Ogden Weekly Standard | 1905-08-25 | Page 1 | Fossils in California

FOSSILS IN california berkeley cal aug 24 prof mer reain head of the paleontology department part ment of the university of california has just issued a new bulletin on a hitherto unknown type of tiger found in california fossil beds some years ago the university of california was a collection of fossil mammalian remains containing at least two carnivores carn ivores which are new to science one of these has been described as the type of a new and peculiar canine ginus thus the second form represents a aage of eaber tooth tiger differing considerably from those previously described bed the species is known only from a mandible found from the typo of bear the foot of the temblor range at asphalto Asp halto kern county this specimen like the oth era found with it Is covered with a very thin film of gypsum