ill three or four feet in length
and six inches or so across may carry fragments of five or six
individuals representing several genera. For example, in one such rill
were found _Didymictis_, n. sp. b; _Goniacodon levisanus_; _Tricentes
cf. T. subtrigonus_; and _Protoselene opisthacus_. No specimens were
found in place in unweathered rock, but the quarry possibilities of the
bone pocket have still to be tested.
The stratigraphic position of the bone concentration in relation to
the total Nacimiento section exposed in Kutz Canyon has not been
determined. It is approximately 160 feet below the western rim at a
point nearest the "pocket". The upper 100 feet of strata consists of
sandstone believed by Granger (1917:822) to represent either: (1)
equivalent of the "Wasatch" (San Jose) of the Ojo Alamo section, or
(2) "Torrejon" (upper Nacimiento). Granger perhaps favored the first
interpretation, but the writer, at present, thinks the second
probable.
THE MAMMALIAN FAUNULE
The following mammalian species have been identified as present in the
Angels Peak "pocket".
Order Multituberculata
Family Ptilodontidae
_Mimetodon?_ cf. _M. trovessartianus_
Order Insectivora
Family Palaeoryctidae
_Palaeoryctes_ cf. _P. puercensis_
Family Leptictidae
_Prodiacodon?_ sp.
Family Pantolestidae
_Pentacodon_ n. sp.
Family Mixodectidae
_Indrodon malaris_
Order Primates
Family Anaptomorphidae
anaptomorphid? new gen. and sp.
(70 feet stratigraphically below level of Angels Peak pocket).
? Primates, gen. and sp. indet.
Order Taeniodonta
Family Stylinodontidae
_Psittacotherium?_ sp.
Order Carnivora
Family Arctocyonidae
_Tricentes_ cf. _T. subtrigonus_
_Chriacus truncatus_
_Chriacus_ nr. _C. baldwini_
_Deltatherium fundaminus?_
_Claenodon_ n. sp.
_Triisodon?_ sp.
_Goniacodon levisanus_
Family Miacidae
_Didymictis_ n. sp. a
_Didymictis_ n. sp. b
Order Condylarthra
Family Hyopsodontidae
_Mioclaenus turgidus_
_Ellipsodon_ cf. _E. inaequidens_
_Ellipsodon acolytus_
_Protoselene opisthacus_
Family Phenacodontidae
_Tetraclaenodon_ nr. _T. puercensis_
Family Periptychidae
_Coriphagus encinensis_
_Anisonchus sectorius_
_Periptychus_ nr. _P. carinidens_
ANGELS PEAK CENSUS
The total number of specimens for each member (species or genus) of
the faunule is tabulated in the list on the
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