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                     *** ANSP SPECIAL PUBLICATION 16 ***

                    A STUDY OF FOSSIL VERTEBRATE TYPES IN
               THE ACADEMY OF NATURAL SCIENCES OF PHILADELPHIA

This is a unique study of the type specimens in the vertebrate paleontology
collection at the oldest natural science museum in North America.  The
Academy's 400+ types were described between 1822 and 1994.  Most are from the
beginnings of vertebrate paleontology in North America, including taxa
described by Richard Harlan, Joseph Leidy, and Edward Drinker Cope, to name
a few.

Entries include: The first North American dinosaurs, _Deinodon_, _Troodon_, 
_Trachodon_, and _Paleoscincus_, described by Leidy in 1856; _Hadrosaurus 
foulkii_ Leidy 1859; and _Dryptosaurus aquilunguis_ (Cope) 1866; the first
descriptions of White River badlands and Bridger Basin faunas; Pleistocene
taxa from Big Bone Lick, Kentucky; Port Kennedy Cave, Pennsylvania; Burnet
Cave, New Mexico; and early collections from the Atlantic Coastal Plain.

                THIS WORK IS MUCH MORE THAN A TYPE CATALOG.

Part 1 places the fossil material in historical context with an overview of
vertebrate paleontology at the Academy, collectors and localities.

Part 2 contains extenstively annotated entries describing type 
status, inventory, literature citations, and conservation information for each
lot.  This part is arranged by major systematic group: fishes, amphbians,
reptiles, birds, terrestrial mammals, marine mammals, and ichnofossils.

Part 3 documents the interpretive methods used in the study of sometimes-
problematic historical fossil material.  This publication will be useful for
researchers, curators, historians, librarians, and students.

434 pages, including 60-page bibliography and 32-page index.

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