PREVIOUSLY UNFIGURED TYPE SPECIMENS OF FOSSIL FISH, REPTILES, AND MAMMALS IN THE ACADEMY OF NATURAL-SCIENCES OF PHILADELPHIA

Citation
Ee. Spamer et E. Daeschler, PREVIOUSLY UNFIGURED TYPE SPECIMENS OF FOSSIL FISH, REPTILES, AND MAMMALS IN THE ACADEMY OF NATURAL-SCIENCES OF PHILADELPHIA, Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, 146, 1995, pp. 429-458
Citations number
94
Categorie Soggetti
Multidisciplinary Sciences
ISSN journal
00973157
Volume
146
Year of publication
1995
Pages
429 - 458
Database
ISI
SICI code
0097-3157(1995)146:<429:PUTSOF>2.0.ZU;2-F
Abstract
The Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia holds the type specime ns of 400 species-level taxa of fossil vertebrates. Among them are 56 taxa whose types have never been figured, or have been incompletely fi gured. There are also plaster casts of two species, the original types of which (not owned by the Academy) were never figured and have been lost. This paper provides photographic illustrations of the unfigured types and a few previously figured ones for which there are new data t o convey to the scientific community.