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Title: The American Museum journal
Identifier: americanmuseumjo04amer (find matches)
Year: c1900-(1918) (c190s)
Authors: American Museum of Natural History
Subjects: Natural history
Publisher: New York : American Museum of Natural History
Contributing Library: American Museum of Natural History Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Biodiversity Heritage Library

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THE AMERICAN MUSEUM JOURNAL terest, because, contrary to usual practice, the body had been enclosed in a rude box made by placing about it thin slabs of stone, and the cist thus formed had been covered with jagged fragments of rock, over which earth was spread. This doll-like carving of antler is considered to be one of the finest pieces of prehistoric art ever found in Northwestern America. On the whole the expedition may be considered particularly fortunate in getting archaeological data and material which tend to prove the occupation of the Yakima region by a people of a hitherto unknown culture.
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DEPARTMENT OF VERTEBRATE PAL/EONTOLOGY: FIELD EXPLORATIONS IN 1903. HE past summer was a very successful season for the Department of Vertebrate Palaeontology. Five expeditions were in the field, three for fossil mammals, two for fossil reptiles, and all have met with much success. The objects of the expeditions were: 1. Jurassic Dinosaurs. The great Bone Cabin Quarry in Wyoming continues to furnish fine specimens of these gigantic extinct reptiles. For this season the prize specimen, found by Mr. Kaison, is a complete skull and the jaws of a great Amphibi- ous Dinosaur, hitherto one of the especial needs of the collection, 2. Cretaceous Reptiles. Two years ago Mr. Harry Dougherty of Hat Creek, Wyoming, discovered part of a fossil skeleton not far from his ranch. This specimen was purchased for the Mu- seum by Professor Osbom, and through Mr. Dougherty's courtesy our representative was able to look over the neighborhood where it was found. It seemed to promise well for further discoveries, and accordingly Mr. Barnum Brown was sent out last spring to explore it. He found a number of complete skeletons of Mosa- saurs fifteen to twenty feet long, and incomplete skeletons of Plesiosaurs forty feet long. These were great carnivorf)us mar- ine reptiles, the Plesiosaurs with long snaky neck, while the Mosasaurs were more compactly built. 14

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