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GEOLOGY OF THE. TERTIARY FORMATIONS OF 



KUMINANTIA. 



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river, would fill the air with their stench. In the spring of 1858 several thousand 

 bodies of buffalo passed down the Kansas Eiver, below the mouth of Solomon's Pork _ 

 and were carried into the Missouri. In the summer of 1856 an Indian came into 

 Fort Union, bringing with him a large number of buffalo tongues, boasting that he 

 had killed a band of these animals. His story wns doubted, and it was afterwards 

 discovered that about sixty of these animals had been mired in and perished in the 

 mud of the Big Muddy, a stream which flows into the Missouri above Fort Union. 

 Many other examples might be given, showing how easily the remains of animals 

 roaming and feeding along the borders of the myriad streams flowing into some great 

 lake could be transported in part or entire into the lake, and, sinking to the bottom, 

 would be enveloped in the muddy sediments. 



The following Catalogue of the animal remains thus far discovered in the basin is 

 given to show the vertical range of the species 



Carnivora. 

 Canis saevus, .... 



C. temerarius, .... 

 C. vafer, ..... 



C. (Epicyon) Haydeni, . 

 AmjDhicyon vetus, .... 

 A. gracilis, .... 

 Hyajnodon horridus, 



H. cruentus, . . . . * 



H. crucians, .... 



Pseudaulurus intrepidus, 

 Drepanodon priraaevus, 



D. occidentalis, . . . ' . 

 Dinictis felina, .... 

 ^lurodon ferox, 

 Leptarctus primus, .... 



Orcodon Culbertsoni, 

 0. gracilis, 

 0. major, 

 0. aflinis, var., . 

 O. hybridus, var., 

 0. bullatus, var., 

 Mcrycochoerus proprius, 

 Merychyus elegans, 

 M. medius, . 

 M. major, 



Leptauchenia major, 

 L. decora, 

 L. nitida, 



Agriochoerus antiquus, 

 A. niiijor, 

 A. latifi-ons, 

 Pa'brothc'iiuin Wilsoni, 

 Procanielus nthiistus. 



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