BY ROBERT W. WILSON University of Kansas Publications Museum of Natural History Volume 5, No. 1, pp. 1-11, 1 figure in text February 24, 1951 University of Kansas LAWRENCE 1951 University of Kansas Publications, Museum of Natural History Editors: E. Raymond Hall, Chairman, A. Byron Leonard, Edward H. Taylor, Robert W. Wilson Volume 5, No. 1, pp. 1-11, 1 figure in text February 24, 1951 University of Kansas Lawrence, Kansas PRINTED BY FERD VOILAND, JR., STATE PRINTER TOPEKA, KANSAS 1951 23-4458..

By ROBERT W. WILSON...

Angels Peak stands on the eastern rim of a large area of badlands carved by a tributary of the San Juan River from Paleocene strata of the Nacimiento formation, and presumably also from Wasatchian strata of the San José (Simpson, 1948). This area of badlands lies some twelve miles south of Bloomfield, New Mexico in the Kutz Canyon drainage. Angels Peak (Angel Peak of Granger, 1917) and Kutz Canyon (Coots Cañon of Granger, and of Matthew, 1937) are names that have been applied to the location (fi

The mammalian fossils, numbering approximately 150 specimens, were all obtained within a small area located in the NW 1/4 of sec. 14, T. 27 N, R. 11 W, San Juan County, New Mexico. The specimens were collected from a zone of reddish silt three to four feet in thickness. The actual bone layer, not as yet located, may prove to be thinner than this. Almost all the material was recovered from approximately 100 linear yards of outcrop. A few specimens, however, were obtained at varying distances away

The following mammalian species have been identified as present in the Angels Peak "pocket". Order Multituberculata Family Ptilodontidae Mimetodon? cf. M. trovessartianus Order Insectivora Family Palaeoryctidae Palaeoryctes cf. P. puercensis Family Leptictidae Prodiacodon? sp. Family Pantolestidae Pentacodon n. sp. Family Mixodectidae Indrodon malaris Order Primates Family Anaptomorphidae anaptomorphid? new gen. and sp. (70 feet stratigraphically below level of Angels Peak pocket). ? Primates, g

The total number of specimens for each member (species or genus) of the faunule is tabulated in the list on the page facing, page 7. For the purposes of this list, census, a few of the isolated teeth have been counted as jaws. They were so counted whenever they seemed to be representative of separate, individual animals. The census-count includes all of the specimens that were identified. The numbers in parentheses, on page 7, refer to those individuals that were found outside of the 100 linear

The Angels Peak faunule, as Granger stated, is of Torrejonian age. This fact is clearly evident for the genera are all, with the exception of the forms referred to the Primates, represented in beds of that age elsewhere in the Nacimiento. Further, approximately two-thirds of the known "Torrejon" genera are recorded by specimens from the Angels Peak pocket. The primate remains present no evidence for suspecting a difference in age, because the order is otherwise unrecorded in the Torrejonian of N