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ill three or four feet in length and six inches or so across may carry fragments of five or six individuals representing several genera. For example, in one such rill were found _Didymictis_, n. sp. b; _Goniacodon levisanus_; _Tricentes cf. T. subtrigonus_; and _Protoselene opisthacus_. No specimens were found in place in unweathered rock, but the quarry possibilities of the bone pocket have still to be tested. The stratigraphic position of the bone concentration in relation to the total Nacimiento section exposed in Kutz Canyon has not been determined. It is approximately 160 feet below the western rim at a point nearest the "pocket". The upper 100 feet of strata consists of sandstone believed by Granger (1917:822) to represent either: (1) equivalent of the "Wasatch" (San Jose) of the Ojo Alamo section, or (2) "Torrejon" (upper Nacimiento). Granger perhaps favored the first interpretation, but the writer, at present, thinks the second probable. THE MAMMALIAN FAUNULE The following mammalian species have been identified as present in the Angels Peak "pocket". Order Multituberculata Family Ptilodontidae _Mimetodon?_ cf. _M. trovessartianus_ Order Insectivora Family Palaeoryctidae _Palaeoryctes_ cf. _P. puercensis_ Family Leptictidae _Prodiacodon?_ sp. Family Pantolestidae _Pentacodon_ n. sp. Family Mixodectidae _Indrodon malaris_ Order Primates Family Anaptomorphidae anaptomorphid? new gen. and sp. (70 feet stratigraphically below level of Angels Peak pocket). ? Primates, gen. and sp. indet. Order Taeniodonta Family Stylinodontidae _Psittacotherium?_ sp. Order Carnivora Family Arctocyonidae _Tricentes_ cf. _T. subtrigonus_ _Chriacus truncatus_ _Chriacus_ nr. _C. baldwini_ _Deltatherium fundaminus?_ _Claenodon_ n. sp. _Triisodon?_ sp. _Goniacodon levisanus_ Family Miacidae _Didymictis_ n. sp. a _Didymictis_ n. sp. b Order Condylarthra Family Hyopsodontidae _Mioclaenus turgidus_ _Ellipsodon_ cf. _E. inaequidens_ _Ellipsodon acolytus_ _Protoselene opisthacus_ Family Phenacodontidae _Tetraclaenodon_ nr. _T. puercensis_ Family Periptychidae _Coriphagus encinensis_ _Anisonchus sectorius_ _Periptychus_ nr. _P. carinidens_ ANGELS PEAK CENSUS The total number of specimens for each member (species or genus) of the faunule is tabulated in the list on the
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