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Les animaux préhistoriques- L'extraordinaire histoire de la vie avant l'homme
Gründ. 1976. In-4. Cartonné. Bon état, Coins frottés, Dos fané, Intérieur acceptable. 96 pages. Nombreuses illustrations et photos en couleurs et en noir et blanc, in et hors texte, dont contre-plats. Rares rousseurs.. . . . Classification Dewey : 560-Paléontologie. Paléozoologie
Classification Dewey : 560-Paléontologie. Paléozoologie
On the Dicynodont Reptilia, with a Description of some Fossil Remains brought by H.R.H. Prince Alfred from South Africa, November 1860. Received January 23, - Read February 20, 1862.
(London, Taylor and Francis, 1862). 4to. No wrappers as extracted from ""Philosophical Transactions"" 1862 - Vol. 152 - Part I. Pp. 455-467 a. 7 lithographed plates. The plates with some soiling, dampstains and brownspots. Text fine and clean.
First printing of Owens importentr paper describing a genus of Dicynodonts that lived during the late Permian and Jurrasic periods. Dicynodonts meaning ""two dog teeth"" were pigike herbivorous with two large tusks in the upper jaw.
On the vertebral Characters of the Order Pterosauria, as exemplified in the Genera Pterodactylus (Cuvier) and Dimorphodon (Owen). Received February 23, - Read March 24, 1859.
(London, Taylor and Francis, 1859). 4to. No wrappers as extracted from ""Philosophical Transactions"" 1859 - Vol. 149 - Part I. Pp. 161-169 a. 1 lithographed plate.
First printing. Owen gives a more detailled description of Dimorphodon which he named in the same year as the offered paper. Dimorphodon was a genus of medium-sized pterosaur from the early Jurassic Period. It was named by Owen in 1859 (in a paper preceeding the offered paper).
"OWEN, RICHARD. - COINING THE NAME ""MEGALANIA PRISCA"" - THE GIANT EXTINCT GOANNA.
Reference : 42996
(1859)
Description of some Remains of a Gigantic Land-Lizard (Megalania prisca, Owen). Received May 13, - Read June 17, 1858.
(London, Taylor and Francis, 1859). 4to. No wrappers as extracted from ""Philosophical Transactions"" 1859 - Vol. 149 - Part I. Pp. 43-48 a. 2 lithographed plates.
First printing of this paper in which Owen named Magalania prisca, Owen.Megalania (""great roamer"")) is a giant extinct goanna or monitor lizard. It was part of a megafaunal assemblage that inhabited southern Australia during the Pleistocene, and appears to have disappeared around 40,000 years ago.The first aboriginal settlers of Australia may have encountered living Megalania.The name Megalania prisca was coined by Sir Richard Owen to mean ""Ancient Great Roamer"""" the name was intended to ""reference to the terrestrial nature of the great Saurian"".
Description of some Species of the extinct Genus Nesodon, with remarks on the primary Group (Toxodontia) of Hoofed Quadrupeds, to which that Genus is referable.
(London, Richard Taylor and William Francis, 1853) 4to. No wrappers as extracted from ""Philosophical Transactions"" 1853, Vol. 143 - Part I. Pp. 291-310 and 4 lithographed plates.
First appearance of this importent paper, in which Owen established a new genus, Nesodons on the basis of the fossils found by B.J. Sulivan in the Tertiary beds of Patagonia in 1845.
Description of some Species of the extinct Genus Nesodon, with remarks on the primary Group (Toxodontia) of Hoofed Quadrupeds, to which that Genus is referable.
(London, Richard Taylor and William Francis, 1853) 4to. No wrappers as extracted from ""Philosophical Transactions"" 1853, Vol. 143 - Part I. Pp. 291-310 and 4 lithographed plates. A dampstain to lower right corners of plates.
First appearance of this importent paper, in which Owen established a new genus, Nesodons on the basis of the fossils found by B.J. Sulivan in the Tertiary beds of Patagonia in 1845.
On the Fossil Mammals of Australia. - Part VII. Genus Phascolomys: species exceeding the existing ones in size.
(London, Taylor and Francis, 1873). 4to. No wrappers as extracted from ""Philosophical Transactions"", 1872. Vol. 162. Pp. 241-258 a. 9 lithographed plates. Plates with a few light brownspots. Clean and fine.
First appearance of a classical paper in which Owen describes the finds of the remains of ""extinct Wombats of markedly superior size to any now living"" and I shall describe the fossils as the species they represent progressively predominate in bulk.""
On the Fossil Mammals of Australia. - Part IX. Family Macropodidae" Genera Macropus, Pachysiagon, Leptosiagon, Procoptodon, and Palorchestes. Received April 19, - Read June 19, 1873.
(London, Taylor and Francis, 1874). 4to. No wrappers as extracted from ""Philosophical Transactions"", 1874. Vol. 164 - Part II. Pp. 783-803 a. 8 lithographed plates. Fine and clean.
First appearance of a classical paper in which Owen describes the finds of the remains of some of the extinct Kangaroos - Macropodidae, meaning ""large foot"".
On the Fossil Mammals of Australia. - Part VIII. Family Macropodidae: Genera Macropus, Osphranter, Phascolagus, Sthenurus and Protemnoden. Received November 11, 1872, - Read January 23, 1873.
(London, Taylor and Francis, 1874). 4to. No wrappers as extracted from ""Philosophical Transactions"", 1874. Vol. 164. Pp. 245-287 a. 8 lithographed plates. Clean and fine.
First appearance of a classical paper in which Owen describes the finds of the remains of the extinct Kangaroos. ""The present communication gives part of the researches into the forms of those saltatory herbivorous Marsupials which have passed away, or, at least, are known to naturalists only by their fossil remains.""(Owen).
Description of Fossil Remains of Thwo Species of a Megalanian Genus (Meiolania) from ""Lord Howe's Island,"" received March 15, - Read April 1, 1886.
(London, Harrison and Sons, 1888). 4to. No wrappers as extracted from ""Philosophical Transactions"" 1886 - Vol. 177 - Part II. Pp. 471-480 a. 4 lithographed plates. Clean and fine.
First appearance of a classical paper in which Owen describes the two new finds of dinosaurs from Lord Howe's Island, New South Wales. They belongs to the Megalania, a word coined by Owen himself.Megalania (Great roamer) is a giant extinct goanna or monitor lizard.It was part of a megafaunal assemblage that inhibited Southern Australia during the Pleistocene, and appears to have disappeared around 40.ooo years ago. The first aboriginal settlers of Australia may have encountered living Megalania.
On Parts of the Skeleton of Meiolania platyceps (Ow.). Received March 29, - Read April 21, 1887.
(London, Harrison and Sons, 1889). 4to. No wrappers as extracted from ""Philosophical Transactions"", 1888, Vol. 179 - Series B. Pp. 181-191 a. 7 lithographed plates.
First appearance of a classical paper in which Owen describes a series of remains, in better condition, than the bones from Lord Howe's Island, which Owen described in 1886 and named Meiolania platyceps. The remains belongs to Horned Turtles, and not to a giant lizard, Meiolania (""Small roamer"") is an extinct genus of cryptodire turtle from the Oligocene to Holocene, with the last relic populations at New Caledonia which survived until 2,000 years ago.The animal was rather large, measuring 2.5 metres (8.2 ft) in length, making it the second-largest known nonmarine turtle or tortoise, surpassed only by Colossochelys atlas from Asia, which lived in the Pleistocene. It lived in Australia and New Caledonia. Remains have also been found on the island of Efate in Vanuatu, associated with settlements from the Lapita culture.
Contribution à la connaissance du genre Adelophthalmus Jordan et Meyer 1854.
1956 98 p., 156 figs, 24 pls, 4to, paperbound.
On some Lower Carboniferous brachiopods from central Hunan, China.
1939 53 p., 8 figs, 9 pls, paperbound. Stamp and perforation stamp on front cover. Published in: Journal of the Shanghai Sci. Inst.
Die Tierfährten in dem Rotliegenden ""Deutschlands"".
Halle, E. Karras, 1908. Large 4to. (168) pp. 35 plates and 36 textillustrations.
(From Nova Acta Leopoldina, Bd. 89 Nr. 2).
Das Oberdevon des Bergischen Landes.
1913 356 p., 4 figs, 6 (1 col.) pls, 1 folded col. map, hcloth with original cover laid on. Two plates depict molluscs, two other Brachiopods. Published in: Abhandlungen Königlich Preussischen Gelogische Landesanstalt.
Die Brachiopoden des deutschen Unterkarbons. 2. Teil: Die Productinae und Productus-ähnlichen Chonetinae.
1931 440 p., 14 figs, 41 pls, paperbound (covers missing). Published in: Abhandlungen der Preußischen Geologischen Landesanstalt.
Monographie des Thécidées (Brachiopodes).
1970 349 p., 16 pls, 4to, paperbounds. Unopened. Mém. Soc. Géol. France.
LE MONDE MERVEILLEUX DES FOSSILES.
MINERVA / FRANCE LOISIRS. NON DATE. In-4. Relié. Bon état, Couv. convenable, Dos satisfaisant, Intérieur frais. Non paginé, environ 80 pages - nombreuses photos en couleurs dans et hors - étiquette collée sur le 1er plat de la jaquette.. Avec Jaquette. . . Classification Dewey : 560-Paléontologie. Paléozoologie
Photographies de Nelly Bariand. Classification Dewey : 560-Paléontologie. Paléozoologie
Paleontologia y Evolución. Journal published by Institut Paleontològic Dr M. Crusafont.
1971-1997 Vols. 2, 8-9, 12-22, 24-25, 28-31. First three volumes cloth, remainder paperbound as issued. Collection of 20 volumes of this journal.
Bulletins of American Paleontology. Volume 24.
1938-1939 394 p., 29 plates, new blue cloth, gilt title on the spine. The scarce volume 24 with papers on fossil molluscs by Palmer (Nomenclatorial notes on Eocene Mollusca), Ingram (Notes on Cypraea heilprini and C. chilona with new species from the Pliocene of Costa Rica & New fossil Cypraeidae from the Miocene of the Dominican Republic and Panama) and Conrad (Reprint of Conrad’s Jackson Eocene fossils) and a larger (218 p., 14 pls) paper by Caster mainly on Brachiopods (A Devonian Fauna from Colombia). A good, clean and well bound copy, complete with the index.
The Rudistids of southern Mexico.
1928 137 p., 8 figs, 18 pls, paperbound (back taped). Ex library Dr. Sohl (with his name written on front cover).
The Rudistids of southern Mexico.
1928 137 p., 8 figs, 18 pls, cloth (crudely bound, front cover laid on). Ex library Dr. Sohl (with his name written on front cover).
Paleochristian art in Spain. 4 language edition: Spanish / English / français / Deutsch.
New York, Tudor, 1969, in-4to, 378 p., richement illustrée, clothbound, jackett.
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Paläontologische Zeitschrift.
1956-1996 Vols 30-70. In issues. Missing issues 33(1-2), 37(1-2), 47(1-2), 55(3-4), 61(3-4) & 63(3-4).
