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Title: The American Museum journal
Identifier: americanmuseumjo06amer (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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VER TEB RA TE PA L^ON TO LOGY IN igoj 13 DEPARTMENT OF VERTEBRATE PALEONTOLOGY, EXPLORA- TIONS OF 1905. HREE parties were sent into the field by the De- partment of Vertebrate Palasontology during the past summer. They carried on explorations and excavations in Montana, in central Wyoming and in southern Wyoming. The party in southern Wyoming imder Mr. Walter Granger went out especially in search of remains of the animals which lived in the Middle Eocene period in the region around the now abandoned military post of Fort Bridger. This classic locality has been explored from time to time since 1870, particularly large collections having been secured by Professor Marsh of the Y9,le Museum, by Professor Cope and by the Princeton Museum. American Museum exploring parties visited the region in 1893 and 1895 and again every season from 1903 to 1905, always seeking for remains of the so-called "mountain horse," or Oro- hippus of Marsh, an important stage in the development of American horses. After these six years of the most pains- taking search, which were rewarded by the discovery of a great variety of other animals but by few or no remains of the horses, on the very last day of the final expedition, just as the search was being given up, the long-looked-for horse was discovered, the find consisting of the skull, limbs, backbone and other parts of the skeleton of the very stage which was needed to fit into the remarkable series which the Museum has been bring- ing together. Other valuable specimens were secured besides the "mountain horse." The most important of these were a nearly complete skeleton of one of the large carnivores of the period, a nearly complete skeleton and the skull of the running rhinoceros of the period, Hyrachyus, an unusually perfect skele- ton of a rodent and a skull which may prove to be that of one of the Bridger monkeys. The staff of the expedition included Messrs. Miller of this Museum and Sinclair of the Museum of Zoology at Princeton. The work of this season completes the very thorough survey of the ancient Bridger basin to which this Museum has now de-

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