Part 2
More extensive Late Pliocene fossil beds are exposed south of the park in Cita Canyon. These beds are younger than the Ogallala and are stream and basin deposits. The fauna and flora found here suggest a broad, flat, grassy plain much like the present landscape (Figure 8). Remains of mastodons, large, elephant-like animals with long upper tusks that were used to dig up roots, are found here. Saber-tooth cats, also present, preyed upon the mastodons. The remains of these, as well as bones of camels, pony-sized horses, and sloths 10 feet high have been found in the vicinity of the canyon. Some of these animals are thought to have lived in the Panhandle a mere 10,000 years ago.
_Amebelodon_: shovel-tusked mastodon _Teleoceras_: short-legged rhinoceros _Synthetoceras_: snout-horned even-toed hoofed mammal _Cranioceras_: cranial-horned even-toed hoofed mammal _Merycodus_: extinct pronghorn antelope _Hypolagus_: extinct rabbit _Epigaulus_: burrowing horned rodent _Aphelops_: long-legged rhinoceros _Prosthennops_: extinct peccary _Osteoborus_: short-faced dog _Pseudaelurus_: extinct cat _Hemicyon_: bearlike dog _Procamelus_: llamalike camel _Megatylopus_: giant camel _Pliohippus_: ancestral one-toed horse _Neohipparion_: extinct three-toed horse
Due to limited outcrops in the Canyon proper, Pleistocene fossils are very rare. An excellent collection of fossils from Palo Duro Canyon and the Panhandle area is on display at the Panhandle-Plains Historical Museum.
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Transcriber’s Notes
—Silently corrected several palpable typographical errors.
—Retained the list of corporate sponsors, but with simplified stylesheet.
—The original source had no date or copyright information. Based on external data, original publication of this (revised) edition was within a year or two of 1980.