Fossil mammals of the Wahsatch and Wind River beds : collection of 1891
Title:
Fossil mammals of the Wahsatch and Wind River beds : collection of 1891
Author:
Osborn, Henry Fairfield, 1857-1935.
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Publication Information:
[New York] : [Published by order of the Trustees of the American Museum of Natural History], [1892]
Physical Description:
pages 81-147, 2 unnumbered leaves of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm.
General Note:
Title from caption.
Date of publication: Oct. 20, 1892. Cf. introd. text to v. 4.
"This paper is mainly given to a description of a collection made by Dr. Wortman in the Wahsatch (Big Horn) and lower Bridger (Wind River) beds during the summer of 1891."
Language:
English
Contents:
Homologies and nomenclature of the mammalian molar cusps -- The classification of the Perissodactyla -- The ancestry of the Felidae -- Taxonomy and morphology of the primates, creodonts and ungulates. 1, Wahsatch. 2, Wind River -- Geological and geographical sketch of the Big Horn Basin -- Narrative of the expedition of 1891.
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