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Title: The American Museum journal
Identifier: americanmuseumj08amer (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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COLLECTIONS FROM THE FAYUM ir Although fossils occur in considerable abundance in the ^Jiddle Eocene strata, the energies of the American Museum party were pretty well confined to the Upper Eocene or fluvio-marine beds, which contain a much larger fauna. Here fossils were found usually in loosely com- pacted white or yellow sand, either as isolated specimens or in deposits where bones of thousands of animals had been washed together, hope- lessly mixetl up and often, especially in the case of skulls, badly broken. Two such deposits situated about a c(uarter of a mile apart had been discovered and extensively worked, but by no means exhausted, by the-
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MUSEUM CAMP AT QASR-EL-SAGHA. Middle Eocene bluff in the background. English parties. Through the courtesy of the Survey Department in Cairo, the American INIuseinii party was allowed to continue the work of excavation in the quarries which had been opened by the English, and the greater part of the material obtained was from them, although the finer skulls were, in all instances, found elsewhere. The bones are only partly petrified, being in striking contrast to the hard, flinty, thoroughly petrified wood which is always found in association with them, but the most unfortunate feature of these Upper Eocene fossils is the lack of association of the parts of the skeleton. To find two-

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1908
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  • bookid:americanmuseumj08amer
  • bookyear:c1900-[1918]
  • bookdecade:c190
  • bookcentury:c100
  • bookauthor:American_Museum_of_Natural_History
  • booksubject:Natural_history
  • bookpublisher:New_York_American_Museum_of_Natural_History
  • bookcontributor:American_Museum_of_Natural_History_Library
  • booksponsor:Biodiversity_Heritage_Library
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