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Fossil mammals of the Wahsatch and Wind River beds

Title

Fossil mammals of the Wahsatch and Wind River beds : collection of 1891

Title Variants

Alternative: Osborn and Wortman on fossil mammals

By

Osborn, Henry Fairfield, 1857-1935

Wortman, J. L. (Jacob Lawson), 1856-1926

Type

Book

Material

Published material

Publication info

[New York] [Published by order of the Trustees, American Museum of Natural History] [1892]

Edition

Author's edition.

Notes

Caption title.

"Extracted from Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History, vol. IV, no. I, article XI, pp. 81-148"--Cover.

At head of title: Article 11.

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."

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.