Agate Fossil Beds National Monument, Nebraska

by United States. National Park Service

Index

Numbers in italics refer to photographs, illustrations, charts, or maps.

[A] [B] [C] [D] [E] [F] [G] [H] I [J] [K] [L] [M] [N] [O] [P] [Q] [R] [S] [T] [U] [V] [W] X Y Z

A Aepinacodon [54-55], [60] Agate Fossil Beds National Monument [11], [14], [50]; animals at, [20-22], [24-34], [84]; birding at, [81], [82-83], [85]; established, [17], [78]; geology of [23], [47-52]; museum specimen of, [38], [86-87]; topography of, [7]; visitor information [77-80] Agate Springs Ranch [7], [10], [17]; excavations at, [38], [39]; fossils from, [40-41], [86-87] Alligator [54-55], [60] [American Museum of Natural History] [14], [38], [52], [87] Aplodontia [32]

B Badlands National Park, South Dakota [88], [90] Barbour, Erwin H. [11], [14], [38] Big Badlands, South Dakota [49], [52] Bighorn Canyon National Recreation Area, Montana-Wyoming [92] Bittern, American [83] Blackbird, red-winged [82] Bone Cabin, Wyoming [48] Breeding Bird Survey, U.S. Fish and Wildlife [81], [82-83], [85] Buteos (buzzard hawks) [28]

C Cambrian period [46] Camels. See [Oxydactylus], [Stenomylus] Camping [78] Carboniferous period [46] Carnegie Hill [12-13], [14], [37], [77] [Carnegie Museum] [14], [38], [39], [40-41], [69], [87], [88] Carnivores, small [32-34] Cenozoic Era [46], [47], [49], [52] Chalicotheres. See [Moropus] Cheyenne River [52] Cleveland, Utah [48] Colorado Plateau [49] Como Bluff, Wyoming [48] Cook, Eleanor Barbour [14] Cook, Harold [10], [14], [17], [52] Cook, James H. [6], [8], [10-11], [14], [77]; buys Agate Springs Ranch, [7], [10]; discovers fossils, [11], [24], [38] Cook, Kate Graham [10-11], [14] Cook, Margaret Crozier [17] Cook Museum of Natural History [17] Cope, Edward Drinker [9], [11], [14] Coyote [84] Cretaceous period [46] Curlew, long-billed [82] Cuvier, Georges [42], [43], [45] Custer Battlefield National Monument. See [Little Bighorn Battlefield National Monument]

D Daemonelix [33], [69], [70], [86] Daphoenodon [20-21], [22], [32], [38] Darwin, Charles [43], [44], [45] Devil’s Corkscrew [76] Devils Tower National Monument, Wyoming [90] Devonian period [46] Diceratherium [24]. See also [Menoceras] Dinohyus [20-21], [22], [30], [87] Dinosaur National Monument, Colorado and Utah [42], [48], [88] Drought [35], [36], [50-51]

E Ecology [53], [61-73] Entelodon [30] Entelodont [30] Eocene epoch [25], [27], [29], [31], [46], [49], [53], [63], [88] Equus [63] Excavations [38], [39]

F Field Museum of Natural History [87] Flora [7], [10], [53], [54-59], [60], [71-73] Florissant Fossil Beds National Monument, Colorado [53], [88], [89] Folsom, New Mexico [14]; spearpoint, [17] Fort Laramie National Historic Site, Wyoming [90] Fort Robinson State Park, Nebraska [50], [77] Fossil Butte National Monument, Wyoming [89] Fossils [38-41], [47], [86-89]

G Geological Museum, University of Wyoming [86] Geology [35], [46], [47-52] Geese, Canada [82] Gerenuk [29] Gering Formation [50] Gopher, pocket [84] Graham, Elisha B. [10] Graham, Mary [10-11] Grasslands [26], [35], [51], [61], [71-72] Gregorymys [33] Guan [28]

H Hagerman Fossil Beds National Monument, Idaho [89] Harrison Formation [23], [50], [63] Hawk [56-57], [60]; marsh [83]; nighthawk [83]; Swainson’s [81] Horses [62-63], [66-67]. See also [Merychippus], [Miohippus], [Parahippus], [Protohippus] Hutton, James [45]

J Jackrabbit [84] Jefferson, Thomas [42] Jewel Cave National Monument, South Dakota [91] John Day Fossil Beds National Monument, Oregon [89] Jurassic period [46]

K Killdeer [83]

L Laboratory [40-41] Lamarck, Jean-Baptiste de [43] Laramide Revolution [49] Linnaeus, Carolus [43] [Little Bighorn Battlefield National Monument] [92] Lucretius (Titus Lucretius Carus) [42] Lyell, Charles [42], [43], [45]

M Map [78], [79] Marsh, Othniel C. [8], [9], [11] Marsland Formation [50], [51] Matthew, W. D. [52] McJunkin, George [14] Meadowlark, western [83] Meniscomys [32-33] [Menoceras] [14], [20-21], [22], [24], [25], [36], [38], [51], [86], [87] [Merychippus] [52], [58-59], [60], [62-63] Merychyus [20-21], [22] Mesozoic era [46], [47-49] Miocene epoch [46], [49-52], [71-73]; animals of [20-37], [62], [63], [64-69], [70]; birds of [28] [Miohippus] [25-26], [27], [64], [66-67] Mississippi Embayment [35], [49] Monroe Creek Formation [50] Morrison, Colorado [48] [Moropus] [20-21], [22], [29-30], [86-87] Mount Rushmore National Memorial, South Dakota [91] Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard University [87] Museum of Geology, South Dakota School of Mines and Technology [86] Museums, fossils at [86-87]. See also [American Museum of Natural History], [Carnegie Museum]

N Nanotragulus [27-28] National Park Service [17], [88-92] Nighthawk [83] Nimravus [32] Niobrara River [7], [16], [23-24], [36], [37], [50], [54-55], [60] North Platte River [52] Nothocyon [32], [33]

O Oglala Sioux Indians [7], [11]. See also [Red Cloud] Oligobunis [32] Oligocene epoch [25], [31], [46], [49], [50], [52], [53], [70], [88]; animals of [61], [63] Opossum [54-55], [60] Ordovician period [46] Oreodon [25], [54-55], [60], [63] Osborn, Henry F. [14], [38] Owl, great horned [83] [Oxydactylus] [20-21], [22], [28], [56-57], [60]

P Palaeocastor [14], [20-21], [22], [33], [64], [68-69], [70-71], [77], [86] Palaeolagus [34] Paleocene epoch [46], [53] Paleozoic era [46], [47-48] [Parahippus] [20-21], [22], [27], [56-57], [60], [62], [67] Permian period [46] Peterson, O. A. [14], [38], [39] Petrified Forest National Park, Arizona [89] Pigs [30-31] Pine Ridge, South Dakota [52] Pleistocene epoch [28-29], [46], [64], [67] Pliocene epoch [24-25], [27], [46], [52], [63] Portheus [48] Precambrian era [46] Promerycochoerus [20-21], [22], [25], [87] Pronghorn (artiodactyls) [63], [84]. See also [Syndyoceras] Protoceras [31] [Protohippus] [62], [63] Pseudaelurus [32], [58-59], [60]

Q Quaternary period [46]

R [Red Cloud] [9], [11] Rhinoceros [24-25], [50], [51], [63] Rocky Mountain National Park, Colorado [92] Rocky Mountain Revolution [51], [52] Runningwater Formation [51] Rodents [32-34]

S Sandpiper, upland [14] Scotts Bluff National Monument, Nebraska [49], [91] Sheep Creek Formation [52] Silurian period [46] Smiley Canyon, Nebraska [50] Snake, hognose [84] [Stenomylus] [14], [20-21], [22], [29], [37], [39], [50], [64-65], [86], [87]; hitchcocki, [51] Sundance Formation [48] [Syndyoceras] [20-21], [22], [31] Synthetoceras [31-32]

T Teeth, high-crowned [62-63] Temnocyon [32] Tertiary period [46], [53] Theodore Roosevelt National Park, North Dakota [92] Thompson, Albert [14], [38] Toadstool Park, Nebraska [49] Tortoise [33-34] Trailside Museum, Nebraska [86] Triassic period [46]

U Uniformitarianism [42], [43], [45] University Hill [7], [12-13], [35]; digging at, [14]; formation of [37]; tourist facilities at, [77] University of Nebraska State Museum [86]

V Visitor information [77-80], [86-92] Von Linne, Karl [43]

W Wallace, Alfred [45] White River [52]; Badlands [31]; Beds [49] Wildflowers [7], [10] Wind Cave National Park, South Dakota [91] Wren, house [82]; long-billed marsh [82]

★GPO: 1999—454-765/00504 Reprint 1999