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Index
Numbers in italics refer to photographs, illustrations, charts, or maps.
A Aepinacodon 54-55, 60 Agate Fossil Beds National Monument 11, 14, 50; animals at, 20-22, 24-34, 84; birding at, 81, 82-83, 85; established, 17, 78; geology of 23, 47-52; museum specimen of, 38, 86-87; topography of, 7; visitor information 77-80 Agate Springs Ranch 7, 10, 17; excavations at, 38, 39; fossils from, 40-41, 86-87 Alligator 54-55, 60 American Museum of Natural History 14, 38, 52, 87 Aplodontia 32
B Badlands National Park, South Dakota 88, 90 Barbour, Erwin H. 11, 14, 38 Big Badlands, South Dakota 49, 52 Bighorn Canyon National Recreation Area, Montana-Wyoming 92 Bittern, American 83 Blackbird, red-winged 82 Bone Cabin, Wyoming 48 Breeding Bird Survey, U.S. Fish and Wildlife 81, 82-83, 85 Buteos (buzzard hawks) 28
C Cambrian period 46 Camels. See Oxydactylus, Stenomylus Camping 78 Carboniferous period 46 Carnegie Hill 12-13, 14, 37, 77 Carnegie Museum 14, 38, 39, 40-41, 69, 87, 88 Carnivores, small 32-34 Cenozoic Era 46, 47, 49, 52 Chalicotheres. See Moropus Cheyenne River 52 Cleveland, Utah 48 Colorado Plateau 49 Como Bluff, Wyoming 48 Cook, Eleanor Barbour 14 Cook, Harold 10, 14, 17, 52 Cook, James H. 6, 8, 10-11, 14, 77; buys Agate Springs Ranch, 7, 10; discovers fossils, 11, 24, 38 Cook, Kate Graham 10-11, 14 Cook, Margaret Crozier 17 Cook Museum of Natural History 17 Cope, Edward Drinker 9, 11, 14 Coyote 84 Cretaceous period 46 Curlew, long-billed 82 Cuvier, Georges 42, 43, 45 Custer Battlefield National Monument. See Little Bighorn Battlefield National Monument
D Daemonelix 33, 69, 70, 86 Daphoenodon 20-21, 22, 32, 38 Darwin, Charles 43, 44, 45 Devil’s Corkscrew 76 Devils Tower National Monument, Wyoming 90 Devonian period 46 Diceratherium 24. See also Menoceras Dinohyus 20-21, 22, 30, 87 Dinosaur National Monument, Colorado and Utah 42, 48, 88 Drought 35, 36, 50-51
E Ecology 53, 61-73 Entelodon 30 Entelodont 30 Eocene epoch 25, 27, 29, 31, 46, 49, 53, 63, 88 Equus 63 Excavations 38, 39
F Field Museum of Natural History 87 Flora 7, 10, 53, 54-59, 60, 71-73 Florissant Fossil Beds National Monument, Colorado 53, 88, 89 Folsom, New Mexico 14; spearpoint, 17 Fort Laramie National Historic Site, Wyoming 90 Fort Robinson State Park, Nebraska 50, 77 Fossil Butte National Monument, Wyoming 89 Fossils 38-41, 47, 86-89
G Geological Museum, University of Wyoming 86 Geology 35, 46, 47-52 Geese, Canada 82 Gerenuk 29 Gering Formation 50 Gopher, pocket 84 Graham, Elisha B. 10 Graham, Mary 10-11 Grasslands 26, 35, 51, 61, 71-72 Gregorymys 33 Guan 28
H Hagerman Fossil Beds National Monument, Idaho 89 Harrison Formation 23, 50, 63 Hawk 56-57, 60; marsh 83; nighthawk 83; Swainson’s 81 Horses 62-63, 66-67. See also Merychippus, Miohippus, Parahippus, Protohippus Hutton, James 45
J Jackrabbit 84 Jefferson, Thomas 42 Jewel Cave National Monument, South Dakota 91 John Day Fossil Beds National Monument, Oregon 89 Jurassic period 46
K Killdeer 83
L Laboratory 40-41 Lamarck, Jean-Baptiste de 43 Laramide Revolution 49 Linnaeus, Carolus 43 Little Bighorn Battlefield National Monument 92 Lucretius (Titus Lucretius Carus) 42 Lyell, Charles 42, 43, 45
M Map 78, 79 Marsh, Othniel C. 8, 9, 11 Marsland Formation 50, 51 Matthew, W. D. 52 McJunkin, George 14 Meadowlark, western 83 Meniscomys 32-33 Menoceras 14, 20-21, 22, 24, 25, 36, 38, 51, 86, 87 Merychippus 52, 58-59, 60, 62-63 Merychyus 20-21, 22 Mesozoic era 46, 47-49 Miocene epoch 46, 49-52, 71-73; animals of 20-37, 62, 63, 64-69, 70; birds of 28 Miohippus 25-26, 27, 64, 66-67 Mississippi Embayment 35, 49 Monroe Creek Formation 50 Morrison, Colorado 48 Moropus 20-21, 22, 29-30, 86-87 Mount Rushmore National Memorial, South Dakota 91 Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard University 87 Museum of Geology, South Dakota School of Mines and Technology 86 Museums, fossils at 86-87. See also American Museum of Natural History, Carnegie Museum
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