Stock, Chester; Cenozoic Gravigrade Edentates of Western North America. With Special Reference to The Pleistocene Megalonychinae and Mylodontidae of Rancho La Brea. Publication Number 331, Carnegie Institution of Washington, Washington, D.C, 1925. Quarto, pp. xiv, 206, frontispiece, 47 plates, 120 text figures, 94 tables.
The work is complete and in the original soft title wraps. The binding is tight and clean with minor spine wear, book plate removed from inside of front cover, no stamps or signatures. The text and plates are very clean. In very good condition.
Chester Stock (1892-1950) an American paleontologist at the University of Los Angeles who specialized in the study of vertebrate fossil remains from the Rancho La Brea tar pits in Los Angeles. His major work was a study of the large ground sloths (edentates) that inhabited Southern California in the late Pleistocene. That work is “Cenozoic Gravigrade Edentates of Western North America”. Most of the ground sloth specimens that Stock studied were dug out of the Rancho La Brea tar pits in downtown Los Angeles.20.
