UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA PUBLICATIONS 



BULLETIN OF THE DEPARTMENT OF 



GEOLOGY 



Vol. 5, No. 2, pp. 65-66 ANDREW C. LAWSON, Editor 



SOME EDENTATE -LIKE REMAINS FROM 

 THE MASCALL BEDS OF OREGON. 



BY 



William J. Sinclair. 



The writer has recently received from Professor J. C. Mer- 

 riam for determination and description a large ungual phalanx 

 collected in the Mascall beds of Oregon, by Mr. J. C. Sperry, while 

 a member of the University of California expedition of 1900. 

 The specimen (No. 1096, Univ. Cal. Palae. Col.), represented nat- 

 ural size in the accompanying figures (figs. 1 to 3), is from the 



Figs. 1 to 3. Claw of an Edentate (?) from the Maseall beds: fig. l„from 

 the side; fig. 2, from above ; fig. 3, from below. All figures three- 

 fourths natural size. 



Mascall beds exposed on the north side of the main road between 

 Rattlesnake Creek and Birch Creek, Wheeler County, Oregon. 



Although somewhat fragmentary, this material is of peculiar 

 interest, as it apparently pertains to a gravigrade edentate. The 



