[ { "id": "authors:tcnyp-x4g68", "collection": "authors", "collection_id": "tcnyp-x4g68", "cite_using_url": "https://resolver.caltech.edu/CaltechAUTHORS:20200220-072920683", "type": "article", "title": "The Occurrence of Flints and Extinct Animals in Pluvial Deposits near Clovis, New Mexico. Part III: Geology and Vertebrate Paleontology of the Late Quaternary near Clovis, New Mexico", "author": [ { "family_name": "Stock", "given_name": "Chester", "clpid": "Stock-C" }, { "family_name": "Bode", "given_name": "Francis D.", "clpid": "Bode-F-D" } ], "abstract": "At the suggestion of Dr. John C. Merriam and with the support of the Carnegie Institution of Washington, a field party from the California Institute of Technology co6perated with Dr. Edgar B. Howard in the investigation of late Quaternary sediments containing artifacts and remains of extinct mammals near Clovis, New Mexico. Field work was conducted in this region during the summer of 1933. The primary purposes of the present study were to locate accurately the occurrences of remains of mammals with reference to the position of artifacts and other evidences of the presence of early Man in the deposits, to identify the kinds of mammals represented, to determine the nature of the deposits themselves, and to establish, if possible, the conditions under which sediments and organic record accumulated. During the progress of this work in the field, critical localities were examined, and the problem of early Man in this region was discussed by members of the XVI International Geological Congress including Sir Arthur Smith Woodward and Lady Woodward, Dr. Victor Van Straelen, and Dr. John C. Merriam. It is a pleasure to acknowledge the expressions of opinion rendered by members of this group during and after examination of the field evidence.", "issn": "0097-3157", "publisher": "Academy of Natural Sciences", "publication": "Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia", "publication_date": "1936-06-15", "volume": "88", "pages": "219-241" }, { "id": "authors:q962t-w4524", "collection": "authors", "collection_id": "q962t-w4524", "cite_using_url": "https://resolver.caltech.edu/CaltechAUTHORS:STOpnas35d", "type": "article", "title": "Occurrence of lower Oligocene mammal-bearing beds near Death Valley, California", "author": [ { "family_name": "Stock", "given_name": "Chester", "clpid": "Stock-C" }, { "family_name": "Bode", "given_name": "Francis D.", "clpid": "Bode-F-D" } ], "abstract": "It is a curious fact that while the White River deposits with their wealth of vertebrate fossils are widely distributed in the western Great Plains and occur also in certain of the intermontane basins of the Cordilleran province, no horizon, recognized on the basis of land mammals as equivalent in time to the lower Oligocene or Titanotherium Zone, has been found beyond these areas on the North American continent.(1) All the more unusual does this fact seem when it is realized that since the definition of the White River Group by Hayden in 1862 and the early researches on the White River fossil vertebrates by Leidy, Cope and Marsh, field investigations in the Tertiary have progressed broadly and intensively over the Far West.", "doi": "10.1073/pnas.21.10.571", "issn": "0027-8424", "publisher": "National Academy of Sciences", "publication": "Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America", "publication_date": "1935-10", "series_number": "10", "volume": "21", "issue": "10", "pages": "571-579" }, { "id": "authors:55sfj-frr82", "collection": "authors", "collection_id": "55sfj-frr82", "cite_using_url": "https://resolver.caltech.edu/CaltechAUTHORS:20191125-135329052", "type": "book_section", "title": "The fauna of the Merychippus zone, north Coalinga District, California", "author": [ { "family_name": "Bode", "given_name": "Francis D.", "clpid": "Bode-F-D" } ], "abstract": "The fauna from the Merychippus zone, north of Coalinga, California,\nwas first described by J. C. Merriam in 1915. The assemblage\nas listed by Merriam included four genera of land mammals, namely,\nMerychippus, Proethennops, Procamelus and Telrabelodon. As recognized by Dr. Merriam, the discovery of mammalian remains in the marginal marine series of California possesses particular significance in that it furnishes an important aid in determining the time relationships between the marginal marine deposits of the Pacific Coast and the continental formations of the Great Basin and Great Plains areas of North America. The present studies were initiated, therefore, with a view to enlarging the fauna from this horizon and to establishing more accurately the time relationships of the assemblage. Moreover, it seemed desirable to record information concerning the mode of accumulation of the fossiliferous deposits and of the ecologic conditions under which the fauna existed.", "publisher": "Carnegie institution of Washington", "publication_date": "1935-07-20" }, { "id": "authors:6k4km-t7s38", "collection": "authors", "collection_id": "6k4km-t7s38", "cite_using_url": "https://resolver.caltech.edu/CaltechAUTHORS:20200203-132225898", "type": "book_section", "title": "Tooth characters of protohippine horses with special reference to species from the Merychippus zone, California", "author": [ { "family_name": "Bode", "given_name": "Francis D.", "clpid": "Bode-F-D" } ], "contributor": [ { "family_name": "Furlong", "given_name": "E. L.", "clpid": "Furlong-E-L" } ], "abstract": "The critical review of equine tooth characters attempted in this paper is the result of a study of the protohippine horses obtained from the Merychippus Zone of the north Coalinga district, California. During the conduct of extensive excavations in this zone since 1928 by the California Institute, more than two thousand teeth of the genus Merychippus have been collected. In addition to the types represented by the equine material, a number of associated land mammals have been secured. The faunal list, which includes some fifteen species, suggests that this locality occupies a stratigraphic position approximately late middle Miocene in age. \n\nThe variation displayed in the dental characters of the merychippine material from the Merychippus Zone necessitated comparisons with cheek-teeth of Equidae from practically all of the Miocene formations furnishing vertebrate remains in the Pacific Coast and Great Basin Provinces. A comprehensive study of these collections clearly demonstrates that many of the cheek-tooth characters employed in the description of type specimens of fossil horses are variable to an extent which renders them unreliable in a determination of species. The variation of these characters within a large collection also indicates that it is possible for teeth referable to a particular species to have a wider stratigraphic range than has been hitherto appreciated. The conclusion is reached that the presence of a species has less value in reaching an age determination of the strata in which it occurs than evidence furnished by an association of several species.", "publisher": "Carnegie institution of Washington", "publication_date": "1934-12-20" }, { "id": "authors:nc5en-dr470", "collection": "authors", "collection_id": "nc5en-dr470", "cite_using_url": "https://resolver.caltech.edu/CaltechAUTHORS:20200124-102008643", "type": "book_section", "title": "Anchitheriine Horses from the Merychippus Zone of the North Coalinga District, California", "author": [ { "family_name": "Bode", "given_name": "Francis D.", "clpid": "Bode-F-D" } ], "abstract": "Excavations by the California Institute of Technology in the Merychippus zone of the North Coalinga district, California, have added considerably to our knowledge of the Equidae from this horizon. \n\nIn addition to a large amount of material representing the genus Merychippus, the teeth of three genera of anchitheriine horses have been found. These teeth are of value in that they furnish additional information regarding the taxonomic position and geographic distribution of several of the middle Tertiary genera known from the\nPacific Coast and Great Basin provinces.", "publisher": "Carnegie Institution of Washington", "publication_date": "1933-11" }, { "id": "authors:hxftc-x9935", "collection": "authors", "collection_id": "hxftc-x9935", "cite_using_url": "https://resolver.caltech.edu/CaltechAUTHORS:20191108-093248978", "type": "article", "title": "Characters Useful in Determining the Position of Individual Teeth in the Permanent Cheek-Tooth Series of Merychippine Horses", "author": [ { "family_name": "Bode", "given_name": "Francis D.", "clpid": "Bode-F-D" } ], "abstract": "Cheek-teeth of fossil horses display structural characters long been recognized as of considerable value in establishing relationships of these forms and in furnishing suggestions as of the deposits in which the fossils occur. In later Cenozoic of western North America where complete skulls and skeletal are not always available, identification of members of the often based on single teeth.", "doi": "10.2307/1373910", "issn": "0022-2372", "publisher": "Oxford University Press", "publication": "Journal of Mammalogy", "publication_date": "1931-05-14", "series_number": "2", "volume": "12", "issue": "2", "pages": "118-129" } ]