Research Catalog

Title

Studies on Cenozoic vertebrates of western North America / Robert W. Wilson [and others].

Publication

Washington, D.C. : Carnegie institution of Washington, 1938.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Wilson, Robert W. (Robert Warren), 1909-2006.
• Carnegie Institution of Washington.

Description

281 pages : illustrations, maps; 26 cm

Series Statement

• Contributions to palaeontology
• Carnegie Institution of Washington publication ; no. 487

Uniform Title

• Contributions to paleontology (Carnegie Institution of Washington)
• Carnegie Institution of Washington publication ; 487.

Subject

• From 65 million years ago
• Vertebrates, Fossil > West (U.S.)
• Paleontology > Cenozoic
• Paleontology > West (U.S.)
• Cenozoic Geologic Period
• Paleontology
• Vertebrates, Fossil
• Vertebrados (Biologia)
• Paleozoologia
• West United States

Note

• Descriptive letterpress on versos facing some of the plates.
• Each paper also published separately.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographies.

Contents

New middle Pliocene rodent and lagomorph faunas from Oregon and California / by Robert W. Wilson (issued June 30, 1937) -- Pliocene rodents of western North America / by Robert W. Wilson (issued July 23, 1937) -- A late Cenozoic vertebrate fauna from the Coso Mountains, Inyo County, California / by John R. Schultz (issued Sept. 25, 1937) -- A late Quaternary mammal fauna from the tar seeps of McKittrick, California / by John R. Schultz (issued July 6, 1938) -- The Rancho La Brea caracara : a new species / by Hildegrade Howard (issued July 7, 1938) -- Pliocene peccaries from the Pacific coast region of North America / by Edwin H. Colbert (issued May 25, 1938) --Plants in the dung of Nothrotherium from Rampart and Muav Caves, Arizona / by J.D. Laudermilk and P.A. Munz (issued May 6, 1938).

LCCN

38039602

OCLC

• ocm02757479
• 2757479
• SCSB-308624

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library