Preliminary Survey of a Paleocene Faunule from the Angels Peak Area, New MexicoWilson, Robert W. (Robert Warren)
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Preliminary Survey of a Paleocene Faunule from the Angels Peak Area, New Mexico
Wilson, Robert W. (Robert Warren)
Geology, Stratigraphic -- Paleocene
It is not justified at present to maintain that the Angels Peak species
occupy an earlier position in the Torrejonian than do those obtained
from outcrops between Kimbetoh and the heads of the two forks of Arroyo
Torrejon. Indeed, the stratigraphic position of the Angels Peak pocket
with a considerable thickness of Torrejonian strata beneath it, tends
to argue against such a view. Nevertheless, it is possible, if not
probable, that such is the case, or at least that detailed work would
reveal a series of faunules of slightly different ages in the
Torrejonian stage of the Nacimiento formation. Of course, chance in
collecting, as well as geographic and ecologic differences, play their
part in giving such a local faunule as that at Angels Peak its somewhat
different aspect, but these factors may not account altogether for the
observed differences.
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_University of Kansas, Museum of Natural History, Lawrence, Kansas.
Transmitted July 1, 1950._
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Transcriber's Notes
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(field work in the preceding summer).
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