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Journal Article
C. W. BEEHLER’S COLLECTION OF VERTEBRATE FOSSILS: A LOST LEGACY Available to Purchase
Journal: Earth Sciences History
Publisher: History of Earth Sciences Society
Published: 01 October 2016
Earth Sciences History (2016) 35 (2): 354–374.
...R. Bruce McMillan ABSTRACT The Kimmswick ‘bone bed’, a late Wisconsin paleontological locality in Jefferson County, Missouri, south of St. Louis, has been known since the early nineteenth century. The site gained international recognition in 1843 when a German immigrant and enterprising...
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THE DISCOVERY OF FOSSIL VERTEBRATES ON MISSOURI’S WESTERN FRONTIER Available to Purchase
Journal: Earth Sciences History
Publisher: History of Earth Sciences Society
Published: 01 April 2010
Earth Sciences History (2010) 29 (1): 26–51.
...” (probably dated ca 1901). REFERENCES Adams , R. M. 1941 . Archaeological investigations in Jefferson County, Missouri 1939–40 . Transactions of the Academy of Science of St Louis 30 : 151 – 221 . Adams , R. M. 1953 . The Kimmswick bone bed . The Missouri Archaeologist...
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ALBERT C. KOCH’S MISSOURIUM AND THE DEBATE OVER THE CONTEMPORANEITY OF HUMANS AND THE PLEISTOCENE MEGAFAUNA OF NORTH AMERICA Available to Purchase
Journal: Earth Sciences History
Publisher: History of Earth Sciences Society
Published: 01 December 2022
Earth Sciences History (2022) 41 (2): 410–439.
...]. Thursday, 11 July 1907 edition . Golconda, IL . Graham , R. W. 1979 . The Kimmswick bone beds: A historical perspective . The Living Museum 42 : 40 – 44 . Graham , R. W. 1986 . Stratified cultural and faunal horizons at Kimmswick, Missouri . In: Quaternary Records...
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LETTER FROM THE PRESIDENT Available to Purchase
Journal: Earth Sciences History
Publisher: History of Earth Sciences Society
Published: 01 October 2016
Earth Sciences History (2016) 35 (2): i–iv.
... McMillan, provides a fascinating account of the discovery and attempted exploitation of the Kimmswick ‘bone bed’ by C. W. Beehler, an energetic inventor and manufacturer from St. Louis, Missouri. Beehler discovered the site in 1893 and then worked it from 1897–1904. Because he would not relinquish control...
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ALBERT KOCH’S HYDRARCHOS: A HOAX OR A BONA FIDE COLLECTION OF BONES Available to Purchase
Journal: Earth Sciences History
Publisher: History of Earth Sciences Society
Published: 01 April 2023
Earth Sciences History (2023) 42 (1): 84–101.
... Spalding. REFERENCES Adams , R. M. 1941 . Archaeological Investigations in Jefferson County, Missouri 1939–1940 . Transactions of the Academy of Science of St. Louis 30 : 151 – 221 . Adams , R. M. 1953 . The Kimmswick bone bed . The Missouri Archaeologist 15 ( 4 ): 40...
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Mississippian Border of Eastern Interior Basin Available to Purchase
Journal: AAPG Bulletin
Publisher: American Association of Petroleum Geologists
Published: 01 May 1940
AAPG Bulletin (1940) 24 (5): 765–858.
..., paleontology, sedimentation, and structure and lists petroleum-bearing beds of the Mississippian system in Illinois, Indiana, western Kentucky, eastern Missouri, and southeastern Iowa as based on the published and unpublished investigations of more than 25 geologists and their numerous assistants, who worked...
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Post-Sauk and Pre-Absaroka Paleozoic Stratigraphic Patterns in North America Available to Purchase
Journal: AAPG Bulletin
Publisher: American Association of Petroleum Geologists
Published: 01 August 1963
AAPG Bulletin (1963) 47 (8): 1497–1526.
..., and at least the lower part of the Absaroka, in the interior, appear to be remarkably consistent in their widespread depositional constants and erosional variants. But unlike these, the “Kaskaskia Sequence” does not appear to aid materially in the comprehension and solution of the many “bones of contention...
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An overview of Driftless Area prehistory Available to Purchase
Series: GSA Special Papers
Publisher: Geological Society of America
Published: 15 October 2019
DOI: 10.1130/2019.2543(06)
EISBN: 9780813795430
..., a bison bone bed ( Pond, 1937 ; Palmer, 1954 ). Two side-notched projectile points were also recovered, along with, surprisingly, a copper awl or pike that is over 20 cm long. Since the bison were recognized as belonging to an extinct, long-horn species (now classed as Bison occidentalis ), the site...
