Archive image from page 244 of Dinocerata a monograph of Dinocerata : a monograph of an extinct order of gigantic mammals dinoceratamonogr00mars Year: 1886 SYNOPSIS. 221 ridge. Tlie parietal protuberances were robust, and broadly oval in section near the top, and are connected by a low transverse ridge across the top of the skull. All these protuberances in this specimen are smooth, and regularly rounded. The type specimen (number 1231) upon which this species is based was collected by Mr. J. W. Chew, in 1874, two miles from Big Bone Buttes, Wyoming. The remains of this specimen consist of
Archive image from page 244 of Dinocerata a monograph of Dinocerata : a monograph of an extinct order of gigantic mammals dinoceratamonogr00mars Year: 1886 SYNOPSIS. 221 ridge. Tlie parietal protuberances were robust, and broadly oval in section near the top, and are connected by a low transverse ridge across the top of the skull. All these protuberances in this specimen are smooth, and regularly rounded. The type specimen (number 1231) upon which this species is based was collected by Mr. J. W. Chew, in 1874, two miles from Big Bone Buttes, Wyoming. The remains of this specimen consist of a skull, etc. The geological horizon of this species is in the Dinoceras beds of the Middle Eocene. The known remains of this species are preserved in Yale College Museum. Uiiitatherium Leidianum, Osborn, Scott, and Speir. Woodcut: 198, below. Fig. 198. Figure 198.—Skull of Uintatherium Leidianum (after 0>'bom, Scott, aud Speir); oblique side view. About cue-eighth natural size. This figure was photographed on wood from the original heliotype plate, cited below. Osborn, Scott, and Speir, Palseontological Report, pp. 63-80, Plates VI-VIII, 1878. Osborn, Memoir upon Loxolophodon and Uintatherium, pp. 18, 19, 22-24, Plate II, 1881. Cope, American Naturalist, Vol. XVIII, p. 1117, tig. 10, November, 1884. The type specimen of this species was collected in 1877, near Dry Creek, in Wyoming.
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