Hostname: page-component-76fb5796d-qxdb6 Total loading time: 0 Render date: 2024-04-30T04:03:50.227Z Has data issue: false hasContentIssue false
  • English
  • Français

Clarification of the name-bearing type for “Mesohippus” validus Osborn (Mammalia, Perissodactyla)

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 May 2016

Bryn J. Mader
Bryn J. Mader*
Affiliation:
Department of Vertebrate Paleontology, American Museum of Natural History, Central Park West at 79th Street, New York, New York 10024
Get access Rights & Permissions [Opens in a new window]

Extract

In 1904 Osborn named a new species of Mesohippus, M. validus, based on a specimen consisting of a skull, jaws, and portions of the limbs. Osborn identified this specimen as American Museum of Natural History (AMNH) catalog number 680 and provided a brief description, some measurements, and an illustration.

Type
Taxonomic Notes
Information
Journal of Paleontology , Volume 67 , Issue 6 , November 1993 , pp. 1088 - 1090
Copyright
Copyright © The Paleontological Society 

Access options

Get access to the full version of this content by using one of the access options below. (Log in options will check for institutional or personal access. Content may require purchase if you do not have access.)

References

Osborn, H. F. 1904. New Oligocene horses. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History, 20, Article 13:167–179.Google Scholar
Osborn, H. F. 1918. Equidae of the Oligocene, Miocene, and Pliocene of North America, iconographic type revision. Memoirs of the American Museum of Natural History, new series, 2(1):1–326.Google Scholar
Prothero, D. R., and Shubin, N. 1989. The evolution of Oligocene horses, p. 142–175. In Prothero, D. R. and Schoch, R. M. (eds.), The Evolution of Perissodactyls. Oxford Monographs on Geology and Geophysics No. 15, Oxford University Press, New York.Google Scholar
Ride, W. D., Sabrosky, C. W., Bernardi, G., and Melville, R. V. 1985. International Code of Zoological Nomenclature, 3rd edition. International Trust for Zoological Nomenclature, London, 338 p.Google Scholar