Contributions to Canadian Palaeontology Volume 1, Pts. 1-5 (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated.1898 Excerpt: ... CONTRIBUTIONS TO CANADIAN PALEONTOLOGY VOLUME I. BY J. F. WHITEAVEs. APPENFIX 8. Revision of the nomenclature of some of the species described or enumerated in previous parts of this volume, and additional notes on others, necessitated by the progress of palaontological research. PART 1. Page 87. For "Hoploparia? Canadensis, Whiteaves"--and the single reference which follows, read: Linuparus Canadensis, Whiteaves. Hoploparia I Canadensis, Whiteaves. 1884. Trans. Royal Soc. Canada, vol. II., sect. 4, p. 238. Whiteaves. 1885. This volume, pt. 1, p. 87, pi. 11. Podocrates Canadensis, Whiteaves. 1896. Trans. Royal Soc. Canada, X. S., vol. I., sect. 4, p. 133. Linuparus atarus, Ortmann. 1897. Amer. Journ. Sc. and Arts, 4th Series, vol. IV., p. 290, and figs. 1, 2 and 3, facing p. 296. In 1890, Dr. Clemens Schluter, of Bonn, suggested to the writer that the specimen figured on Plate 11 of this volume is clearly a species of Podocrates, closely allied to if not identical with P. Dulmenensis, as stated in the Transactions of the Royal Society of Canada for 1895. Still more recently, on receipt of the American Journal of Science for October, 1897, containing a description, with illustrations, of Linuparus atavus, the writer was struck with the resemblance of the specimens figured under that name to Podocrates Canadensis. In a correspondence which ensued, Dr. Ortinann says that he is now fully convinced of the identity of Linuparus atavus with Podocrates Canadensis, and that the species should be referred to the genus Linuparus, which was proposed by Gray, in 1847, and based upon the recent Palinurus trigonus of De Haan. He also says that the genus Podocrates was first published by Ueinitz in 1850, and that it is founded on a good figure. List of the specimens of Cru...