Literature About Shark Tooth Hill

[finderskeepers]

I am always looking for quality books on fossil identification. I'd like to go to Shark Tooth Hill in the next few years. I have books on North Carolina, Florida, and Maryland and Virginia Miocene fossils but I don't have anything about Bakersfield, California. Are there books about Shark Tooth Hill?

[Auspex]

This is 15 pages (not an exhaustive treatise, but a decent field guide).

It should be available from the Buena Vista Museum.

[sixgill pete]

Elasmo.com also has a Shark Tooth Hill page in their faunas section.

[finderskeepers]

thank you both, I am familiar with elasmo. com ( great website). I'm gonna search for that finder's guide.

[siteseer]

Other than a couple of short guides, there isn't a more substantial identification guide like you see from the east coast. There was a general faunal review which also provided the history of collecting the Sharktooth Hill Bonebed (Mitchell, 1965). You can find a variety of articles on particular groups. Prothero et al. (2008) has a good listing of STH-related publications.

Mitchell. E.D. 1965.

History of Research at Sharktooth Hill, Kern County, California. Special Publication of the Kern County Historical Society, Kern County Museum. 45pp.

Prothero, D.R., M.R. Liter, L.G. Barnes, X. Wang, E. Mitchell, S. MacLeod, D.P. Whistler, R.H. Tedford, and C. Ray. 2008.

Land Mammals from the Middle Miocene Sharktooth Hill Bonebed, Kern County, California. In Lucas, S.G., G.S. Morgan, J.A. Spielmann, and D.R. Prothero. Neogene Mammals. Bulletin 44. Mew Mexico Museum of Natural History & Science. Albuquerque.

I am always looking for quality books on fossil identification. I'd like to go to Shark Tooth Hill in the next few years. I have books on North Carolina, Florida, and Maryland and Virginia Miocene fossils but I don't have anything about Bakersfield, California. Are there books about Shark Tooth Hill?