Marsh, Othniel Charles

2 publications

Marsh, Othniel Charles (detail)
1877Introduction and succession of vertebrate life in America.
Amer. Jour. Sci. (3)14: 337-378.
—Repr.: Proc. Amer. Assoc. Adv. Sci. 26: 211-258, 1878. Sirs. in latter, 234, 252.
Marsh, Othniel Charles (detail)
1888Notice of a new fossil sirenian, from California.
Amer. Jour. Sci. Arts (3)35(205)(whole vol. no. 135): 94-96. 3 figs. Jan. 1888.
—This, the first scientific paper published on desmostylians, describes Desmostylus hesperus, n.gen.n.sp., from Alameda County, Calif., on the basis of isolated teeth and a lumbar vertebra deposited in the Yale Peabody Museum. It was believed to be Pliocene in age and related to Metaxytherium and Halicore. In fact it is Miocene in age, and according to Merriam (1911: 404) the type was actually collected in Contra Costa County.