University of California Publications. Bulletin of the Department of Geological Sciences, Volume 10

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University of California Press, 1918 - Geology

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Page 158 - Merriam. 7. A Collection of Mammalian Remains from Tertiary Beds on the Mohave Desert, by John C. Merriam. Nos. 6 and 7 in one cover lOc 8.
Page 141 - ... Formation of the Tejon Hills, California, by John C. Merriam. 9. Mammalian Remains from a Late Tertiary Formation at Ironside, Oregon, by John C. Merriam. Nos. 8 and 9 in one cover 25c 10. Recent Studies on the Skull and Dentition of Nothrotherium from Rancho La Brea, by Chester Stock - -... 30c 11.
Page 233 - With Observations on the Osteology, Natural Affinities, and probable Habits of the Megatherioid Quadrupeds in general. By RICHARD OWEN, FRS, &c.
Page 116 - The Stratigraphic and Faunal Relations of the Martinez Formation to the Chico and Tejon North of Mount Diablo, by Roy E.
Page 117 - Moody -. 25c 8. Mammalian Remains from the Chanac Formation of the Tejon Hills, California, by John C. Merriam. 9. Mammalian Remains from a Late Tertiary Formation at Ironside, Oregon, by John C. Merriam. Nos. 8 and 9 in one cover 25c 10.
Page 431 - Buwalda 25c 25. The Problem of Aquatic Adaptation in the Carnivora, as Illustrated in the Osteology and Evolution of the Sea-Otter, by Walter P. Taylor _ 30c VOLUME 8. 1. Is the Boulder "Batholith
Page 240 - Kquus beds" of American geologists, which by some are put in the uppermost Pliocene, and by others in the lowest Quaternary. It is probably a transition between the two. The whole surface of the shale exposed in the prison yard is literally covered with tracks of many kinds, but the mud was so soft when the tracks were made that the nature of many of them can only be guessed. Some were probably those of a horse ; some probably of a wolf ; some certainly of a deer ; 1 " Variations of Animals and Plants...
Page 60 - Volume 4, 1905-1906, 478 pp., with 51 plates, price „ $3.50 Volume 5, 1906-1910, 458 pp., with 42 plates, price $3.50 A list of titles in volumes 1 to 5 will be sent upon request. VOLUME 6. 1. The Condor-like Vultures of Rancho La Brea, by Loye Holmes Miller 15
Page 137 - The bulla of N. texanum appears not to have had a floor. The pterygoids seem to form a wall which surrounds the cavity on both sides. On the median side the edge of the wall is partly intact, partly injured. On the outer side the wall comes down to a sharp thin edge which appears to be little if at all injured. In places the edge is certainly wholly natural. Such being the case 40 Hay, OP, ibid., p. 121, 1916. the bulla is incomplete and is a cavity opening below by a mouth 30mm. wide."" Of other...
Page 174 - Pack9 have discussed briefly the Etchegoin and Jacalitos. The occurrence of the invertebrate faunas in horizons with the vertebrate faunas in the type Etchegoin section north of Coalinga has been described in a short paper by the writer.10 In this publication Arnold and Anderson's formational names Etchegoin and Jacalitos and their faunal zones in the Etchegoin were retained. In a later paper by the writer,11 embracing a study of the hitherto little known fauna of the Jacalitos formation at the type...

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