The zoology of the voyage of H. M. S. Beagle vol. 1, edited by Charles Darwin

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Author

Owen, Richard, 1804-1892

Title

The zoology of the voyage of H.M.S. Beagle [vol. 1 of 5] : Fossil mammalia

Original Publication

United Kingdom: Smith, Elder & Co,1839,copyright 1840,copyright 1841,copyright 1843.

Credits

Richard Tonsing and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by Biodiversity Heritage Library.)

Language

English

LoC Class

QL: Science: Zoology

Subject

Paleontology -- South America

Category

Text

Project Gutenberg

eBook-No. 68925

Release Date

September 6, 2022

Copyright

Public domain in the USA.

Contents

1. 1.THE ZOOLOGY OF THE VOYAGE OF H. M. S. BEAGLE, UNDER THE COMMAND OF CAPTAIN FITZROY, R.N., DURING THE YEARS 1832 TO 1836. PUBLISHED WITH THE APPROVAL OF THE LORDS COMMISSIONERS OF HER MAJESTY’S TREASURY .
2. 2.CONTENTS.
3. 3.LIST OF PLATES.
4. 4.PREFACE.
5. 5.GEOLOGICAL INTRODUCTION.
6. 6.FOSSIL MAMMALIA.
7. 7.A DESCRIPTION OF THE CRANIUM OF TOXODON PLATENSIS; A gigantic extinct mammiferous animal, referrible to the Order Pachydermata, but with affinities to the Rodentia, Edentata, and Herbivorous Cetacea .
8. 8.DESCRIPTION OF FRAGMENTS OF A LOWER JAW AND TEETH OF A TOXODON.
9. 9.DESCRIPTION OF PARTS OF THE SKELETON OF MACRAUCHENIA PATACHONICA; A large extinct Mammiferous Animal, referrible to the Order Pachydermata; but with affinities to the Ruminantia, and especially to the Camelidæ .
10. 10.DESCRIPTION OF A FRAGMENT OF A CRANIUM OF AN EXTINCT MAMMAL, INDICATIVE OF A NEW GENUS OF EDENTATA, AND FOR WHICH IS PROPOSED THE NAME OF GLOSSOTHERIUM.
11. 11.DESCRIPTION OF A MUTILATED LOWER JAW AND TEETH, ON WHICH IS FOUNDED A SUBGENUS OF MEGATHERIOID EDENTATA, UNDER THE NAME OF MYLODON.
12. 12.DESCRIPTION OF A CONSIDERABLE PART OF THE SKELETON OF A LARGE EDENTATE MAMMAL, ALLIED TO THE MEGATHERIUM AND ORYCTEROPUS, AND FOR WHICH IS PROPOSED THE NAME OF SCELIDOTHERIUM [44] LEPTOCEPHALUM. — Vertebral Column. — Bones of the Extremities.
13. 13.DESCRIPTION OF A MUTILATED LOWER JAW OF THE MEGALONYX JEFFERSONII.
14. 14.DESCRIPTION OF A FRAGMENT OF THE SKULL AND OF THE TEETH OF THE MEGATHERIUM CUVIERI.
15. 15.DESCRIPTION OF FRAGMENTS OF BONES, AND OF OSSEOUS TESSELATED DERMAL COVERING OF LARGE EDENTATA.
16. 16.NOTICE OF FRAGMENTS OF MOLAR TEETH OF A MASTODON.
17. 17.NOTICE OF THE REMAINS OF A SPECIES OF EQUUS,
18. 18.DESCRIPTION OF REMAINS OF RODENTIA, INCLUDING THE JAWS AND TEETH OF AN EXTINCT SPECIES OF CTENOMYS.

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