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Volume
46, Number 1,
February 2000:
The Permian Insect Fossils
of Elmo, Kansas
ISSUE
HOME PAGE
ABOUT
THIS ISSUE
- about KSN
- about the author
IN THIS
ISSUE
- introduction
- the elmo site
as part of the Kansas-Oklahoma permian
- a short history
of the discovery and study of the elmo fossils
- the insects: part
1, part 2,
part 3,
- references
- back cover
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September 18, 2003
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The
Permian Insect Fossils of Elmo, Kansas
by Roy
J. Beckemeyer
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Figure
1. The teasure site. The Elmo, Kansas Permian Insect
site as it appears today. After the last visit by
Frank Carpenter of Harvard in the 1930's, the end
of the dig had been marked with a steel rod and the
gully refilled. The fill has now been removed and
the quarry extedned. The pick rests on the insect
layer and the showvel blade points to a dark area
which is blackish shale containing fossilized stumps
and branches from an ancient swamp that underlies
the insect layer of limestone. The site is currently
being worked under lease by the team of Jason and
Matthew Dinges and Jerry Green of Hays, Kansas. The
photo was taken by Roy Beckemeyer on a visit to the
stie with Jason in September of 1999.
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