Fossil Mammals at Astor Pass near Pyramid Lake, Nevada

©2011 Clarence D. Basso

John C. Merriam (1869-1945), one of the premier paleontologists of the early twentieth century, carried out most of his field work on the West Coast between 1900 and 1919. He became chairman of the-then newly created paleontology department at the University of California, Berkeley in 1912.

The present document is his 1915 report of the discovery of incomplete fossil specimens of extinct cats, camels and horses about four miles northwest of Pyramid Lake, Nevada. It enjoys renewed relevance to a much later report by Amy Dansie, et al: “The Wizards Beach Recession: Farmdalian (25,500 YBP) Vertebrate Fossils . . . .” [in] Anthropological Papers Number 21 (Carson City: Nevada State Museum, 1988), 153-174.

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