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The famous ' Long Island Quarry ' of Phillips County, Kansas, belongs 

 in the Republican River phase, and is said to be a river channel formation 

 cut through the mass of the flood plain Republican River deposits. It was 



Fig. 161. — Old and New World short-limbed or teleocerine rhinoceroses of the Upper 

 Miocene or Lower Pliocene. Above : Restoration of Teleoceras, represented in a Florida en^a- 

 ronment, from the original by Charles R. Knight. Below : Skeleton of Teleoceras fossiger from 

 the ' Long Island Quarry,' Kansas. Both in the American Museum of Natural History. 



discovered by Charles H. Sternberg as long ago as 1882, and has yielded 

 remains of hundreds of teleocerine rhinoceroses of the species Teleoceras 

 fossiger. It also contains species of JElurodon, of Pliohippus (large), Pli- 

 auchenia vera (a small animal), of Merycodus, all animals characteristic of 



