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The Recognition of Pleistocene Faunas

by Oliver Perry Hay

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The Recognition of Pleistocene Faunas is a 1919 Smithsonian paper by Oliver Perry Hay (1846-1930), the American authority on the Ice Age vertebrates of North America. The paper sets out criteria for identifying and correlating Pleistocene faunal assemblages: the diagnostic mammals of the successive glacial and interglacial stages, the problems of mixed and reworked deposits, and the use of extinct species such as the mammoths, mastodons, ground sloths, and native horses in dating Quaternary beds. Hay's three-volume work on the Pleistocene of North America, published by the Carnegie Institution through the 1920s, built on the framework outlined here. The paper is a foundational document of North American Quaternary paleontology and remains of interest to historians of Ice Age science.

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Oliver Perry Hay

Oliver Perry Hay pursued zoology and vertebrate palaeontology, organizing knowledge of fossil reptiles and mammals through detailed comparative research. After teaching science and working in museum zoology, he became a research associate of the Carnegie Institution and studied collections at the United States National Museum.

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First published
1863
Reading time
About 20 minutes
Pages
27
Language
English
Genre
History
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