The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-05-28
FOSSILS IN WYOMING.


A great many bones of the. ancient
dinosaur have been found in Wyo-
ming, and the field has scarcely been
touched. There is no square on the
earth" saws Curator W. II. Reed, OF
the University of Wyoming, "as rich as
wyoming in its fossil forms of ancient
life The first great fossil expedition
ever sent 10 that State was in 1890
and since that time other expeditions
l,aye made many valuable discoveries of
~. ,onr-neglected bones of all sorts OF
beasts and birds that formerly dWeit
in that region. There are TO be found
such fossil remains nowhere IN tle
offe,e East In the several geological
periods specimens of living things that
were have been found-in the Jurasslc
formation, all that is left of the dino
saur; in the Cretaceous, swarnls Oh
.,ipa,tic plobular concretons and coal
beds with fossil palms and deciauous
trees. in the Tertiary, inonstrous mann
malian bones. remnants of Nature
efforts in preparing the various beasts
of the present time and In the
gravel spread and boulder-dotted ter
races of the Pleiosticene age, records
of the former floods which worked SO
faithfully to humble the pride of the
rising Rockies and convey their gran
deur to beautify and enrich the plans
of the Mississippi More than TINS
in the dinosaur beds of the Jurassic
considerable fauna of fresh-water in
vertebrates have been found, and SCI
ence is now substituting in the mon
sters OF geological lore from this great
text book the whole brood of Inytho-
logical monsters. ccntaurs, Sriffons,
chimeras and dragons, once swept into
oblivion. and now, happily, being re-
stored to the fancy. if not TO the life,
of these times from which, as we have
almost daily opportunity of observing,
the fossils have not been entirely driven
out.
All forms of geological phenomena
have been so we'll presented by the eN-
petitions in Wyoming as to be we'll
nigh diagrammatc Students of struc-
tural geology have found in the Wyo'
ming mountains such monoclincs. syn.
clines and anticlines rs they have no,
dents of photographic geology have
observed here peneplanation on a
world wide scale and such examples OF
erosion as they have found nowhere
else. from the cuttings Of rivulets
through non resistant regolith TO the
powerful carving of the Grand Platte
through Mezoic sandstones and lime
stones through Paleozoic rocks Of
similar character and through Archean
quantities. and granite" Then the
photographers for collecting sedimen
tary rocks. representing geological
periods all thatWay. from Tertiary to-
ordovIcan. and 'crystallines from the
Paleozoic and Archean have here found
excellent opportunity for the study Of
the problems in which they are par
ticularly interested. 1nvertebrate pale
ontologists have Jared even better than
the photographers and mineralogists. as
the variety and quantity of their col
lections abundantly testify, All this
may be intensely interesting to those
of scientific bent, but IL is not to the
general reader, perhaps, who must,
however, admit that there have been
many things in the past. as there will
probably be many things in the fu-
ture, that he has never dreamed OF ir
his invertebrate philosophy We holt
il TO be one of tho missions of the press
to keep up with the discoveries of sci
ence as well as with, the little and big
things that vex our present hfe.
We should never have known where
the horse started if ii had not beer
for the diggers after fossils in this
4 great Wyoming museum In the low
s est horizon of the Tertiary. at the foo
of the Wasatch Mountains, three
toed horse was found and even a four
of horses foot We're found show,
ing that the bones of the toes wer,
drawing up, leaving one central toe
and when Professor o. C. Marsh worked
up into the upper Pliocene Tertiary h
found the horse as he is to-day witt
the exception of the size This is ex
ceedingly interesting and instructiv
withal. 1t shows how far we hay
travelled since the lowest horizon o
the Tertiary was formed Looking a
The magnificent horses we have in vir
GINA nowadays, no one would thin
that any of their relatives had eve
gone around with three and four toe
To the foot. But that was before tn
hoof was formed.
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