A Study of Fossil Vertebrate Types in the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia: Taxonomic, Systematic, and Historical Perspectives |
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... Individual Defines a Type Specimen 297 Original Labels Supporting Type Status Revised Interpretation of Type Status Questionable Status as Type Material 304 304 304 298 Original Author's Intention Versus Literal Interpretation 299 ...
... Individual Defines a Type Specimen 297 Original Labels Supporting Type Status Revised Interpretation of Type Status Questionable Status as Type Material 304 304 304 298 Original Author's Intention Versus Literal Interpretation 299 ...
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... individuals or institutions . Only the historical collections , like that of Thomas Jefferson , remain segregated from the systematic collection . some of these collections contain type specimens ; most of the types , however , are ...
... individuals or institutions . Only the historical collections , like that of Thomas Jefferson , remain segregated from the systematic collection . some of these collections contain type specimens ; most of the types , however , are ...
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... individual speci- mens . Leidy ( 1858g : 89-90 ) described the process : " Dr. Leidy added that when he took the present oppor- tunity to point out the admirable quality of bees - wax as a means of mending fractured fossils , and of ...
... individual speci- mens . Leidy ( 1858g : 89-90 ) described the process : " Dr. Leidy added that when he took the present oppor- tunity to point out the admirable quality of bees - wax as a means of mending fractured fossils , and of ...
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... individual escaped or cast away presumably from aboard ship in North America ) . A systematically arranged list of taxa cited in this publication is pre- sented in Table 7. ( All tables appear at the end of this introduction to Part II ...
... individual escaped or cast away presumably from aboard ship in North America ) . A systematically arranged list of taxa cited in this publication is pre- sented in Table 7. ( All tables appear at the end of this introduction to Part II ...
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... individual . " This is an important distinction from a " specimen " , the latter taken to mean a single osteological element ( or set of elements ) . The concept of the individual is more appropriate , too , when additional parts of an ...
... individual . " This is an important distinction from a " specimen " , the latter taken to mean a single osteological element ( or set of elements ) . The concept of the individual is more appropriate , too , when additional parts of an ...
Contents
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MAMMALIA OF TERRESTRIAL HABITAT Excluding Cetacea | 163 |
MAMMALIA OF MARINE HABITAT Cetacea | 265 |
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ICHNOFOSSILIA | 287 |
GUIDELINES | 295 |
Adequate and Inadequate Descriptions | 297 |
The Individual Defines a Type Specimen | 298 |
Determination of Types Among Multiple Lots | 299 |
Mixed Lots | 300 |
Originally Available Specimens Constituting Type Material | 301 |
Determining the Extent of the Original Type Lot | 303 |
Revised Interpretation of Type Status Questionable Status as Type Material | 304 |
Interpretation of Lectotype Designations | 306 |
Identity of Holotype Obscured and Invalid Lectotypification | 307 |
Type Status Unaffected by Systematic Placement or Age | 308 |
Determination of Original Spelling and Place of Publication | 309 |
Invalid Neotype Designation Recovery of Holotype Following Designation of Neotype | 310 |
Correctable Errors Unjustified Emendation of Names | 311 |
Simultaneous Publication | 312 |
Valid Publication | 313 |
Methods of Citation | 314 |
UTILIZING THE LIBRARY AND THE CODEAN EXAMPLE | 318 |
SYSTEMATICS AND TAXONOMY IN A TYPE COLLECTION | 319 |
CONCLUSION | 321 |
LITERATURE CITED WITH CLASSIFIED LISTS OF TAXA FOR WHICH ANSP HOLDS TYPE SPECIMENS | 323 |
REGISTER OF ANSP SPECIMENS CITED IN THIS PUBLICATION | 383 |
INDEX | 403 |
Common terms and phrases
1856f Mammalia-terrestrial Academy of Natural American Philosophical Society ANSP label antiquus BIBLIOGRAPHICAL REFERENCES binomen BMNH Bock bone Bridger citation cited collection Cope County Cretaceous Dicotyles EARLIER REFERENCES Elasmosaurus Eocene Falconer & Cautley figs figured in pl Formation fossil fragment genus Geological Gillette gracilis Harlan Hayden haysii holotype holotype is figured indicated Jersey label reads Laelaps LeConte lectotype left mandibular ramus Leidy's lithographs lower jaw Lydekker Mammalia Mammalia-marine Mammalia-terrestrial mandibular ramus containing Mastodon maxilla Megalonyx Miocene molar Mosasaurus Museum Myliobatis Natural History Natural Sciences Niobrara River once been glued Oreodon Original binomen written original description original label ORIGINAL MATERIAL PARALECTOTYPE paratype photographs Pisces PLASTER CAST plate Platygonus Pleistocene Port Kennedy portion Proceedings REMARKS Reptilia right mandibular ramus River Sciences of Philadelphia skull Spamer & Daeschler species stratigraphic provenance SUBSEQUENT REFERENCES synonym synonymy SYNTYPE Tapirus teeth terrestrial text-fig tion tooth Trouessart type material type specimens upper vertebra
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