. The age of mammals in Europe, Asia and North America. Mammals, Fossil; Paleontology. 474 THE AGE OF MAMMALS Phasianinae belong to a group hitherto unrecorded in America. The present range of the sub-family of peacocks is now limited to the Oriental region of southern Asia, but fossil forms are recorded from the Miocene, Pliocene, and Pleistocene of Europe, and from the Siwalik beds of India. The occur- rence of this species {Pavo californicus) in America is therefore to be con-. FiG. 206. — Skeleton of the great South American saber-tooth 'tiger' Smilodon neogceus of the Pampean Pleistocene.
. The age of mammals in Europe, Asia and North America. Mammals, Fossil; Paleontology. 474 THE AGE OF MAMMALS Phasianinae belong to a group hitherto unrecorded in America. The present range of the sub-family of peacocks is now limited to the Oriental region of southern Asia, but fossil forms are recorded from the Miocene, Pliocene, and Pleistocene of Europe, and from the Siwalik beds of India. The occur- rence of this species {Pavo californicus) in America is therefore to be con-. FiG. 206. — Skeleton of the great South American saber-tooth 'tiger' Smilodon neogceus of the Pampean Pleistocene. In the American Museum of Natural History. sidered in connection with the Pliocene invasion (p. 337) of the Pacific Coast by Asiatic antelopes. At Washtucna Lake, Franklin County, Washington^ (Fig- 194, 32), there is a large proportion of forest aiid mountain types but there are no aquatic mammals.^ Whether the animals found here are truly associated in the same level is not known. In the same neighborhood are boggy springs from which Elephas columbi and a species of Bison have been ob- tained, a fact which adds to the suspicion that this is a mixed fauna. This appears to belong to the latter part of the Equus-Mylodon-Camelops Zone, and associated with these plains-living forms are remains of distinctively forest types, including two species of moose (Alces) and of Virginia deer (Odocoileus), as well as of a mountain sheep {Ovis montana). Among the felids we find the puma {Felis concolor), and a larger leonine cat {F. impe- rialis), as well as the lynx (F. canadensis). ^ Cope, E. D., The Vertebrate Fauna of the Equus Beds. Amer. Natural., Vol. XXIII, 1889, pp. 160-165. - Matthew, W. D., List of the Pleistocene Fauna from Hay Springs, Nebraska. Bull. Amer. Mus. Nat. Hist., Vol. XVI, Art. xxiv, Sept. 25, 1902, pp. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of t
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