. Description of new carnivores from the Miocene of western Nebraska. Carnivora, Fossil; Paleontology; Paleontology. Fig. 56. Anterior View of Humerus of Canid. Sp. indt. J nat. size. No. 2400. miles east of the Agate Spring Fossil Quarries. With the exception of its greater size and the greater distal extent of the deltoid ridge this humerus most nearly resembles that of Daphcenodon. The bone is very nearly the size of the humerus of Amphicyon major of Europe and not unlike the latter, so far as comparisons can be made. In the Amer- ican species, however, the deltoid ridge extends lower down
. Description of new carnivores from the Miocene of western Nebraska. Carnivora, Fossil; Paleontology; Paleontology. Fig. 56. Anterior View of Humerus of Canid. Sp. indt. J nat. size. No. 2400. miles east of the Agate Spring Fossil Quarries. With the exception of its greater size and the greater distal extent of the deltoid ridge this humerus most nearly resembles that of Daphcenodon. The bone is very nearly the size of the humerus of Amphicyon major of Europe and not unlike the latter, so far as comparisons can be made. In the Amer- ican species, however, the deltoid ridge extends lower down and the anconeal fossa is not so high as in the European species. The humerus possibly rep- resents some genus closely related to such large forms as Dinocyon from the later Tertiary of Montana de- scribed by Mr. E. Douglass23 or D. (Borophagus) gidleyi from the Miocene of Texas described by Dr. W. D. The quarry in which the hu- merus (fig. 56) was found contains a similar fauna to that of the Agate Spring Fossil Quarries. A fifth metacarpal (No. 1897) of a large carnivore, which may belong to this species, was found by the writer in 1904 among the surface fragments in the quarry, which was worked the following years by Professor Barbour (Agate Spring Fossil «"New Vertebrates from the Montana Tertiary," Ann. Car. Mns., Vol. II, p. 192, 1903. ""A Skull of Dinocyon from the Miocene of Texas," Bull. Amer. Mus., Vol. XVI, p. 129, Fig. 57. Fibular and AnteriorViews of Calcaneum of Cauid sp. indet. i nat. size. No. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Peterson, O. A. (Olof August), 1865-; Carnegie Museum. Pittsburgh : Published by the authority of the Board of Trustees of the Carnegie Institute
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