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Chaeacteeistic Exposuee of the Manix Pleistocene Lake-beds on the Noeth 



Bank of the Mohave River neae Field Station in the Manix Basin. 



(Photograph by J. P. Buwalda.) 



mammal group in the whole history of our fauna. It included creatures 

 resembling on the one hand the pigs and on the other hand the camels 

 and deer. There are also rare remains of a large antelope or deer of 

 the genus Dromome7'yx. A small deer-antelope, Menjcodus, a dainty 

 creature with teeth like an antelope and horns like a deer, is represented 

 at several localities by abundant fragments of teeth, limb-bones and 



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Bad-land Steuctuke in the Manix Basin. (I'hotograph by J. P. Buwalda.) 



