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IV.—Principal Characters of American Cretaceous Pterodactyls

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 May 2009

O. C. Marsh
O. C. Marsh
Affiliation:
Yale College, Newhaven, Conn., U.S.A.
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The first remains of Pterodactyls discovered in this country were found by the writer, in the autumn of 1870, near the Smoky Hill River, in Western Kansas. These belonged to a gigantic species, which was described by the writer in 1871, and is now known as Pteranodon occidentalis. The geological horizon of these fossils was in the Middle Cretaceous, in the same deposits that contain the Odontornithes, or Birds with teeth. In the following year, additional specimens were secured by the writer in the same region, and referred to two new species of the same genus

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Geological Magazine , Volume 1 , Issue 8 , August 1884 , pp. 345 - 348
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1884

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page 345 note 1 From the Amercian Journal of Science, vol. xxvii. May, 1884.

page 345 note 2 op. cit. vol. i. p. 472, 06, 1871; vol. iii. p. 241, April, 1872, and p. 374, May, 1872.Google Scholar

page 345 note 3 op. cit. p. 507, vol. xi. 06, 1876; p. 479, vol. xii. Dec. 1876, and vol. xxi. p. 342, April, 1881. See also vol. xxiii. p. 251, April, 1882.Google Scholar