Bulletin of the United States Geological and Geographical Survey of the Territories, 1. köide,1. numberU.S. Government Printing Office, 1874 |
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... character of a line of bluffs varying from two to nine hundred feet in height . This line forms the eastern border of the valley of Crow Creek , until it bends to the eastward , when it extends in a nearly east and west direction for at ...
... character of a line of bluffs varying from two to nine hundred feet in height . This line forms the eastern border of the valley of Crow Creek , until it bends to the eastward , when it extends in a nearly east and west direction for at ...
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... character . Enamel smooth , with a medium keel , and entire margin . Various parts of the skeleton indicate an animal of the size of a horse . Amer . Jour . Sci . Arts , 1870 , p . 292 . || Loc . Cit . , 1873 , p . 486 . CANIS , sp ...
... character . Enamel smooth , with a medium keel , and entire margin . Various parts of the skeleton indicate an animal of the size of a horse . Amer . Jour . Sci . Arts , 1870 , p . 292 . || Loc . Cit . , 1873 , p . 486 . CANIS , sp ...
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... characters of the genus Aphelops . The nasal bones are long , acuminate , straight , and not coös- sified . They are tectiform , and distally compressed , instead of flattened , as in two specimens of A. megalodus ; they are also quite ...
... characters of the genus Aphelops . The nasal bones are long , acuminate , straight , and not coös- sified . They are tectiform , and distally compressed , instead of flattened , as in two specimens of A. megalodus ; they are also quite ...
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... character is not so marked as in the latter . It differs strikingly in the deep and convex symphysis , and , in the only specimen in which its alveolar border is preserved , in the hiatus sepa- rating the inferior canine from the ...
... character is not so marked as in the latter . It differs strikingly in the deep and convex symphysis , and , in the only specimen in which its alveolar border is preserved , in the hiatus sepa- rating the inferior canine from the ...
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... character provided for by the greater , lateral distal expansion of the metapodial bones . The shortness of the metapodial bone is not due to the fact of its being a metacarpal ; the femoral condyles are adherent to it in the matrix ...
... character provided for by the greater , lateral distal expansion of the metapodial bones . The shortness of the metapodial bone is not due to the fact of its being a metacarpal ; the femoral condyles are adherent to it in the matrix ...
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alveoli angle angustidens anteroposterior articular face bones BRARY UNIVERSITY Brontotherium calcaneum CALIFOR CALIFORNIA CALIFORNIA SAN Camelida canine centrum cervical vertebræ coffin-bone Colorado condyles crassus crescent crest cuboid dentition Diameter proximal diastema DIEGO RSITY Dinictis distally dorsal E. D. Cope enamel facet Firehole River foramen formation Fossil Flora front genus Henry Gannett Hippotherium horse humerus Hypertragulus incisors inferior molar keel labrosus lakes last molar last premolar latter Leidy Leidy's Length crown Leptomeryx LIBRARY THE UNIVERSITY lobe mandible mandibular ramus maxillary median megalodus Merychippus metacarpals metapodial molar teeth occipital condyle Oreodon Paleontologist perditus phalange Pliocene Poëbrotherium posterior posteriorly premolar teeth PROCAMELUS Prof Protohippus ridge robustus SAN DIEGO CALIFORNIA SAN DIEGO ERSITY SAN DIEGO LIBRARY SAN DIEGO UNIVERSITY second premolar sejunctus SITY specimens superior molars superior premolar symphysis Synopsis Territories third molar transverse trochlear true molar tubercle tuberosity UNIVERSITY DIEGO UNIVERSITY LIBRARY UNIVERSITY SAN DIEGO VERSITY Vertebrata worn