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13. On Kansas Vertebrate Fossils.—Prof. EK. D. Cope has given 
a brief account, in the Proceedings of the Philosophical Society of 
Philadelphia, October, 1871, 0 of some fossil vertebrates in ‘the 
collections of the State ph ete College of Kansas. They 
include the following species 
jodon dyspelor Cope, now for the first time announced as a 
Kansas species; a species of Liodon near L. proriger Cope, and 
another near L. ictericus Cope; Liodon latispinus Cope, a new 
species of large eine, ee equalling the L. mipeipscneti that is 40 
rium Cope ; Cehinerodected near J. etenodon Co e% 
contractus, a new genus and species, near Ichthyoe dectes in the 
ing lateral grooves, but like those of Suwrocephalus 
by himself on an excursion in “thie valies of ‘Smoky 1 iver, in 
Kansas, On Butte Creek a large part of the skeleton of a monster 
saurian, the Liodon dyspelor Cope, was exhume n the same 
bluff another Liodon and a Clidastes were discovered, with s 
— fishes. In neighboring bluffs, bones supposed to be hole 
a Pterodactyl, of two species of Clidastes , a ae a 
acorn: and of numerous fishes were brought to 
At a similar ot ome on Fox Creek, M. V. Hartwell found the 
skeleton of a very large fish, with “ uncommonly powerful offen- 
sive dentition, i. probably of the Saurodonts. He names this Cre- 
taceous +e ies Portheus motlossus. In the same region t the 2 
others of several species of Clidas Near Russel Pipers; on 
the Smoky Hill, twenty-six miles ‘alti a large Clidastes was 
found, also bones of Liodon ictericus and of two new Clidastes. 
Prof, Cope adds that oe giants of this Cretabeons sea were the 
Liodon proriger Cope, LZ. dyspelor Cope, Polyecotylus latipinnis 
sas and Hlasmosaurus platyurus 3s Co Of these, the first was 
apparently the most abundant; the second was the longest, ex- 
ceeding in length perhaps any other known reptile; the la 
named had the most a body, and oxhibined an extraordinary 
eck. 
es Illustrated Oardigus ibe the —- of “cs pdm mt 
IY. - IV. Deep-Sea Corals L. 
bridge 1871. 93 pe. uart ise eight ree in vitor —In 
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lly described, and most of them are beautifully ‘seas The 
Work is not only the most complete account aug has yet appeared 
AM. Jour. Sot.—Turrp Series, Vou. III, No. 13.—dax., 
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