THE UNIVERSITY OP KANSAS SCIENCE BULLETIN Vol. XXIX, pt. II.] October 15, 1943 [No. 2 The Rezabek Fauna, a New Pleistocene Fauna from Lincoln County, Kansas CLAUDE W. HIBBARD, Museum of Vertebrate Paleontology, UniversitA-of Kansas Abstract: A new Pleistocene mammalian assemblage is described from Lincoln count}-, Kansas. The mammals were found associated with other vertebrates and numerous in\ertebrates, which are known as the Rezabek fauna. The deposit from which the fauna was recovered is younger than the Meade formation into which it is channeled. The paper treats of the Mam-maha, which are represented by 5 orders, 8 families, 15 genera, and 9 species, of which the following are described as new: Blarina fossilis sp. nov.; Neofiber leonardi sp. no^-. With text figures. INTRODUCTION TN THE summer of 1941, Doctor John C. Frye, State Geologist, J-of the Kansas State Geological Survey, was engaged in a study of the ground-water resources of parts of Russell and Ellis counties, Kansas. During this study Frye located a number of fossil localities in the area under study. That fall Doctor A. B. Leonard and I visited the area and worked with him on the fossil localities. These were reported in a paper by Frye, Leonard and Hibbard (1943). In the summer of 1942, the excess rains in Clark county delayed our work in that area because we were unable to travel the unim-proved roads and trails. Advantage was taken of such conditions to haul a load of matrix from the Rezabek gravel pit to our camp. This matrix was subsequently washed out, and the fossils recovered form the basis of this paper. Acknowledgment is made of the kindness of Mr. Frank Rezabek, who has given us the matrix for study and donated the horse tooth which he had taken from the exposure; to Mr. Lee Larrabee, chair-man, and Mr. Guy D. Josserand, Director, of the Kansas State (235)
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