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SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION 

 U. S. NATIONAL MUSEUM 



Vol. 102 Washington: 1952 No. 32% 



PRELIMINARY ANALYSIS OF THE VERTEBRATE FOSSIL 

 FAUNA OF THE BOYSEN RESERVOIR AREA 



By Theodore E, White 



As A part of the salvage program of the River Basin Surveys, a 

 cooperative project between the Smithsonian Institution, the National 

 Park Service, the Bureau of Reclamation, and the Corps of Engineers, 

 Department of the Army, in the prospective reservoir sites in the Mis- 

 souri Valley, the Boysen Reservoir area near Shoshoni, Wyo., has been 

 prospected for vertebrate fossils for parts of two seasons. During the 

 first period, from October 23 to November 7, 1947, 1 worked alone, and 

 considerable time was lost because of early snows. The area was again 

 worked, with the aid of John C. Donohoe, a student at Montana State 

 College, and Ernest L. Lundelius, a student at the University of Texas, 

 from June 4 to July 12, 1948. Although the specimens have not been 

 credited to individuals, I wish to state that these men have proved 

 themselves competent collectors, and we three found about equal 

 amounts of material. Although it is planned to visit this area for as 

 many seasons as possible before the reservoir is flooded, it seems de- 

 sirable to make the information gathered to date available to other 

 paleontologists. 



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