TITLES AND ABSTRACTS OF PAPERS 155 



ANTELOPES IN THE FAUNA OF RANGRO LA BREA 

 BY ASA C. CHANDLER 



(Abstract) 



One of the most interesting animals found at Rancho la Brea is a diminutive 

 antelope closely related to the living Antilocapra and described by W. P. Taylor 

 in 1911 as Capromeryx minor. In general structure it is remarkably similar 

 to its modern relative, differing only in minor details of the teeth and pro- 

 portions of the bones. Its points of difference are reminiscent of Hmyoceros 

 and Merycodus, and, though probably not in the direct line of descent, bridges 

 the gap between the old and the modern. This animal is especially remarkable 

 for its tiny size, the adult being little over half the size of our pronghorn, and 

 some of the immature specimens being no larger than good-sized jack rabbits. 

 It is not at all certain whether the male of the species possessed horns, but the 

 evidence at hand shows that the female, at least, was hornless. To find such 

 a delicate, defenseless miniature of an antelope living in the midst of the 

 many monstrous, grotesque, and terrible animals of the North American 

 Pleistocene is but another of the wonders revealed by the asphaltum of Rancho 

 lii Brea. 



Remains of the pronghorn, Antilocapra, seem also to be in the fauna of 

 Rancho la Brea. 



VERTEBRATE FAUNA OF THE TRIA8SIC LIMESTONES AT COW CREEK, 

 SHASTA COUNTY, CALIFORNIA 



BY H. C. BRYANT 



{Abstract) 



Large exposures of Hosselkus limestone of Upper Triassic age in Shasta 

 County have yielded a number of saurian forms (Thallatasauria, Ichthysauria) 

 known to be characteristic of this age, and, in addition, some teeth of a 

 cestraciont fish (Strophodus sp.), hitherto unknown in America. The abundant 

 and well preserved specimens of these beds furnish important evidence as to 

 the faunal characteristics of the Upper Triassic in California. 



SOME PHYSICAL FEATURES OF HAWVER CAVE 



BY J. C. HAWVER 



HAWVER CAVE: ITS PLEISTOCENE FAUNA 



BY CHESTER STOCK 



(Abstract) 



Hawver Cave occurs in a limestone lens (Calaveras formation) 5 miles east 

 of Auburn, California. The exploration and assembling of its fauna was first 

 accomplished by Dr. J. C. Hawver, of Auburn. Faunally it is more closely 

 related to the Potter Creek Cave than to the Samwel Cave. It represents a 

 later part of the middle phase of the Pleistocene. 



