Matson, George Charlton

3 publications

Matson, George Charlton; Clapp, F. G. (detail)
1909A preliminary report of the geology of Florida, with special reference to the stratigraphy.
Florida Geol. Surv. Rept. 2: 25-173. 2 figs. 8 pls.
—Sirs., 136.
Matson, George Charlton; Sanford, Samuel (detail)
1913Geology and ground waters of Florida.
U.S. Geol. Surv. Water-Supply Paper 319: 1-445. 7 figs. 17 pls.
—P. 146: {"The Bone Valley gravel, however, contains many fossils which are contemporaneous with the deposition of the beds, among them being teeth of horses, rhinoceroses, mammoths, sharks, and manatees."} "Manatees" here refers to Miocene dugongids, principally Metaxytherium floridanum.
Matson, George Charlton (detail)
1915The phosphate deposits of Florida.
U.S. Geol. Surv. Bull. 604: 1-101. Tabs. 2 figs. 17 pls.
—Illustrates the "jawbone of a manatee" (pl. 12) that was later made the holotype of Metaxytherium floridanum Hay, 1922; from the Bone Valley Formation.