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I.—Prof. E. D. Cope, on a New Type of Perissodactyle Ungulate From the Wasatch Eocene of Wyoming Territory, United States of North America

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 May 2009

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In his last published volume on the Vertebrata of the Territories,1 Prof. Edward D. Cope has figured and described many new and remarkable forms of the Order Ungulata from the Eocene of Wyoming. The most important and interesting among the numerous species described being the genus Phenacodus, of which the nearly entire skeletons of two species have been discovered, namely P. primœvus, represented in our plate (Plate II.) and P. Vortmani.

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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1886

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page 49 note 1 “Report United States Geological Snrvey of the Territories,” Hayden, F. V.. vol. iii.Google ScholarThe Vertebrata of the Tertiary Formation of the West,” Cope, Edward D.. Washington, 1884 (inner title 1883); 4to. pp. xxxiv. and 1009; plates 75, several folding.Google Scholar

page 49 note 2 The American Naturalist, vol. xv. 1881, p. 1017.

page 51 note 1 American Naturalist, October, 1880.

page 51 note 2 Proceedings American Philosophical Society, September, 1881.

page 51 note 3 Ovis Canadensis, “The Rocky Mountain Sheep.”