Paleontologic Investigations at Big Bone Lick State Park, Kentucky: A Preliminary Report

Authors

C. Bertrand Schultz, University of Nebraska State MuseumFollow
Lloyd G. Tanner, University of Nebraska State MuseumFollow
Frank C. Whitmore Jr., U.S. Geological Survey
Louis L. Ray, U.S. Geological Survey
Ellis C. Crawford, William P. Behringer Memorial

Date of this Version

1963

Comments

Published in Science, New Series, Vol. 142, No. 3596 (Nov. 29, 1963), pp. 1167-1169.

Abstract

The Big Bone Lick area in Ketttucky, 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.