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Title: Preliminary Survey of a Paleocene Faunule from the Angels Peak Area, New Mexico

Author: Robert W. Wilson

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Preliminary Survey of a Paleocene Faunule
from the Angels Peak Area, New Mexico

BY

ROBERT W. WILSON

University of Kansas Publications
Museum of Natural History

Volume 5, No. 1, pp. 1-11, 1 figure in text
February 24, 1951

University of Kansas
LAWRENCE
1951

UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS PUBLICATIONS, MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY

Editors: E. Raymond Hall, Chairman, A. Byron Leonard,
Edward H. Taylor, Robert W. Wilson

Volume 5, No. 1, pp. 1-11, 1 figure in text

February 24, 1951

UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS
Lawrence, Kansas

PRINTED BY
FERD VOILAND, JR., STATE PRINTER
TOPEKA, KANSAS
1951

23-4458

Preliminary Survey of a Paleocene Faunule
from the Angels Peak Area, New Mexico

By

ROBERT W. WILSON

INTRODUCTION

Angels Peak stands on the eastern rim of a large area of badlands
carved by a tributary of the San Juan River from Paleocene strata of
the Nacimiento formation, and presumably also from Wasatchian strata of
the San Jose (Simpson, 1948). This area of badlands lies some twelve
miles south of Bloomfield, New Mexico in the Kutz Canyon drainage.
Angels Peak (Angel Peak of Granger, 1917) and Kutz Canyon (Coots Canon
of Granger, and of Matthew, 1937) are names that have been applied to
the location (figure 1).

[Illustration: FIGURE 1. Map of a part of the San Juan Basin, New
Mexico, showing location of University of Kansas fossil locality west
of Angels Peak.]

E. D. Cope's collector, David Baldwin, possibly worked in this area in
the Eighties. The first published record, however, of mammalian fossils
from the Angels Peak badlands was made by Walter Granger in 1917 as a