Show UTAH'S DESERT REGION YIELDS RICH TREASURE TO PROFESSORS Evolutionary E Order Ol ler of Fossils Traced in Great Gorge SKULLS DISCLOSED Light Thrown Upon Con Con- Connection nc tion Between Hemispheres BERKELEY Calif July 18 By B B The rhe Associated Press Fresh Fresh from a Journey of investigation Into the painted desert region of Arizona eastern Utah and Colorado three In Instructors in- in instructors of ot the University of ot Cali Cali- California CalifornIa California fornia have returned here bringing with them besides several fragmentary fragmentary tary t. fossils three complete skulls and geological data dal which they expect will help to verify the e evolutionary evolutionary sequences of or the triassic pe period pe- pe period nod which had its beginning some years ears ago alo GREAT CHEAT OPPORTUNITY The instructors Professor C L L. Camp paleontologist Dr S. S C. C Pep Pcp Pepper per cr assistant professor of or philosophy and James P. P Fox Fo geologist red declared that the painted desert region offered splendid opportunity to trace both geological order of or the strata straw and ev- ev order of fossils contained there here due to the peculiar formation o othe of the strata of the Colorado Colondo and Its Us tributaries which permit observatIon of easily identified bones In distinctly separated levels leveis or horizons an unusual al occurrence This eliminates the ne ne- necessity ne- ne necessity of ot the process employed In Inmost Inmost inmost most cases In which geologists ar are arc forced to rely upon fossils to place strata in their proper order and pale pale- paleontologists in turn check on the se sequences se- se sequences of the fossils by study of ot th the strata LAND CONNECTION 7 Paleontologists regard the triassic period which extended over years cars as of special significance because it is recognized as proof of tb the existence either of land connection be between be- be between between tween the hemispheres or climatic conditions enabling animals to effect a crossing over o what are areno now v arctic exist before the triassic period Is car car- certain certaIn tain lain as there is a wide variance 1 In American and European fossil species of ot the permIan period preceding In the l while strata of the latter cr ens unearthed in Germany revealed re several severa several of pre hIstoric animals with a marked similarity |