Papers concerning the palæontology of California, Arizona, and Idaho.
Title:
Papers concerning the palæontology of California, Arizona, and Idaho.
Author:
Merriam, John C. (John Campbell), 1869-1945.
Uniform Title:
Carnegie Institution of Washington publication
Publication Information:
[Washington] : Carnegie Institution of Washington, 1934.
Physical Description:
2 pages l., 135 pages, 1 unnumbered page : illustrations (including maps) plates. ; 26 cm.
General Note:
Descriptive letterpress on versos facing some of the plates.
Each paper also published separately in 1933.
Language:
English
Contents:
Tertiary mammals from the auriferous gravels near Columbia, California, by J.C. Merriam and Chester Stock.--Notes on the geologic section near Columbia, California, with special reference to the occurence of fossils in the auriferous gravels, by G.D. Louderback.--Perissodactyla from the Sespe of the Las Posas hills, California, by Chester Stock.--Carnivora from the Sespe of the Las Posas hills, California, by Chester Stock.--Anchitheriine horses from the Merychippus zone of the North Coalinga district, California, by F.D. Bode.--Pleistocene mammalian fauna from the Carpinteria asphalt, by R.W. Wilson.--The Coconino sandstone, its history and origin, by E.D. McKee. (Bibliography: p. 115)--A rodent fauna from later Cenozoic beds of southwestern Idaho, by R.W. Wilson.
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