[ { "id": "https://authors.library.caltech.edu/records/9wz3b-h0251", "eprint_id": 113148, "eprint_status": "archive", "datestamp": "2023-08-19 01:31:27", "lastmod": "2024-01-15 21:25:04", "type": "book_section", "metadata_visibility": "show", "creators": { "items": [ { "id": "Stock-C", "name": { "family": "Stock", "given": "Chester" } } ] }, "title": "Mammalian Fauna from the Titus Canyon Formation, California", "ispublished": "unpub", "full_text_status": "public", "note": "\u00a9 1949 Carnegie Institution of Washington. \n\nI am indebted to Dr. Robert W. Wilson for the study and identification of the rodent material.\n\n
Published - Stock_1949p229.pdf
", "abstract": "In 1935 Stock and Bode called attention to the occurrence near Death Valley, California, of lower Oligocene mammal-bearing deposits designated by them the Titus Canyon formation. Subsequently, Stock (1936) described titanothere remains from this formation. Study of the remainder of the fauna was delayed because of the war. This investigation has now been completed. As a result the age of the Titus Canyon formation is defined within narrower limits of the lower Tertiary than has been done previously.", "date": "1949-06-22", "date_type": "published", "publisher": "Carnegie Institution of Washington", "id_number": "CaltechAUTHORS:20220128-164628809", "official_url": "https://resolver.caltech.edu/CaltechAUTHORS:20220128-164628809", "rights": "No commercial reproduction, distribution, display or performance rights in this work are provided.", "other_numbering_system": { "items": [ { "id": "417", "name": "Balch Graduate School of the Geological Sciences" } ] }, "primary_object": { "basename": "Stock_1949p229.pdf", "url": "https://authors.library.caltech.edu/records/9wz3b-h0251/files/Stock_1949p229.pdf" }, "resource_type": "book_section", "pub_year": "1949", "author_list": "Stock, Chester" }, { "id": "https://authors.library.caltech.edu/records/48pv3-gmw82", "eprint_id": 109865, "eprint_status": "archive", "datestamp": "2023-08-19 00:50:33", "lastmod": "2023-10-23 18:11:56", "type": "book_section", "metadata_visibility": "show", "creators": { "items": [ { "id": "Stock-C", "name": { "family": "Stock", "given": "Chester" } } ] }, "title": "Prehistoric Archeology", "ispublished": "unpub", "full_text_status": "restricted", "note": "\u00a9 1941 Geological Society of America.", "abstract": "In the 50 years which have elapsed since 1888 an increasingly active interest features the search for Man's antecedents. The borderline field of prehistoric archeology encompasses both paleontology and archeology and, as the approach is made by the paleontologist, concerns itself more\nparticularly with the sequence of faunas of the Quaternary and determination of first appearance of a human record in this sequence. Investigations conducted over this period of time seem to have emphasized the divergence in history of the New and Old World with regard to Man's time and place of development, and to have established more clearly and on a surer factual basis Man's position in the Quaternary sequence of America. The state of this knowledge in our own region is one, however, in which active interest is now thoroughly aroused with the result that accumulation of new facts is still in progress, and clarification of debatable issues a matter of the future. \n\nPractically all major discoveries made with reference to Man's geological history have occurred during the past 50 years. Of the several fossil representatives of Man found in the Old World, only the Neanderthal and Cro-Magnon types were recorded prior to 1888. And in the instance of these species, their morphological characters as well as their distribution and associations have become much better known and more clearly defined with later discoveries made during the past 5 or 6 decades.", "date": "1941-06", "date_type": "published", "publisher": "Geological Society of America", "id_number": "CaltechAUTHORS:20210716-154509981", "official_url": "https://resolver.caltech.edu/CaltechAUTHORS:20210716-154509981", "rights": "No commercial reproduction, distribution, display or performance rights in this work are provided.", "collection": "CaltechAUTHORS", "other_numbering_system": { "items": [ { "id": "294", "name": "Balch Graduate School of the Geological Sciences" } ] }, "resource_type": "book_section", "pub_year": "1941", "author_list": "Stock, Chester" }, { "id": "https://authors.library.caltech.edu/records/td6h4-xfj19", "eprint_id": 102641, "eprint_status": "archive", "datestamp": "2023-08-19 00:37:08", "lastmod": "2024-01-15 03:01:14", "type": "book_section", "metadata_visibility": "show", "creators": { "items": [ { "id": "Stock-C", "name": { "family": "Stock", "given": "Chester" } } ] }, "title": "John Campbell Merriam as Scientist and Philosopher", "ispublished": "unpub", "full_text_status": "public", "note": "\u00a9 1938 Carnegie Institution of Washington.\n\nPublished - Stock_1938p765.pdf
", "abstract": "The development of a man's philosophy when seen in the light of his past labor and experience frequently irradiates the process of thought itself and defines more clearly the contribution that is made in a search for the ultimate values of life. When one examines the writings of John Campbell Merriam the conclusion is inevitable that the richness and aesthetic qualities of his later contributions are the products of research and teaching in which human values have ever maintained an important place. To those who believe that a devotion to science and to its rigorous demands in the realm of thought presages a satisfactory approach to philosophy, it is stimulating and enlightening to trace the intellectual development of a great contributor to science.", "date": "1938", "date_type": "published", "publisher": "Carnegie Institution of Washington", "id_number": "CaltechAUTHORS:20200417-150902387", "official_url": "https://resolver.caltech.edu/CaltechAUTHORS:20200417-150902387", "rights": "No commercial reproduction, distribution, display or performance rights in this work are provided.", "other_numbering_system": { "items": [ { "id": "262", "name": "Balch Graduate School of the Geological Sciences" } ] }, "primary_object": { "basename": "Stock_1938p765.pdf", "url": "https://authors.library.caltech.edu/records/td6h4-xfj19/files/Stock_1938p765.pdf" }, "resource_type": "book_section", "pub_year": "1938", "author_list": "Stock, Chester" }, { "id": "https://authors.library.caltech.edu/records/83n0z-hg485", "eprint_id": 100174, "eprint_status": "archive", "datestamp": "2023-08-19 00:30:51", "lastmod": "2024-01-14 22:03:43", "type": "book_section", "metadata_visibility": "show", "creators": { "items": [ { "id": "Stock-C", "name": { "family": "Stock", "given": "Chester" } } ] }, "title": "A Pliomastodon skull from the Thousand Creek beds, northwestern Nevada", "ispublished": "unpub", "full_text_status": "public", "note": "\u00a9 1936 Carnegie institution of Washington.\n\nPublished - Stock_1936p35.pdf
", "abstract": "Mastodon remains are not uncommon in the Thousand Creek Pliocene beds of northwestern Nevada but the materials found thus\nfar represent fragmentary and isolated specimens. Merriam recorded the available specimens in 1911, including an incomplete skull which, unfortunately, was also poorly preserved. Because of lack of better material, determination of the mastodons has been unsatisfactory. Further collecting in these deposits in recent years by a field party of the California Institute of Technology yielded an incomplete skull. This specimen, found by Charles L. Gazin, furnishes an adequate basis for determining the relationships of the mastodon type occurring in the Thousand Creek fauna.", "date": "1936-07-10", "date_type": "published", "publisher": "Carnegie institution of Washington", "id_number": "CaltechAUTHORS:20191204-081225047", "official_url": "https://resolver.caltech.edu/CaltechAUTHORS:20191204-081225047", "rights": "No commercial reproduction, distribution, display or performance rights in this work are provided.", "other_numbering_system": { "items": [ { "id": "197", "name": "Balch Graduate School of the Geological Sciences" } ] }, "primary_object": { "basename": "Stock_1936p35.pdf", "url": "https://authors.library.caltech.edu/records/83n0z-hg485/files/Stock_1936p35.pdf" }, "resource_type": "book_section", "pub_year": "1936", "author_list": "Stock, Chester" }, { "id": "https://authors.library.caltech.edu/records/e861s-3m185", "eprint_id": 100028, "eprint_status": "archive", "datestamp": "2023-08-19 00:26:03", "lastmod": "2024-01-14 22:02:35", "type": "book_section", "metadata_visibility": "show", "creators": { "items": [ { "id": "Stock-C", "name": { "family": "Stock", "given": "Chester" } } ] }, "title": "Artiodactyla from the Sespe of the Las Posas Hills, California", "ispublished": "unpub", "full_text_status": "public", "note": "\u00a9 1935 Carnegie institution of Washington.\n\nPublished - Stock_1935p119.pdf
", "abstract": "The artiodactyla found at the Kew Quarry site in the Sespe deposits\nof the Las Posas Hills, Ventura County, California, comprise at present three forms, namely a camelid, the genus Hypertragulus, and possibly a bothriodont. This assemblage is again noteworthy in furnishing information of value in establishing the relationships o the Kew Quarry fauna to the John Day and White River faunal stages. At least one of these recorded forms from the Upper Oligocene extends considerably the known geographic distribution in North America of the particular group to which it belongs.", "date": "1935-07-20", "date_type": "published", "publisher": "Carnegie institution of Washington", "id_number": "CaltechAUTHORS:20191125-110428136", "official_url": "https://resolver.caltech.edu/CaltechAUTHORS:20191125-110428136", "rights": "No commercial reproduction, distribution, display or performance rights in this work are provided.", "collection": "CaltechAUTHORS", "other_numbering_system": { "items": [ { "id": "157", "name": "Balch Graduate School of the Geological Sciences" } ] }, "contributors": { "items": [ { "id": "Furlong-E-L", "name": { "family": "Furlong", "given": "E. L." } } ] }, "primary_object": { "basename": "Stock_1935p119.pdf", "url": "https://authors.library.caltech.edu/records/e861s-3m185/files/Stock_1935p119.pdf" }, "resource_type": "book_section", "pub_year": "1935", "author_list": "Stock, Chester" }, { "id": "https://authors.library.caltech.edu/records/yn6ac-b5n98", "eprint_id": 100890, "eprint_status": "archive", "datestamp": "2023-08-19 00:17:33", "lastmod": "2024-01-14 22:05:33", "type": "book_section", "metadata_visibility": "show", "creators": { "items": [ { "id": "Stock-C", "name": { "family": "Stock", "given": "Chester" } } ] }, "title": "Carnivora from the Sespe of the Las Posas Hills, California", "ispublished": "unpub", "full_text_status": "public", "note": "\u00a9 1933 Carnegie Institution of Washington.\n\nPublished - Stock_1933p29.pdf
", "abstract": "The generic assemblage of carnivores known at present from the Kew Quarry of the Las Posas Hills, Ventura County, California, is perhaps most noteworthy because of its resemblance to that recorded from the John Day. Three members of the Canidae and two of the Felidae have been listed on the basis of skull remains. More detailed investigation of the structural characters of these types reveals a close specific similarity to comparable forms from the John Day. Indeed, one of the principal reasons for regarding the fauna from the Kew Quarry as closely related in time to that from the John Day beds of eastern Oregon is furnished by this kinship among the Carnivora. \n\nAlthough all of the carnivores are new to the Tertiary mammalian faunas of the Californian region, the skull material of Hoplophoneus possesses added interest, representing as it does the smallest sabre-tooth cat from North America. Surprising, to say the least, is this striking evidence that within the Tertiary faunal province of southern California occurred an early member of that great group of cats, of which one of the latest and most advanced stages of development is recorded so fully in the Pleistocene Smilodon of the asphalt deposits of Rancho La Brea.", "date": "1933-11", "date_type": "published", "publisher": "Carnegie Institution of Washington", "id_number": "CaltechAUTHORS:20200124-090610899", "official_url": "https://resolver.caltech.edu/CaltechAUTHORS:20200124-090610899", "rights": "No commercial reproduction, distribution, display or performance rights in this work are provided.", "collection": "CaltechAUTHORS", "other_numbering_system": { "items": [ { "id": "109", "name": "Balch Graduate School of the Geological Sciences" } ] }, "primary_object": { "basename": "Stock_1933p29.pdf", "url": "https://authors.library.caltech.edu/records/yn6ac-b5n98/files/Stock_1933p29.pdf" }, "resource_type": "book_section", "pub_year": "1933", "author_list": "Stock, Chester" }, { "id": "https://authors.library.caltech.edu/records/4ytsr-ntp58", "eprint_id": 100884, "eprint_status": "archive", "datestamp": "2023-08-19 00:17:28", "lastmod": "2024-01-14 22:05:32", "type": "book_section", "metadata_visibility": "show", "creators": { "items": [ { "id": "Stock-C", "name": { "family": "Stock", "given": "Chester" } } ] }, "title": "Perissodactyla from the Sespe of the Las Posas Hills, California", "ispublished": "unpub", "full_text_status": "public", "note": "\u00a9 1933 Carnegie Institution of Washington.\n\nPublished - Stock_1933p15.pdf
", "abstract": "The concentration of fossil vertebrate remains at the Kew Quarry site in the Sespe deposits of the Las Posas Hills, California, furnishes one of the most varied early Tertiary mammalian faunas as yet recorded from western North America. Related in age to the John Day and upper White River, this assemblage offers for the first time an adequate basis for comparing the late Oligocene mammalian history of the Pacific Coast marine province with that determined in the Tertiary continental provinces to the east of the Cascade Range and of the Rocky Mountains. \n\nIn order to reach a fuller understanding of the stage of evolution of the Kew Quarry fauna the structural features of individual members need now to be considered and the relationships of these forms determined in greater detail than was attempted in the original statement. \n\nBrief descriptions and comparisons will be given, therefore, in this and in subsequent papers. \n\nAmong the more commonly occurring mammals in the Kew Quarry fauna are the rhinoceroses of the genus Subhyracodon (Caenopus). This type is represented by many parts of skeletons in the collections of the California Institute of Technology. In contrast, the horses are known at present by a single individual. The material, though scanty, is clearly referable to the genus Miohippus. While furnishing an opportunity to compare the stage of development of the Equidae in the Sespe with that found in the John Day beds of eastern Oregon and in the White River of the western Great Plains, added interest attaches to this specimen as the first documentary evidence of the occurrence of the genus in the Pacific Coast region of North America.", "date": "1933-11", "date_type": "published", "publisher": "Carnegie Institution of Washington", "id_number": "CaltechAUTHORS:20200124-082417569", "official_url": "https://resolver.caltech.edu/CaltechAUTHORS:20200124-082417569", "rights": "No commercial reproduction, distribution, display or performance rights in this work are provided.", "collection": "CaltechAUTHORS", "other_numbering_system": { "items": [ { "id": "108", "name": "Balch Graduate School of the Geological Sciences" } ] }, "primary_object": { "basename": "Stock_1933p15.pdf", "url": "https://authors.library.caltech.edu/records/4ytsr-ntp58/files/Stock_1933p15.pdf" }, "resource_type": "book_section", "pub_year": "1933", "author_list": "Stock, Chester" }, { "id": "https://authors.library.caltech.edu/records/k6wdr-nza94", "eprint_id": 100862, "eprint_status": "archive", "datestamp": "2023-08-19 00:17:22", "lastmod": "2024-01-14 22:05:28", "type": "book_section", "metadata_visibility": "show", "creators": { "items": [ { "id": "Merriam-J-C", "name": { "family": "Merriam", "given": "John C." } }, { "id": "Stock-C", "name": { "family": "Stock", "given": "Chester" } } ] }, "title": "Tertiary Mammals from the Auriferous Gravels near Columbia, California", "ispublished": "unpub", "full_text_status": "public", "note": "\u00a9 1933 Carnegie Institution of Washington.\n\nPublished - Stock_1933p3.pdf
", "abstract": "Since their earliest exploitation for gold, the auriferous gravels of the Sierra Nevada have yielded on occasion remains of fossil mammals whose age clearly indicates the presence of deposits belonging to several divisions of the Cenozoic. Extensive hydraulic and placer mining in this region is largely responsible for the fact that many localities where fossil materials have been found in the past are now no longer accessible. \n\nIn the course of mining operations by the Springfield Development Company, two horse teeth and a fragmentary camel jaw were found in gravels and sands of the Springfield shafts Nos. 2 and 3, located one and one-half miles southwest of Columbia, California. The mammalian remains were obtained by R. W. Chaney from J. S. Cademartori, Superintendent of the Springfield Development Company. \n\nSince the stratigraphic occurrence of the material, as determined by Professor George D. Louderback, is definitely established with reference to the Tertiary section exposed in this region, interest attaches to the age and correlation of the deposits as suggested by the relationships of the fossil mammals. Moreover, the presence of fossil plants in the sedimentary series offers, among other features, an opportunity to check the age relationships of the accumulations by the application of paleobotanical evidence.", "date": "1933-11", "date_type": "published", "publisher": "Carnegie Institution of Washington", "id_number": "CaltechAUTHORS:20200123-071924627", "official_url": "https://resolver.caltech.edu/CaltechAUTHORS:20200123-071924627", "rights": "No commercial reproduction, distribution, display or performance rights in this work are provided.", "collection": "CaltechAUTHORS", "other_numbering_system": { "items": [ { "id": "107", "name": "Balch Graduate School of the Geological Sciences" } ] }, "primary_object": { "basename": "Stock_1933p3.pdf", "url": "https://authors.library.caltech.edu/records/k6wdr-nza94/files/Stock_1933p3.pdf" }, "resource_type": "book_section", "pub_year": "1933", "author_list": "Merriam, John C. and Stock, Chester" }, { "id": "https://authors.library.caltech.edu/records/dhdcm-6hj38", "eprint_id": 100858, "eprint_status": "archive", "datestamp": "2023-08-19 00:14:15", "lastmod": "2024-01-14 22:05:26", "type": "book_section", "metadata_visibility": "show", "creators": { "items": [ { "id": "Stock-C", "name": { "family": "Stock", "given": "Chester" } } ] }, "title": "Asphalt Deposits and Quaternary Life of Rancho La Brea", "ispublished": "unpub", "full_text_status": "public", "note": "\u00a9 1933 United States Government Printing Office. \n\nSouthern California; Guidebook 15: Excursion C-1.\n\nPublished - Stock_1933p21.pdf
", "abstract": "The name Rancho La Brea was applied originally to a Mexican\nland grant in the vicinity of Los Angeles, but as now generally\nunderstood it refers to an area of approximately 32 acres (13\nhectares) on Wilshire Boulevard a few miles west of the heart of\nthe city. The unique paleontologic features of this locality were\nfirst fully appreciated a quarter of a century or more ago.", "date": "1933", "date_type": "published", "publisher": "United States Geological Survey", "id_number": "CaltechAUTHORS:20200122-155541367", "official_url": "https://resolver.caltech.edu/CaltechAUTHORS:20200122-155541367", "rights": "No commercial reproduction, distribution, display or performance rights in this work are provided.", "other_numbering_system": { "items": [ { "id": "106", "name": "Balch Graduate School of the Geological Sciences" } ] }, "contributors": { "items": [ { "id": "Gale-H-S", "name": { "family": "Gale", "given": "Hoyt S." } } ] }, "primary_object": { "basename": "Stock_1933p21.pdf", "url": "https://authors.library.caltech.edu/records/dhdcm-6hj38/files/Stock_1933p21.pdf" }, "resource_type": "book_section", "pub_year": "1933", "author_list": "Stock, Chester" }, { "id": "https://authors.library.caltech.edu/records/223j6-8pj14", "eprint_id": 100546, "eprint_status": "archive", "datestamp": "2023-08-19 00:10:28", "lastmod": "2024-01-14 22:04:50", "type": "book_section", "metadata_visibility": "show", "creators": { "items": [ { "id": "Stock-C", "name": { "family": "Stock", "given": "Chester" } } ] }, "title": "Additions to the mammalian fauna from the Tecuya beds, California", "ispublished": "unpub", "full_text_status": "public", "note": "\u00a9 1932 Carnegie Institution of Washington.\n\nPublished - Stock_1932p87.pdf
", "abstract": "In 1920 Stock described the fragmentary remains of three mammalian types (Hypertragulus sp., Caenopus or Diceratherium, and a sciurid) from the Tecuya beds of Tecuya Canyon, California. Although the region was visited on several occasions during the past ten years, no additions were made to the vertebrate fauna until the summer of 1930, when a field party from the California Institute of Technology obtained materials of an oreodont and of a canid type. The Tecuya beds may be the correlative of at least a portion of the Sespe deposits of southern California, which they resemble in certain stratigraphic relationships and lithologic characteristics. Since the description of the very incomplete fauna from this locality, mammalian remains have been collected in the upper Sespe of South Mountain, Ventura County. In view of the importance of establishing more clearly the faunal relations of these horizons, any additions to the assemblages are especially welcome. Record is therefore made of the newly obtained specimens from the Tecuya.", "date": "1932", "date_type": "published", "publisher": "Carnegie Institution of Washington", "id_number": "CaltechAUTHORS:20200107-153354271", "official_url": "https://resolver.caltech.edu/CaltechAUTHORS:20200107-153354271", "rights": "No commercial reproduction, distribution, display or performance rights in this work are provided.", "other_numbering_system": { "items": [ { "id": "68", "name": "Balch Graduate School of the Geological Sciences" } ] }, "primary_object": { "basename": "Stock_1932p87.pdf", "url": "https://authors.library.caltech.edu/records/223j6-8pj14/files/Stock_1932p87.pdf" }, "resource_type": "book_section", "pub_year": "1932", "author_list": "Stock, Chester" }, { "id": "https://authors.library.caltech.edu/records/cn0zs-ng380", "eprint_id": 100258, "eprint_status": "archive", "datestamp": "2023-08-19 00:06:55", "lastmod": "2024-01-14 22:04:16", "type": "book_section", "metadata_visibility": "show", "creators": { "items": [ { "id": "Stock-C", "name": { "family": "Stock", "given": "Chester" } } ] }, "title": "Carnivora new to the Mascall Miocene fauna of eastern Oregon", "ispublished": "unpub", "full_text_status": "public", "note": "\u00a9 1930 Carnegie Institution of Washington.\n\nPublished - Stock_1930p43.pdf
", "abstract": "With the exception of the three species, Tephrocyon rurestris\n(Condon), Canis sp. and Cope's type Lutrictis? lycopotamicus no\nother carnivores have been recorded from the Mascall Miocene of\nthe John Day Valley, Oregon, as a result of further collections\nobtained from these deposits since the earlier explorations in this\narea. During the past summer a field party from the California\nInstitute of Technology was fortunate in securing the remains of\ntwo carnivores new to the Mascall assemblage. While the material\nis incomplete, records of these types are of interest and may be of\nsignificance in establishing a more accurate correlation of the Mascall fauna with Tertiary assemblages known from regions lying beyond the John Day Basin.", "date": "1930-08", "date_type": "published", "publisher": "Carnegie Institution of Washington", "id_number": "CaltechAUTHORS:20191210-094352095", "official_url": "https://resolver.caltech.edu/CaltechAUTHORS:20191210-094352095", "rights": "No commercial reproduction, distribution, display or performance rights in this work are provided.", "other_numbering_system": { "items": [ { "id": "45", "name": "Balch Graduate School of the Geological Sciences" } ] }, "primary_object": { "basename": "Stock_1930p43.pdf", "url": "https://authors.library.caltech.edu/records/cn0zs-ng380/files/Stock_1930p43.pdf" }, "resource_type": "book_section", "pub_year": "1930", "author_list": "Stock, Chester" }, { "id": "https://authors.library.caltech.edu/records/2hwj4-3k111", "eprint_id": 100255, "eprint_status": "archive", "datestamp": "2023-08-19 00:06:50", "lastmod": "2024-01-14 22:04:15", "type": "book_section", "metadata_visibility": "show", "creators": { "items": [ { "id": "Stock-C", "name": { "family": "Stock", "given": "Chester" } } ] }, "title": "Oreodonts from the Sespe deposits of South Mountain, Ventura County, California", "ispublished": "unpub", "full_text_status": "public", "note": "\u00a9 1930 Carnegie Institution of Washington.\n\nPublished - Stock_1930p27.pdf
", "abstract": "The Sespe deposits, a thick series of beds regarded as of non-marine origin, occupy a stratigraphic position in the Tertiary sequence of the Pacific Coast region between the Tejon marine Eocene and the Vaqueros marine Miocene. As mapped by W. S. W. Kew the Sespe beds are seen to possess an extensive distribution in southern California, occurring not only at the type locality on Sespe Creek, but are exposed also over broad areas along the borders of the Santa Clara Valley in Ventura County and in adjacent regions. Since their earliest study and description, these deposits have exhibited among other peculiarities an apparent absence of fossil remains. Because of the lack of palaeontological materials, determination of the age of the Sespe has depended upon its stratigraphic position and upon the recognition of the faunal stages of the marine invertebrate assemblages known from deposits which immediately underlie and overlie this accumulation. Since the Tejon is generally regarded as of Upper Eocene age and the Vaqueros as belonging to the Lower Miocene, various ages ranging from Eocene to Lower Miocene have been ascribed to the Sespe. The view has also been entertained that the period of accumulation of the Sespe accounts for much of geologic time that has elapsed since the Upper Eocene and prior to the Temblor stage of the Miocene. \n\nIn recent years attention has been directed to the Sespe beds as exposed on the south side of the lower Santa Clara Valley near Santa Paula, California, as a result of the discovery of mammalian remains in these deposits by Dr. Nicolas L. Taliaferro. Following this discovery, further search in the area has brought to light additional\nmaterial. The occurrence of mammalian remains is of considerable\ninterest and importance since it affords an opportunity to present\nnoteworthy data on the age of the Sespe and on the correlation of this accumulation with early Tertiary continental deposits of the Great Basin and Great Plains provinces. \n\nFurthermore, the materials available represent two distinct genera\nof oreodonts related to Promerycochrerus and Leptauchenia. This\noccurrence therefore records for the first time the presence of a type allied to the former genus west of the John Day region in north-central Oregon and of a member of the Leptaucheniar-Cyclopidius group west of the Great Plains.", "date": "1930-08", "date_type": "published", "publisher": "Carnegie Institution of Washington", "id_number": "CaltechAUTHORS:20191209-160647176", "official_url": "https://resolver.caltech.edu/CaltechAUTHORS:20191209-160647176", "rights": "No commercial reproduction, distribution, display or performance rights in this work are provided.", "other_numbering_system": { "items": [ { "id": "44", "name": "Balch Graduate School of the Geological Sciences" } ] }, "primary_object": { "basename": "Stock_1930p27.pdf", "url": "https://authors.library.caltech.edu/records/2hwj4-3k111/files/Stock_1930p27.pdf" }, "resource_type": "book_section", "pub_year": "1930", "author_list": "Stock, Chester" }, { "id": "https://authors.library.caltech.edu/records/g8sq7-wbe37", "eprint_id": 99288, "eprint_status": "archive", "datestamp": "2023-08-19 00:00:32", "lastmod": "2024-01-14 21:59:52", "type": "book_section", "metadata_visibility": "show", "creators": { "items": [ { "id": "Merriam-J-C", "name": { "family": "Merriam", "given": "John C." } }, { "id": "Stock-C", "name": { "family": "Stock", "given": "Chester" } } ] }, "title": "A Further Contribution to the Mammalian Fauna of the Thousand Creek Pliocene, Northwestern Nevada", "ispublished": "unpub", "full_text_status": "public", "note": "\u00a9 1928 Carnegie institution of Washington.\n\nPublished - Stock_1928p5.pdf
", "abstract": "Since publication of the description and discussion of the Thousand Creek fauna in 1911, further collecting in the Thousand Creek beds of northwestern Nevada by parties from the University of California has furnished additional paleontological materials on which the recognition of forms new to the fauna has been based and on which previously described species have become better known.", "date": "1928", "date_type": "published", "publisher": "Carnegie institution of Washington", "id_number": "CaltechAUTHORS:20191016-080554360", "official_url": "https://resolver.caltech.edu/CaltechAUTHORS:20191016-080554360", "rights": "No commercial reproduction, distribution, display or performance rights in this work are provided.", "other_numbering_system": { "items": [ { "id": "18", "name": "Balch Graduate School of the Geological Sciences" } ] }, "primary_object": { "basename": "Stock_1928p5.pdf", "url": "https://authors.library.caltech.edu/records/g8sq7-wbe37/files/Stock_1928p5.pdf" }, "resource_type": "book_section", "pub_year": "1928", "author_list": "Merriam, John C. and Stock, Chester" }, { "id": "https://authors.library.caltech.edu/records/s9xga-tqp83", "eprint_id": 99294, "eprint_status": "archive", "datestamp": "2023-08-19 00:00:36", "lastmod": "2024-01-14 21:59:54", "type": "book_section", "metadata_visibility": "show", "creators": { "items": [ { "id": "Stock-C", "name": { "family": "Stock", "given": "Chester" } } ] }, "title": "A Peccary from the McKittrick Pleistocene, California", "ispublished": "unpub", "full_text_status": "public", "note": "\u00a9 1928 Carnegie institution of Washington.\n\nPublished - Stock_1928p23.pdf
", "abstract": "The recent discovery of peccary material in the McKittrick asphalt deposits, during the excavations conducted for the California Institute of Technology by Charles H. Sternberg, adds another member to the list of mammals known from this locality. In view of the rather uncommon representation of peccaries in the Pleistocene of California a record of occurrence of these types at McKittrick seems particularly desirable.", "date": "1928", "date_type": "published", "publisher": "Carnegie institution of Washington", "id_number": "CaltechAUTHORS:20191016-094512956", "official_url": "https://resolver.caltech.edu/CaltechAUTHORS:20191016-094512956", "rights": "No commercial reproduction, distribution, display or performance rights in this work are provided.", "other_numbering_system": { "items": [ { "id": "19", "name": "Balch Graduate School of the Geological Sciences" } ] }, "primary_object": { "basename": "Stock_1928p23.pdf", "url": "https://authors.library.caltech.edu/records/s9xga-tqp83/files/Stock_1928p23.pdf" }, "resource_type": "book_section", "pub_year": "1928", "author_list": "Stock, Chester" }, { "id": "https://authors.library.caltech.edu/records/dbz3d-ycc44", "eprint_id": 99318, "eprint_status": "archive", "datestamp": "2023-08-19 00:00:51", "lastmod": "2024-01-14 22:00:01", "type": "book_section", "metadata_visibility": "show", "creators": { "items": [ { "id": "Stock-C", "name": { "family": "Stock", "given": "Chester" } } ] }, "title": "A Tooth of Hipparion mohavense from the Puente Formation, California", "ispublished": "unpub", "full_text_status": "public", "note": "\u00a9 1928 Carnegie institution of Washington.\n\nPublished - Stock_1928p49.pdf
", "abstract": "Remains of land mammals occurring in Tertiary formations of the Pacific Coast marine province of western North America furnish\nimportant data relating to the correlation of the faunal horizons of\nthis region with those of the continental deposits of the Great Basin\narea to the east. The discovery in marine deposits, presumably the\nPuente formation of southern California, of a horse tooth identified\nas belonging to the species Hipparion mohavense Merriam, suggests at once an interesting time relationship between the Puente and the Ricardo deposits of the Mohave desert, the type locality of this species.", "date": "1928", "date_type": "published", "publisher": "Carnegie institution of Washington", "id_number": "CaltechAUTHORS:20191017-075231339", "official_url": "https://resolver.caltech.edu/CaltechAUTHORS:20191017-075231339", "rights": "No commercial reproduction, distribution, display or performance rights in this work are provided.", "other_numbering_system": { "items": [ { "id": "22", "name": "Balch Graduate School of the Geological Sciences" } ] }, "primary_object": { "basename": "Stock_1928p49.pdf", "url": "https://authors.library.caltech.edu/records/dbz3d-ycc44/files/Stock_1928p49.pdf" }, "resource_type": "book_section", "pub_year": "1928", "author_list": "Stock, Chester" }, { "id": "https://authors.library.caltech.edu/records/x4trd-gse28", "eprint_id": 99311, "eprint_status": "archive", "datestamp": "2023-08-19 00:00:46", "lastmod": "2024-01-14 22:00:00", "type": "book_section", "metadata_visibility": "show", "creators": { "items": [ { "id": "Stock-C", "name": { "family": "Stock", "given": "Chester" } } ] }, "title": "Canid and Proboscidean Remains from the Ricardo Deposits, Mohave Desert, California", "ispublished": "unpub", "full_text_status": "public", "note": "\u00a9 1928 Carnegie institution of Washington.\n\nPublished - Stock_1928p39.pdf
", "abstract": "Among the canid remains obtained by University of California\ncollecting parties in the upper portion of the Ricardo beds of the\nMohave Desert were several specimens provisionally referred by\nMerriam to the genus Aelurodon. A maxillary fragment with posterior cheek-teeth, No. 21507 U. C. Coll., furnished the type of the species Aelurodon? aphobus Merriam. A second specimen, a mandibular ramus, No. 22470 U. C. Coll., with well-worn teeth was regarded by Merriam as possibly belonging to Ae.? aphobus, this relationship being suggested by the size and proportion of the teeth in the latter form.", "date": "1928", "date_type": "published", "publisher": "Carnegie institution of Washington", "id_number": "CaltechAUTHORS:20191016-160719934", "official_url": "https://resolver.caltech.edu/CaltechAUTHORS:20191016-160719934", "rights": "No commercial reproduction, distribution, display or performance rights in this work are provided.", "other_numbering_system": { "items": [ { "id": "21", "name": "Balch Graduate School of the Geological Sciences" } ] }, "primary_object": { "basename": "Stock_1928p39.pdf", "url": "https://authors.library.caltech.edu/records/x4trd-gse28/files/Stock_1928p39.pdf" }, "resource_type": "book_section", "pub_year": "1928", "author_list": "Stock, Chester" }, { "id": "https://authors.library.caltech.edu/records/z1nf9-5x292", "eprint_id": 99310, "eprint_status": "archive", "datestamp": "2023-08-19 00:00:41", "lastmod": "2024-01-14 21:59:58", "type": "book_section", "metadata_visibility": "show", "creators": { "items": [ { "id": "Stock-C", "name": { "family": "Stock", "given": "Chester" } } ] }, "title": "Tanupolama, a New Genus of Llama from the Pleistocene of California", "ispublished": "unpub", "full_text_status": "public", "note": "\u00a9 1928 Carnegie institution of Washington.\n\nPublished - Stock_1928p29.pdf
", "abstract": "The presence of a slender-limbed camel in the mammalian fauna of\nthe McKittrick Pleistocene has been noted by Merriam and Stock.\nIn a later paper this form was recognized as certainly distinct from\nthe genus Camelops and described as Lama stevensi. Further study\nof materials collected at McKittrick for the California Institute of\nTechnology by Charles H. Sternberg has convinced the writer that\nwhile the form is undoubtedly closely related to the living llamas of\nSouth America, certain noteworthy characters serve to distinguish\nthe Pleistocene type from the genus Lama. In view of studies now in\nprogress on the relationships of Pleistocene mammalian faunas of\nCalifornia it seems desirable to publish a statement of the generic\ncharacters of the McKittrick llama, reserving a fuller description of\nthe California Pleistocene Camelidae for a forthcoming paper.\nThe illustrations shown on plates 1 to 6 have been prepared by\nMr. John L. Ridgway.", "date": "1928", "date_type": "published", "publisher": "Carnegie institution of Washington", "id_number": "CaltechAUTHORS:20191016-154915144", "official_url": "https://resolver.caltech.edu/CaltechAUTHORS:20191016-154915144", "rights": "No commercial reproduction, distribution, display or performance rights in this work are provided.", "other_numbering_system": { "items": [ { "id": "20", "name": "Balch Graduate School of the Geological Sciences" } ] }, "primary_object": { "basename": "Stock_1928p29.pdf", "url": "https://authors.library.caltech.edu/records/z1nf9-5x292/files/Stock_1928p29.pdf" }, "resource_type": "book_section", "pub_year": "1928", "author_list": "Stock, Chester" }, { "id": "https://authors.library.caltech.edu/records/4mqbv-0q738", "eprint_id": 99224, "eprint_status": "archive", "datestamp": "2023-08-18 23:58:12", "lastmod": "2024-01-14 21:59:37", "type": "book_section", "metadata_visibility": "show", "creators": { "items": [ { "id": "Merriam-J-C", "name": { "family": "Merriam", "given": "John C." } }, { "id": "Stock-C", "name": { "family": "Stock", "given": "Chester" } } ] }, "title": "A Hyaenarctid Bear from the Later Tertiary of the John Day Basin of Oregon", "ispublished": "unpub", "full_text_status": "public", "note": "\u00a9 1927 Carnegie institution of Washington.\n\nPublished - Stock_1927p39.pdf
", "abstract": "In the course of field investigations on the Mascall and Rattlesnake\ndeposits and faunas of the John Day Basin of eastern Oregon, conducted\nby Chester Stock and C. L. Moody during 1916, fragmentary\nmaterial of a hyaenarctid type was discovered at University of California\ncollecting locality 3042. The specimen was described in 1925\nby John C. Merriam, Chester Stock and C. L. Moody.\nLocality 3042 was visited again during the summer of 1926. Charles\nW. Merriam, a member of the party in search of mammalian remains\nat this locality, discovered several hyaenarctid teeth and fragments.\nStudy of this new material has shown that it represents the individual\nfound in 1916. The additional remains furnish valuable information\nrelating to the Tertiary bears of North America.", "date": "1927", "date_type": "published", "publisher": "Carnegie institution of Washington", "id_number": "CaltechAUTHORS:20191010-154033052", "official_url": "https://resolver.caltech.edu/CaltechAUTHORS:20191010-154033052", "rights": "No commercial reproduction, distribution, display or performance rights in this work are provided.", "other_numbering_system": { "items": [ { "id": "11", "name": "Balch Graduate School of the Geological Sciences" } ] }, "contributors": { "items": [ { "id": "Kellogg-R", "name": { "family": "Kellogg", "given": "Remington" } } ] }, "primary_object": { "basename": "Stock_1927p39.pdf", "url": "https://authors.library.caltech.edu/records/4mqbv-0q738/files/Stock_1927p39.pdf" }, "resource_type": "book_section", "pub_year": "1927", "author_list": "Merriam, John C. and Stock, Chester" }, { "id": "https://authors.library.caltech.edu/records/dxwfk-g0j08", "eprint_id": 99146, "eprint_status": "archive", "datestamp": "2023-08-18 23:54:35", "lastmod": "2024-01-14 21:59:06", "type": "book_section", "metadata_visibility": "show", "creators": { "items": [ { "id": "Merriam-J-C", "name": { "family": "Merriam", "given": "John C." } }, { "id": "Stock-C", "name": { "family": "Stock", "given": "Chester" } } ] }, "title": "A Llama from the Pleistocene of McKittrick, California", "ispublished": "unpub", "full_text_status": "public", "note": "\u00a9 1925 Carnegie institution of Washington.\n\nPublished - Merriam_1925p37.pdf
", "abstract": "In a provisional list of mammals from an asphalt deposit occurring near McKittrick/Kern County, California, a slender-limbed camel was recognized as certainly distinct from the large Camelops hesternus known from Rancho La Brea. Since the preliminary account of the\nMcKittrick asphalt deposit and fauna, further excavating at this locality has resulted in the collection of additional material of the small camel as well as of specimens of a type resembling closely the species Camelops hesternus. The slender-limbed camel is undoubtedly closely related to the living llama of South America, and, since this records, for the first time, the presence of the genus Lama in the Pleistocene of California, if not in that of North America, a preliminary statement regarding the form seems desirable, in advance of a complete survey of the McKittrick mammalian assemblage now in progress. The authors appreciate the courtesy of officials of the Midway Royal Petroleum Company for extension of excavation privileges.", "date": "1925", "date_type": "published", "publisher": "Carnegie institution of Washington", "id_number": "CaltechAUTHORS:20191008-102411742", "official_url": "https://resolver.caltech.edu/CaltechAUTHORS:20191008-102411742", "rights": "No commercial reproduction, distribution, display or performance rights in this work are provided.", "other_numbering_system": { "items": [ { "id": "2", "name": "Balch Graduate School of the Geological Sciences" } ] }, "primary_object": { "basename": "Merriam_1925p37.pdf", "url": "https://authors.library.caltech.edu/records/dxwfk-g0j08/files/Merriam_1925p37.pdf" }, "resource_type": "book_section", "pub_year": "1925", "author_list": "Merriam, John C. and Stock, Chester" }, { "id": "https://authors.library.caltech.edu/records/jshnp-nwj66", "eprint_id": 99157, "eprint_status": "archive", "datestamp": "2023-08-18 23:54:40", "lastmod": "2024-01-14 21:59:09", "type": "book_section", "metadata_visibility": "show", "creators": { "items": [ { "id": "Merriam-J-C", "name": { "family": "Merriam", "given": "John C." } }, { "id": "Stock-C", "name": { "family": "Stock", "given": "Chester" } } ] }, "title": "Relationships and Structure of the Short-Faced Bear, Arctotherium, from the Pleistocene of California", "ispublished": "unpub", "full_text_status": "public", "note": "\u00a9 1925 Carnegie institution of Washington.\n\nPublished - Merriam_1925p1.pdf
", "abstract": "The peculiar short-faced Californian bear, known as Arctotherium simum, was described by Cope in 1879 from a single specimen, consisting of a skull minus the lower jaw, found by J. A. Richardson in 1878 in Potter Creek Cave on the McCloud River in northern California. Since the description of A. simum, a nearly perfect skull with lower jaw and a large quantity of additional material, representing nearly all parts of the skeleton and dentition of this species, has been obtained from the deposits of Potter Creek Cave as a result of further work carried on for the University of California by E. L. Furlong and by W. J. Sinclair in 1902 and 1903.", "date": "1925", "date_type": "published", "publisher": "Carnegie institution of Washington", "id_number": "CaltechAUTHORS:20191008-132308406", "official_url": "https://resolver.caltech.edu/CaltechAUTHORS:20191008-132308406", "rights": "No commercial reproduction, distribution, display or performance rights in this work are provided.", "other_numbering_system": { "items": [ { "id": "1", "name": "Balch Graduate School of the Geological Sciences" } ] }, "primary_object": { "basename": "Merriam_1925p1.pdf", "url": "https://authors.library.caltech.edu/records/jshnp-nwj66/files/Merriam_1925p1.pdf" }, "resource_type": "book_section", "pub_year": "1925", "author_list": "Merriam, John C. and Stock, Chester" }, { "id": "https://authors.library.caltech.edu/records/a2rpw-0ec13", "eprint_id": 99163, "eprint_status": "archive", "datestamp": "2023-08-18 23:54:46", "lastmod": "2024-01-14 21:59:13", "type": "book_section", "metadata_visibility": "show", "creators": { "items": [ { "id": "Merriam-J-C", "name": { "family": "Merriam", "given": "John C." } }, { "id": "Stock-C", "name": { "family": "Stock", "given": "Chester" } }, { "id": "Moody-C-L", "name": { "family": "Moody", "given": "C. L." } } ] }, "title": "The Pliocene Rattlesnake Formation and Fauna of Eastern Oregon, with Notes on the Geology of the Rattlesnake and Mascall Deposits", "ispublished": "unpub", "full_text_status": "public", "note": "\u00a9 1925 Carnegie institution of Washington.\n\nPublished - Merriam_1925p43.pdf
", "abstract": "During the summer of 1916 a field party from the Department of Palaeontology, University of California, visited the type localities of Rattlesnake and Mascall formations on the John Day River in eastern Oregon. Five weeks were devoted to an examination of these\nlater Tertiary deposits, primarily for the purpose of securing larger vertebrate collections from the two horizons. The lack of topographic\nmaps and the necessity of spending much of the time in fossil collecting curtailed the geological observations that were made. The facts concerning the geology of the Rattlesnake and Mascall formations should be regarded, therefore, as constituting only a reconnaissance report. While the Mascall deposits yielded also mammalian remains, it seems desirable to reserve the consideration of the Mascall fauna for a later paper.", "date": "1925", "date_type": "published", "publisher": "Carnegie institution of Washington", "id_number": "CaltechAUTHORS:20191008-143558070", "official_url": "https://resolver.caltech.edu/CaltechAUTHORS:20191008-143558070", "rights": "No commercial reproduction, distribution, display or performance rights in this work are provided.", "other_numbering_system": { "items": [ { "id": "3", "name": "Balch Graduate School of the Geological Sciences" } ] }, "primary_object": { "basename": "Merriam_1925p43.pdf", "url": "https://authors.library.caltech.edu/records/a2rpw-0ec13/files/Merriam_1925p43.pdf" }, "resource_type": "book_section", "pub_year": "1925", "author_list": "Merriam, John C.; Stock, Chester; et el." } ]