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Show FOSSIL BED Skeleton ;of 'a ; Prehistoric William ; Goat Discoveredin Discov-eredin :Nctada.; BERKELEY. Cal., ' De&N !L Important. Impor-tant. discoverie' In .Western. fossil beds were announced by Prof.' John C.'Mer-riam, C.'Mer-riam, - head 'of . the paleontologies! department de-partment of the TTniversity 'of - California Califor-nia before the cordllleran. section of the Geological Society .of America In the sixth annual meeting of. that organisation. organisa-tion. . ' ; ; j '. ' ,' ; A" remarkable specimenof the very early' Ichthyosaurus 'was unearthed in the middle triassio limestones of Nevada. Ne-vada. After being chiseled out of the hard limestone matrix In which the bones were -imbedded, the specimen showed the greater part of the anterior half of the body. Including- the skull, vertebrae and front limb or paddle. Another - Important find' was that made in the, Samuel cave In S Bait a county. The specimen - was a new sheep-like : form of . enormous ' size, hitherto unknown to science. It consisted con-sisted of the greater, part of the skeleton skele-ton of an . animal as . large, as an elk, but .with distinctively sheep and goat affinities. The most noticeable feature of the fossil is the horns, which are so large and magnificently formed that they make the animal, distinctive So complete Is the skeleton of this beast that it will soon be set up in the Paleon-tological Paleon-tological museum at Berkeley jfur general gen-eral exhibition. f - |