Fwd: paleonet ANSP11297

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This was on the PaleoNet List, I thought someone out there maybe able to
help him out.  Oh yes email rothwell@amnh, if you know where it maybe at.

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From: tom rothwell <rothwell@amnh.org>
Subject: paleonet ANSP11297
Date: Wed, 14 Jul 1999 09:33:59 -0400 (EDT)

"I am attempting to locate a specimen: ANSP11297, the right ramus of the
lower jaw that was associated with the left ramus, the type specimen
Pseudaelurus intrepidus Leidy (Felidae:Carnivora). In1858, Joseph Leidy
described Felis intrepidus, new species,just a few months after the fossil
was collectected by Joseph Hayden. He interpreted the jaw at  a meeting of
the Philadelphia Academy of Natural Sciences and mentions: "a well preserved
specimen of the lower jaw", but describes and offers measurements of the
left ramus only. However, he apparently was referring to two rami of
this"lower jaw" at this time. The type specimen status, therefore, was
bestowed upon this left lower jaw ramus. This fossil, the left ramus, is
presently in the Smithsonian (USNM124).
        In 1869 Joseph Leidy described 28 new species, including the =46elis
intrepidus jaw with its new generic appellation: Pseudaelurus intrepidus. In
this work, though, Leidy described both a left and a right ramus: "On one
side of the specimen, the left ramus, is represented in figure 8, plate1. It
contains the sectorial molar, the two premolars in  advance, the canine
tooth, and the lateral incisor. The right ramus contains the same teeth with
the addition of the second incisor =8A" This  specimen, the right ramus
(ANSP11297) was examined at the Frick Lab here in
 New York on or about December of 1952, on loan from ANSP (Academy of
Natural Sciences) Philadelphia, PA . Our collection manager at the American
Museum of Natural History has some record of the specimen going back and
forth more than once. Alas, now it is missing. This paleonet email is an
"all points bulletin" attempt at tracking down this historical specimen.
Thanks in advance,

 tom rothwell
 american museum of natural history
 department of vertebrate paleontology
 central park west@79th
 new york,ny 10024
 phone: 212 496 3493
 =46ax: 212 769 5842
  
 
 tom rothwell
 
 
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Dept of Natural Sciences- Biology


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