp. 1, interior showing spire, USC 5077, XI , 2, interior showing orna- mentation of the jugum, USC 5104, X3. 3-7—Spirifer occiduus Sadlick. 3, pedicle interior showing thickening along the hinge-line, USC, 5078, X1; 4,5, brachial exterior brachial interior, USC 5079 X1; 6,7 pedicle exterior, pedicle interior USC 5080, XI. 8—Composita subtilita (Hall). Pedicle exterior, USC 5081, XI. 9-11—Neospirifer triplicatus (Hall). 9, pedicle exterior showing mucronate extremities, USC 8052, XI \ 10, pedicle exterior of a portion of an extremely large specimen, USC 5083, X1; 11, pedicle exterior of a typical specimen, USC 5102X1. 12—Nuculana sp. Left valve of a poorly preserved specimen, USC 5085, X3. 13—Astartella sp. Right valve, USC 5084, X3. 14,15—Conocardium sp. Left valve, cardinal view of a very small specimen, USC 5086, X3. 16—Meekospira sp. Side view, USC 5087, X3. 17—Leptozyga sp. Side view, USC 5089, X3. 18—Pseudorthoceras sp. Side view, USC 5091, X3. 19—Platyceras sp. Side view, USC 5090, X3. 20—Baylea sp. Side view, USC 5088, X3. 21—Spirorbis sp. Tightly coiled shell, USC 5092, X3. 22—Amphiscapha sp. Basal view, USC 5096, X3. 23—Bellerophon sp. Back view showing ornamentation, USC 5093, X3. 24—Crinoid cup in which the anal plate is shown within the basal circlet, USC 5097, XL 25,26—Ditomopyge ? sp. 25, pygidium, USC 5098, XI; 26, a free cheek and a portion of a py- gidium, USC 5099, XL 27—Conularid. External mold, USC 5100, XL 28—Dentalium sp. Side view showing ornamentation, USC 5094, X3. 29—Plagioglypta sp. Side view. Spirorbis is encrusted on the surface, USC 5095, XL 30—Archimedes sp. Side view of the spire, USC 5101, XI. 904 BERNARD 0. LANE

Genus LINOPRODUCTUS Chao, 1927 one or more (usually two or three) costae. LINOPRODUCTUS MAGNISPINUS Dunbar & These costae separate on the anterior edge Condra, 1932 of the spine base. Pl. 126, fig. 2 Internally the adductor muscle scars are Linoproductus magnispinus Dunbar & Condra, closely spaced, being separated only by a 1932, p. 244, pl. XXVII, figs. 6-8. low median ridge. The diductors are widely Description.—Shell is elongate with great- separated and somewhat tear-shaped, the est width along hinge-line. Pedicle valve is attenuated portion being directed toward geniculate and its beak is incurved. Shell the center of the valve. is thin and ornamented with numerous lira- Locality.—309. tions. In a typical shell, there are seven or eight lirations in the space of 5 mm. across Suborder SPIRIFERINA the middle of the pedicle valve. A few stout Superfamily SPIRIFERICAE spines are scattered over the surface with Family SPIRIFERIDAE one or two in the center of a slight mesial Subfamily SPIRIFERINAE sulcus. Five or six spines are on each ear Genus SPIRIFER Sowerby, 1815 and are smaller than the body spines. The SPIRIFER OCCIDUUS Sadlick, 1960 bases of the spines are formed at the anasto- Pl. 128, figs. 3-7 mosing of three or four lirations, which sepa- Spirifer opimus var. occidentalis Girty, 1927, rate on the anterior side of the spine. Ears p. 433, pl. 27. Spirifer occiduus Sadlick, 1960, p. 1210. are of moderate size and are somewhat angular. Four or five wrinkles appear on Description.—Shell is spiriferoid in shape, each ear but fade away on the anterolateral the width being a little greater than the slopes. length, and the greatest width is at the The brachial valve is somewhat concave, hinge-line. A shell of average size has the although the visceral disc is rather flat. At following dimensions: width, 4.2 cm.; length the trail the valve is sharply geniculate. 2.7 cm. The cardinal extremities may be A typical specimen is 3.8 cm. in width slightly mucronate, but they are usually and 4.6 mm. in length. somewhat rounded. Locality.—316. Eleven to thirteen subangular plications mark the slopes of the pedicle valve. At LINOPRODUCTUS PRATTENIANUS (Norwood the umbo, the ribs are simple, but as they & Pratten, 1855) begin to expand, they bifurcate and con- Pl. 126, fig. 1 tinue over the surface as simple plications. Productus prattenianus Norwood & Pratten, 1855, The sulcus contains three to five ribs of p. 17, pl. 1, figs. lOa-d. which the medial one is commonly rather Description.—Shell is suboval in outline. prominent. The beak is slightly incurved. Pedicle valve is uniformly convex and almost Brachial fold is well defined, usually having hemispherical. Greatest width is at the from four to six plications. hinge-line. Shell is geniculate at the trail. Short, stout dental lamellae support the A typical specimen is 4.8 cm. wide. teeth of the pedicle valve but do not extend Low, rounded costae radiate from the out onto the floor of the valve. Adductor beak and increase by intercalation across the muscle scars are deeply incised, and the valve. Costae also increase in coarseness scar itself is usually saggitate in shape. towards the anterior slope. In the umbonal This area is bounded by rounded, almost region ten or eleven costae occupy a space flabellate diductor scars. The valve is with- of 5 mm., whereas seven or eight occupy the out a median septum. same space across the visceral portion of the Incipient deltidal plates border the del- pedicle valve. thyrium which forms a high narrow triangle. Spines are coarse and erect and uniformly Interarea is broad and flat, the palintrope disposed over the pedicle valve in a quin- of which is serrate. The space beneath the cunxial pattern. Thirty-two spines are pres- interarea of the pedicle valve is usually ent on the visceral portion of a shell 4.8 much thickened. cm wide. Spine bases may be formed from Brachial interiors are simple without FAUNA OF THE ELY GROUP, NEVADA 905 median septa. There is a thin interarea found among a myriad small shells. These which is cleft by a broad notothyrium. The crurithyrids are also somewhat smaller latter is bounded by short brachiophores. than those recorded from other localities. Locality.—320, 321. An average specimen measures 5 mm. in width and 4.5 mm. in width. Genus NEOSPIRIFER Fredericks 1919 Locality.—309. NEOSPIRIFER TRIPLICATUS (Hall, 1852) PI. 128, figs. 9-11 Superfamily ROSTROSPIRICAE Spirifer triplicatus Hall, 1852, Append. E, p. 410. Family RHYNCHOSPIRINIDAE Genus HUSTEDIA Hall & Clark, 1893 Description.—Shell is of medium size, HUSTEDIA ROTUNDA, n. sp. typically about 5 to 7 cm. in width and 4 to PI. 127, figs. 42-45; text-fig. 8 5 cm. in length. Outline is subtriangular, and cardinal extremities are sharply defined. A Description.—Shell sub-ovate in outline, narrow sulcus bounded by two distinct ribs greatest width just anterior to middle por- begins at the umbo and fans out into a tion of the shell, greatest thickness just broad shallow depression on the anterior anterior to brachial beak. Anterior margin slope. The ribs bifurcate just anterior to slightly truncated in some specimens, and a the umbo and increase thereafter by bifur- vague sulcus is present on some pedicle cation. Towards the anterior, the fascicles valves. The surface is marked by 20 to 24 usually consist of three subrounded ribs costellae with an average of 22. Costellae which are unequal in size. There are from are rounded, equal to the depressions that ten to twelve fascicles present on a mature separate them, and are of uniform size in shell. the center of the shell, decreasing rapidly Ornamentation of the brachial valve is in size towards the posterolateral margins. similar to that of the pedicle valve except Pedicle valve more convex towards the that there are commonly one or two fewer beak. Beak sub-erect. Foramen terminal, fascicles on the brachial valve. sub-circular. Symphytium small, triangular Locality—309, 327. with the apex truncated by the foramen. Posterior end is parallel with the line of Subfamily AMBOCOELIINAE George commissure. Internally muscle scars are not Genus CRURITHYRIS George, 1931 visible, and there are no dental lamellae. CRURITHYRIS PLANOCONVEXA (Shumard, The brachial valve is more rounded in 1855) outline than the pedicle valve, being almost PI. 127, figs. 34,35 oval and is slightly less convex. Internally a Spirifer plano-convexa, Shumard, 1855, p. 202. short median septum extends anteriorly one-fourth the length of the valve and sup- Description.—Shell is small, plano-convex ports a tongue-like cardinal process which is with the length and width about equal. recurved into the pedicle valve. Pedicle valve is quite convex, hinge-line Internally the spiralia appear as com- short and straight, being about five-eights of the greatest width of the shell. Beak is high and incurved. Interarea is a high, nar- row triangle, the flat surface of which con- trasts sharply with the rounded surface of the posterolateral margins. Delthyrium is high and narrow, and bounded on the sides by low flanges. Brachial valve is variably concave, flat or convex. The surface of both valves appears granu- lar. Dunbar and Condra (1932, p. 345) state that these granules represent minute spine bases. Discussion.—C. planoconvexa is rare in the Ely limestone, only seven specimens being Hustedia rotunda, about X7. 906 BERNARD 0. LANE pressed cones of eight volutions and the subriangular, posterior portion slightly in- outer rims are marked by numerous minute curved towards the pedicle interior. Ante- spines. The yoke is highly ornamented with rior portion lies in a plane with the line of spines and antler-like processes (text-fig. 8). commissure. Dimensions (in mm.) of seven typical Brachial valve is oval and slighly less shells are as follows: convex than the pedicle valve. Internally No. of this species resembles Hustedia rotunda. Length Width Thickness costellae Discussion.—This species of Hustedia is 12.7 9.8 7.4 24 distinguished from H. rotunda by its 14.1 11.5 9.1 22 coarser costae, uniform decrease in size of 11.7 9.1 6.9 22 costae towards lateral margin and more 10.6 9.0 6.8 22 8.0 6.7 4.8 24 nearly oval brachial valve; from H. miseri 9.9 7.9 6.6 20 and H. mormoni by its rounded and more numerous costae and more gibbous nature Discussion.—Well preserved specimens of of the valves. Hustedia rotunda are easily distinguished Locality.—309. from other Pennsylvanian species of that genus. Hustedia rotunda differs from H. Family ATHYRIDAE miseri Mather in that the latter has "about Subfamily ATHYRINAE 20 . . . plications," whereas H. rotunda has Genus CLEIOTHYRIDINA Buckman, 1906 an average of 22. The costellae are coarse CLEIOTHYRIDINA ORBICULARIS and of equal strength in the central portion (McChesney, 1860) of the shell, decreasing markedly in size Pl. 127, figs. 36,37 towards the lateral margins. The most strik- Athyris orbicularis McChesney, 1860, p. 47. ing characteristic of this species, however, is Cleiothyridina orbicularis (McChesney), Dunbar the almost circular outline of the brachial & Condra, 1932, p. 359, pl. XLII, figs. 1-4. valve, separating it from any other species Description.—Shell is almost equally bi- of Hustedia, which consistently have elongate convex, sub-oval in outline. Anterolateral outlines. Rounded costae of Hustedia ro- and posterolateral margins tend to be some- tunda also serve to distinguish it from H. what straight, however, causing outline to miseri which has markedly angular costae. be slightly angular. Greatest width is just Hustedia mormoni may be differentiated posterior to the middle of the shell; greatest from H. rotunda by the smaller number of thickness is about in the center of the shell. costae in H. mormoni. Anterior margin may be truncated, and a Locality.—309. vague sulcus may be present on the pedicle valve. HUSTEDIA MISERI subsp. Pedicle valve is more gibbous than the GIBBOSA, n. subsp. brachial valve. Pedicle beak is incurved Pl. 127, figs. 38-41 and erect with a small circular foramen at Description.—Shell oval in outline, some- the tip. Deltidal plates are not seen, and what incurved toward the beak. Anterior palintrope is small. end and anterolateral margins tend to be Surfaces of both valves are marked with truncated causing the oval outline in some irregularly spaced, concentric lamellae. The specimens to appear polygonal. A vague anterior margins of the lamellae are pro- sulcus is present on the pedicle valve with- duced into minute spines, causing well out a corresponding fold on the brachial preserved specimens to appear almost fuzzy. valve. Twenty to twenty-four rounded The largest specimen observed in the costellae are present on both valves. These collection is 13.5 mm. in length, 15.2 mm. costellae are coarse in the middle of each in width and 8.1 mm. thick. Several speci- valve and decrease progressively in size mens approach this size and some fragments towards the lateral margins. indicate that definitely larger specimens The pedicle valve increases in convexity exist; however, the average length is some- towards the beak. Beak sub-erect. Foramen what smaller than 15 mm. terminal, subcircular. Symphytium small, Locality.—309. FAUNA OF THE ELY GROUP, NEVADA 907

Genus COMPOSITA Brown, 1849 The anterior of the shell is emarginate. COMPOSITA ARGENTEA (Shepard, 1838) Concentric growth lines are irregularly PI. 127, figs. 31-33 spaced over the surface of both valves. Terebratula argentea Shepard, 1838, p. 152, fig. 8. An average specimen has the following dimensions: length, 27 mm.; width, 25 mm.; Description.—Shell small, suboval in out- thickness, 16 mm. line, greatest width about mid-region. Locality.—313. Length approximately equal to width. Valves are nearly equally convex, with Superfamily PUNCTOSPIRICAE brachial valve being perhaps more so. Family SPIRIFERINIDAE Pedicle beak is low and incurved; in many Genus PUNCTOSPIRIFER North, 1920 shells the beak is only slightly more promi- nent than that of the brachial valve. The Internally, the pedicle valve bears a high foramen is often obscure, but when present median septum and short, strong dental it is small and oval. There is no interarea. lamellae. In the brachial valve the jugum is The surfaces of both valves are character- slender and V-shaped with its apex directed ized by closely spaced, concentric growth posteriorly and into the pedicle valve. lines. The anterior commissure is gently PUNCTOSPIRIFER CAMPESTRIS (White, sinuate, reflecting a shallow pedicle sulcus 1874) and an almost obsolete brachial fold. PI. 127, figs. 22-29 Dimensions of an average specimen are as Spiriferina spinosa var. campestris White, 1874, follows: length, 16.5 mm.; width, 16 mm.; p. 21. height 17 mm.; thickness 11 mm. Spiriferina octoplicata Sowerby, White, 1877, Discussion.—This writer follows the argu- p. 139, pi. X, figs. 8a-8c. ments of Dunbar and Condra in using the Diagnosis.—Shell biconvex, greatest name C. argentea to distinguish small, width at or near hingeline, cardinal ex- subcircular compositas. Shells of this de- tremities may be either rounded or angular. scription occur commonly in the basal Ely, Interarea is a low, broad triangle, longi- and it is felt that the species can be distin- tudinally concave. guished readily. Pedicle valve is more gibbous than the Locality.—313. brachial valve. The beak is incurved, small COMPOSITA SUBTILITA (Hall, 1852) and pointed. From the beak arise four sub- PI. 128, fig. 8 rounded plications, the others arising in- Terebratula subtilita Hall, 1852, p. 409, pi. IV, distinctly from either side of the beak. In a figs. la-2c. shell measuring 27 mm. wide and 18.8 mm. Composita subtilita (Hall), Dunbar & Condra, long, twelve costae lie on either side of the 1932, p. 363, pi. XLIII, figs. 7-13. sulcus. The floor of the sulcus is distinctly Description.—Shell oval, greatest width is flattened. anterior to the midregion of the shell, The brachial valve is smaller than the width is almost two-thirds the length. pedicle and is less gibbous. There are six Pedicle beak is prominent, incurved and costae on either side of the mesial fold. In obscures the brachial beak. Pedicle valve various mature specimens, this number bears a deep sulcus at the anterior margin varies from five to six. The angularity of where it is almost uniformly rounded. To- the costae is inconsistent as well, so that a ward the central part of the valve, the sul- gradation from rounded to angular may be cus becomes narrow and shallow and re- seen. The surface of both valves is orna- mains so until it reaches the umbonal region. mented with concentric, irregularly spaced A narrow fold beings near the beak of the growth lines. These lines may be obsolete in brachial valve and continues almost im- the early stages, but when they are present, perceptibly across the central portion of the they usually show rounded cardinal ex- valve. Near the anterior margin, the antero- tremities even if the later ones are angular. lateral margins sweep down sharply toward Short spines may be present on the anterior the pedicle valve, thus forming a very third of both valves. prominent fold just at the anterior margin. Discussion.—This species of Puncto 908 BERNARD 0. LANE spirifer differs from P. transversus in that 313. They are referred to two common P. transversus has numerous, evenly spaced Pennsylvanian genera. growth lines and the mesial fold is bilobed; from P. spinosus in that the latter has Genus DENTALIUM Linnaeus, 1758 evenly spaced, rounded growth lines, a DENTALIUM sp. semicircular periphery, and is much smaller Pl. 128, fig. 28 in size than P. campestris; and from P. kentuckeyensis in that P. kentuckeyensis Genus PLAGIOGLYPTA Pilsbry, 1898 possesses evenly spaced growth lines and a PLAGIOGLYPTA sp. small plication in the bottom of the sulcus. Pl. 128, fig. 29 Locality.—309. Class GASTROPODA PUNCTOSPIRIFER TRANSVERSUS Gastropods are much more commonly (McChesney, 1860) represented in the Ely Limestone than are PL. 127, fig. 30 the pelecypods, but they occur at only a few Spirifer transversa McChesney, 1860, p. 42. places; they are most common at USC Spiriferina transversa (McChesney), 1915, p. 92, locality 313. Since almost all of the shells pl. XIII, figs. 7,8. are small, it is assumed that they represent One specimen of Punctospirifer transversus a sorting phenomenon rather than an eco- was discovered in the Ely Limestone. The logical association. One genus, Baylea, oc- surface ornamentation and the small ridge curs rather commonly with Amphiscapha in in the pedicle sinus seem to place this silicified strata in the upper part of the Ely Punctospirifer unmistakably in the species at USC locality 309. However, the shells are P. transversus. P. transversus is usually still quite small, averaging only about 5 associated with Mississippian fauna. Mather, mm. in length. A few large specimens of a however (1915, p. 192), reported it from species of Euomphalus are present in the Morrowan rocks in Arkansas. It is here re- collection; however, these are not silicified ported from younger Pennsylvanian rocks and occur only as fragments. The most than heretofore. common of the genera present are listed Locality.—324. below. Some specimens are referred only tentatively to a genus. Phylum MOLLUSCA Class PELECYPODA Genus MEEKOSPIRA Ulrich and Several small pelecypods are present in Scofield, 1897 the collections from the lower Ely Lime- MEEKOSPIRA sp. stone. These specimens are poorly pre- Pl. 128, fig. 16 served and somewhat rare, being found at Genus? LEPTOZYGA Knight, 1930 only one locality (USC 313). Three of these LEPTOZYGA sp. pelecypods are referred to the following Pl. 128, fig. 17 genera: Genus BAYLEA Koninck, 1883 Genus ASTARTELLA Hall, 1858 BAYLEA sp. ASTARTELLA sp. Pl. 128, fig. 20 Pl. 128, fig. 13 Genus PLATYCERAS Conrad, 1840 Genus NUCULANA Link, 1807 PLATYCERAS sp. NUCULANA sp. Pl. 128, fig. 12 PL. 128, fig. 19 Genus AMPHISCAPHA Knight, 1942 Genus CONOCARDIUM Bronn, 1834 AMPHISCAPHA sp. CONOCARDIUM sp. Pl. 128, figs. 14-15 Pl. 128, fig. 22 Class SCAPHOPODA Genus EUOMPHALUS, Sowerby, 1814 Two scaphopods were collected from the EUOMPHALUS sp. lower portion of the section at USC locality Not figured FAUNA OF THE ELY GROUP, NEVADA 911

MURPHY, D. R., 1954, Fauna of the Morrowan of Ely, Nevada: U. S. Geol. Survey Prof. rocks of central Utah: Brigham Young Univ. Paper 96, 189 p., maps. Research Studies, Geol. Ser., v. 1, no. 3, 64 p. STEHLI, F. G., 1954, Lower Leonardian Brachio- NORTH, F. J., 1920, On Syringothyris Winchell poda of the Sierra Diablo: Bull. Amer. Mus. and certain Carboniferous brachiopoda re- Nat. Hist., v. 105, art. 3, 358 p. lerred to Spiriferina D'Orbigny: Quart. Jour. THOMPSON, M. L., 1942, Pennsylvanian in New Geol. Soc. London, v. 76, p. 162-227. Mexico: New Mexico School Mines Bull. 17, NORWOOD, J. C., & PRATTEN, H., 1854, Notice of 90 p., ils. Producti found in the Western States and , 1948, Protozoa; Studies of American Territories, with descriptions of twelve new Fusulinids: Kansas Univ. Paleontology Contr., species: Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, v. 3, no. 4, art. 1, 184 p., illus. p. 5-31, il. WELLER, STUART, 1898, A bibliographic index of OWEN, D. D., 1852, Report of a geological survey North American Carboniferous invertebrates: of Wisconsin, Iowa, and Minnesota and inci- Bull. U. S. Geol. Survey, no. 153, 653 p. dentally of a portion of Nebraska Terr.: 38, WHITE, C. A., 1874, Preliminary report upon 638 p., map, illus., Philadelphia. invertebrate fossils collected by expeditions of PLUMMER, F. B., 1920, The Carboniferous rocks 1871, 1872 and 1873, with descriptions of new of the Llano region of central Texas: Texas species: U. S. Geog. Survey west of the 100th Univ. Pub. 4329. Merid., 27 p. SADLICK, WALTER, 1960, New name for Spirifer , 1877, Report upon the invertebrate fossils occidentalis (Girty) and its geologic history: collected in portions of Nevada, Utah, Colo- Jour. Paleontology, v. 34, no. 6, p. 1210-1214. rado, New Mexico, and Arizona . . . : U. S. SHUMARD, B. F., 1855, Geological section on the Geog. Survey west of the 100th Merid., pt. 4, Mississippi River from St. Louis to Com- v. 1, 219 p., il. merce: Missouri Geol. Survey, Ann. Rept. 1-2, pt. 2, p. 139-208, maps, illus. SPENCER, A. C., 1917, Geology and ore deposits MANUSCRIPT RECEIVED JUNE 26, 1961 FAUNA OF THE ELY GROUP, NEVADA 909

Genus BELLEROPHON Montfort, 1808 Columnals BELLEROPHON sp. Crinoid columnals occur commonly in the Pl. 128, fig. 23 lower part of the Ely and are present Class CEPHALOPODA throughout the entire sequence. A few orthoceracones were collected with REGISTER OF LOCALITIES silicified fossils from USC locality 313. One 309—SW|, NEi, NWJ, sec. 6, T16N, R59E, specimen is here referred to the genus Illipah quadrangle. Tributary to Cotton- Pseudorthoceras on the basis of a slight wood Creek. Zone of silicified fossils lies about 100 ft. stratigraphically above curvature of the adapical region. Chaetetes-Profusulinella zone at fork in dry tributary to Cottonwood Cieek. Genus PSEUDORTHOCERAS Girty, 1911 310—NWi, sec. 6, T16N, R59E. Chaetetes-Pro- PSEUDORTHOCERAS sp. fusulinella zone strikes north perpendicular PL. 128, fig. 18 to the canyon and crops out just below the fork of the creek below locality 309. Phylum ANNELIDA 311—Center of sec. 6, T17N, R59E, Illipah quad- Class CHAETOPODA rangle. A silty bed crops out at the summit Genus SPIRORBIS Lamarck of the ridge about 312. 312—Center, Ei sec. 12, T17N, R58E, Illipah SPIRORBIS sp. quadrangle. A massive limestone with Pl. 128, fig. 21 nodular chert and few fossils crops out above a broad covered slope. The outcrop Phylum ARTHROPODA may be reached by climbing the hill east Class TRILOBITA of the intersection of Hamilton road and Order OPISTHOPARIDA U. S. Highway 50. The broad slope lies Genus DITOMOPYGE Newell, 1931 just above the top of the Ely Limestone. 313—Center, Si sec. 10, T16N, R58E, Illipah DITOMOPYGE? sp. quadrangle. Fossils occur abundantly on Pl. 128, figs. 25,26 the talus slope on the southeast wall of Four pygidia and a portion of a free Harris Canyon. cheek represent the trilobites collected from 314—Center, S|, sec. 10, T16N, R59E, Illipah quadrangle. Fossils occur at the rim of the the Ely Limestone. A specimen of average west side of Harris Canyon, about fifty size has 15 axial segments and 11 pleural paces north of locality 313. segments. The pygidial segments are spinose 315—Summit of Mokomoke ridge northwest of and the axial lobe strongly elevated. The Hamilton and north of the Harris Canyon pleural lobes are bounded by a distinct, nar- road. Sec. 8, T16N, R58E, Illipah quad- rangle. row flange. These specimens bear some re- 316—White Pine County, Nevada. Limestone semblance to Paladin as well as to Dito- with wood grain texture exposed in a road mopyge. cut on the east side of Hamilton road 900 feet above prominent ridge of Diamond Locality.—313. Peak Quartzite. sec. 32, T17N, R58E, Illipah quadrangle. Phylum ECHINODERMATA 317—SE|, sec. 27 (projected), T17N, R61E, Subphylum PELMATOZOA Reipetown quadrangle. From a bluff of Class CRINOIDEA limestone along the crest of the Egan The dorsal cup of a primitive inadunate Range, 200 yards north of the rounded peak. crinoid was collected from the lower part of 318—On a spur south of Dutch John Mountain the Ely. In this specimen there are three near the top of the hill and at the foot of anal plates, and the radianal is actually in the most prominent bluff. The spur can be the basal circlet. This Ely specimen re- reached by going 2.0 miles west on Stew- art's Ranch road from the junction of sembles Priasocrinus and Plaxocrinus; how- U. S. Highway 93 and the Atlantic Mining ever, in those two genera, the anals are well District road, then bearing west at the out of the basal circlet. This condition curve of the road to Kixmiller Summit for 0.8 miles. Northwest corner sec. 34, T6N, would seem to indicate an earlier evolu- R56E, Lincoln County, Nevada. tionary stage and probably represents an 319—Limestones and shales reached by going undescribed genus. Inasmuch as the speci- 0.2 mile north of Skunk Spring, then west men is without arms and is the only one in up to the creek bed 0.3 mile to a dry falls. Fossils occur in the topmost bed of the falls. the collection, it is not described. Photo 38U-34, Confusion Range, Millard Locality.—315. County, Utah. 910 BERNARD 0. LANE

320—Near Preston, White Pine County, Nevada, ern Oklahoma, Part II Brachiopoda: Jour. in NEf, sec. 14, T14N, R61E, as shown on Paleontology, v. 31, no. 3, p. 487-527. Ely Grazing District map. About one mile GIRTY, G. H., 1903, The Carboniferous forma- south of the intersection of the Ely-Preston tions and faunas of Colorado: U. S. Geol. road and U. S. Highway 6. Survey Prof. Paper 16, 546 p., illus. 321—Sec. 10, T13N, R61E, north of Preston, , 1920, Carboniferous and Triassic faunas: White Pine County, Nevada. U. S. Geol. Survey Prof. Paper 111, p. 641-647. 322—NWf, sec. 17, T6N, R63E, Lincoln Co., , 1927, Descriptions of new species of Car- Nev. Flat lying beds west of east side of boniferous and Triassic fossils: U. S. Geol. range between Trough Canyon and Horse Survey Prof. Paper 152, p. 411-446, 7 pis. Spring, southeast of Sunnyside, Nevada. , 1935, An unrecorded structure in certain 323—North end of Fox Mountains in limestone semireticulate Producti: Jour. 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