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Science 29 November 1963:
Vol. 142. no. 3596, pp. 1167 - 1169
DOI: 10.1126/science.142.3596.1167
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Paleontologic Investigations at Big Bone Lick State Park, Kentucky: A Preliminary Report

C. Bertrand Schultz 1, Lloyd G. Tanner 1, Frank C. Whitmore Jr. 2, Louis L. Ray 2, and Ellis C. Crawford 3

1 University of Nebraska State Museum, Lincoln 8
2 U. S. Geological Survey, Washington 25, D. C.
3 William P. Behringer Memorial Museum, Covington, Kentucky

The Big Bone Lick area in Kentucky, the first widely known collecting locality for vertebrate fossils in North America, is being investigated for further faunal and geologic evidence. Mammal bones, ranging in age from Wisconsin (Tazewell?) to Recent, were recovered in 1962 from four different faunal zones in two terrace fills.

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