The Surface Archaeology of Butte Valley, Death Valley National Monument. William J. Wallace and Edith S. Taylor. Contributions to California Archaeology [No. 1], Archaeological Research Associates, Los Angeles, 1956. i + 15 pp., 3 figs., 2 pls., 2 tables. $0.60. - The Little Sycamore Shellmound, Ventura County. William J. Wallace, Edith S. Taylor, and Others. Contributions to California Archaeology, No. 2, Archaeological Research Associates, Los Angeles, 1956. v + 46 pp., 14 pls., 10 tables. $1.50.

1957 ◽  
Vol 23 (2Part1) ◽  
pp. 203-203
Author(s):  
Clement W. Meighan
Keyword(s):  
Los Angeles ◽  
Death Valley ◽  
Archaeological Research ◽  
National Monument ◽  
Ventura County ◽  
California Archaeology ◽  
Butte Valley ◽  
Surface Archaeology

New Early Devonian pteraspidids (Agnatha, Heterostraci) from Death Valley National Monument, southeastern California

1996 ◽  
Vol 70 (1) ◽  
pp. 152-161 ◽  
Author(s):  
David K. Elliott ◽  
Robert R. Ilyes
Keyword(s):  
Estuarine Environment ◽  
Death Valley ◽  
Early Devonian ◽  
National Monument ◽  
Bearing Unit ◽  
Late Emsian

Two species and genera of pteraspidids (Agnatha, Heterostraci), Blieckaspis priscillae n. gen., and Panamintaspis snowi n. gen. and n. sp., together with two undetermined species, are described from the lower part of the Lippincott Member of the Lost Burro Formation, southeastern California. The sharing of similar faunal elements with the Early Devonian assemblages of the Sevy Dolomite and Water Canyon Formation of Utah and Nevada, respectively, together with stratigraphic constraints on the age of the Death Valley fauna, suggest that these assemblages are age equivalent and have a late Emsian (inversus–serotinus Zones) age. The vertebrate-bearing unit of the Lippincott Member is interpreted as a channel-fill deposit laid down in an estuarine environment with low or fluctuating salinity.

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