BULLETIN OF THE GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF AMERICA VOL. A2. PP. 253-304 MARCH 31. 1932 PROCEEDINGS OF THE PALEONTOLOGICAL SOCIETY PROCEEDINGS OP THE TWENTY-THIRD ANNUAL MEETING OP THE PALEONTOLOGICAL SOCIETY, HELD AT TULSA, OKLAHOMA, DECEMBER 29-31, 19311 B. P. Howell, Secretary CONTENTS Page Session of Tuesday, December 29.................................................................................... 256 Report of the Council................................................................................................. 256 Secretary’s report................................................................................................ 256 Treasurer’s report................................................................................................ 257 Appointment of Auditing Committee..................................................................... 259 Election of Officers and Members........................................................................... 259 Election of Fellows and Correspondents............................................................... 261 Memorials..................................................................................................................... 261 Memorial of Alja R. Crook............................................................................... 261 Memorial of Earl Douglass............................................................................... 261 Memorial of James W. Gidley......................................................................... 261 Memorial of I. A. Keyte.................................................................................... 261 Memorial of A. O. Thomas............................................................................... 261 Report of Service Committee................................................................................... 261 Report of Committee on Catalogue of Devonian Fossils of North America. 262 New business................................................................................................................. 265 Presentation of papers............................................................................................... 266 Titles and abstracts of papers................................................................................ 266 “Neoparatype,” a new term [abstract]; by Helen Jeanne Plummer and B. F. Howell.......................................................'............................................. 266 Discovery of the Cambrian Trilobite genus, Elyx, in America [ab­ stract]; by B. F. Howell................................................................................ 266 Fossil Holothuroidea [abstract]; by C. Croneisand J. M. McCormack. 267 Classification of the Mixochoanitic Cephalopods [abstract]; by A. K. Miller.................................................................................................................. 267 Base of the Ordovician Galena formation [abstract]; by G. M. Kay. 268 Mohawkian Ostracoda: species common to faunules from the Rock­ land and Decorah formations [abstract]; by G. Marshall Kay. .... 268 Presence of organic structures in the centers of oolites of the Neda iron ores of Wisconsin [abstract]; by Helgi Johnson............................. Session of Wednesday, December 30............................................................................... Joint session with the Geological Society.......................................................... 270 Business session............................................................................................................ 270 Manuscript received by the Secretary of the Society February 12, 1932. (253) # Downloaded from http://pubs.geoscienceworld.org/gsa/gsabulletin/article-pdf/43/1/253/3430307/BUL43_1-0253.pdf by guest on 25 September 2021 254 PROCEEDINGS OF THE PALEONTOLOGICAL SOCIETY Page Presentation of papers............................................................................................... 270 Titles and abstracts of papers................................................................................. 270 Chaleur series of Port Daniel, Quebec [abstract]; by Stuart A. Northrop. Polyhedral pisolites in a spring deposit [abstract]; by Stuart A. Nor­ throp................................................................................................................... 271 American Silurian foraminifera [abstract]; by Paul H. Dunn.................. 272 Medina of Pennsylvania [abstract]; by George Halcott Chadwick___ 272 Easternmost outposts of the Ithaca fauna [abstract]; by George Hal­ cott Chadwick......................................................................,.......................... 273 Pocono problem [abstract]; by George Halcott Chadwick...................... 273 Diastrophic epochs in the southern Klamath Mountains, California [abstract]; by Norman E. A. Hinds........................................................... 273 New crinoid fauna from the Mississippian of North Central Iowa [abstract]; by L. R. Laudon......................................................................... 275 Maccrady -series of the Mississippian at Broad Ford and Saltville, Virginia [abstract]; by David B. Reger.................................................... 275 Erosional record during the Pennsylvanian period at Grand Ledge, Michigan [abstract]; by W. Al Kelly........................................................ 276 Joint session with the Geological Society, the American Association of Petroleum Geologists, and the Society of Economic Paleontologists and Mineralogists............................................................................................ 276 Symposium.................................................................................................................... 276 Contributions of petroleum geologists to general geology in California; by L. Courtney Decius.................................................................................. 276 Geology of the northern Midcontinent oil district, by Sidney Powers. 276 Contributions of petroleum geology to pure geology in the southern Midcontinent area; by Fred H. Lahee...................................................... 277 Salt domes of the United States; by Marcus A. Hanna.......................... 277 Contributions from geophysics to geology; by J. C. Karcher and Carl A. Heiland......................................................................................................... 277 Session of Thursday, December 31.................................................................................. 277 Business session............................................................................................................ 277 Report of Auditing Committee....................................................................... 277 New business........................................................................................................ 277 Presentation of papers................................................................................................ 277 Titles and abstracts of papers.............................................................................. 278 Ophileta, Polygyrata, and Lecanospira [abstract]; by E. O. Ulrich and Josiah Bridge........................................................................................... 278 Microfauna of Johns Valley, Pushmataha County, Oklahoma [ab­ stract]; by Bruce H. Harlton....................................................................... 278 Unusual conditions of sedimentation in the Pennsylvanian strata near Bridgeport and Chico, Wise County, Texas [abstract]; by Gayle Scott. 1............................................................................................................... 278 Some minute ammonoids from the Upper Pennsylvanian system [abstract]; by F. B. Plummer..................................................................... 279 Proposed new type section of the Pennsylvanian system [abstract]; by Raymond C. Moore.................................................................................. 279 Correlation of the members of the Big Blue series of the Permian in the northern Mid-Continent region [abstract]; by G. E. Condra.. 280 Downloaded from http://pubs.geoscienceworld.org/gsa/gsabulletin/article-pdf/43/1/253/3430307/BUL43_1-0253.pdf by guest on 25 September 2021 CONTENTS 255 Page Permian limestone reefs in the Van Horn region of Texas [abstract]; by Philip B. King.................................................................................................. 280 New business................................................................................................................. 281 Presentation of papers................................................................................................ 281 Titles and abstracts of papers................................................................................. 281 Miocene fauna and flora from the valley of the Atrato River, Colombia, South America [abstract]; by I. P. Tolmachoff..................................... 281 Pennsylvanian Conodonts [abstract]; by Frank H. Gunnell................... 282 High-level Pleistocene marine clays of Mount Desert Island, Maine, and their fauna [abstract]; by C. W. Brown and C. C. Branson---- 282 New Conodont assemblages and their use in stratigraphy [abstract]; by E. B. Branson and M. G. Mehl............................................................ 283 Shark with grasping