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RE: Apatodon in the Bone Wars
The best possible article I could find is: Proc. U.S. Nat. Museum, XXXV', pp.
351-66.
Article is concentrated upon the comparison of the mounted carnivorous dinosaur
in the American Museum of Natural History with that of Marsh's restoration of
Allosaurus.
---- Mickey Mortimer <mickey_mortimer111@msn.com> wrote:
> Thank you everyone! That was exactly what I needed. Apatodon is interesting
> because after 1890, basically all of its proposed relationships are
> ultimately based on a misunderstanding of one person's classification
> notation. I'll be blogging on that soon. Since it's lost, these early 1800s
> references are the only real information we have.
>
> Speaking of which, if anyone knows of a rumored paper from around 1900 that
> says Marsh confused a mammal/pig jaw with an Allosaurus neural spine, that
> would be the Holy Grail so to speak. So far the only original references to
> Apatodon I've found are Baur (1890) and now this Meyer (1890) newspaper
> article, both of which merely say it was dinosaurian, not specifically
> Allosaurus (Olshevsky listed it as being the latter in 1991 though). Thanks
> as always!
>
> Mickey Mortimer
>
> ----------------------------------------
> > Date: Tue, 10 Feb 2015 14:00:43 -0800
> > From: bcreisler@gmail.com
> > To: VRTPALEO@usc.edu; dinosaur@usc.edu
> > Subject: Re: Apatodon in the Bone Wars
> >
> > Ben Creisler
> > bcreisler@gmail.com
> >
> >
> > Many thanks! I found one of the them on a quick search earlier but
> > didn't have time to download and check to find the other page. So for
> > people whose internet connection is not that great (my situation sort
> > of) and can't get the pages to open online, the pdfs to download with
> > a right click would be:
> >
> >
> > http://fultonhistory.com/my%20photo%20albums/All%20Newspapers/New%20York%20NY%20Herald/New%20York%20NY%20Herald%201890/index2.html
> >
> > Meyer's letter:
> >
> > New York NY Herald 1890 - 0446
> >
> >
> >
> > Snarky editorial comment:
> >
> > New York NY Herald 1890 - 0459
> >
> > On Tue, Feb 10, 2015 at 12:52 PM, Mary Kirkaldy <mkirkaldy@gmail.com> wrote:
> >> If no one has replied yet, the articles are in pdfs 446 and 459.
> >> "Some More Nuts for Marsh to Crack" and "The War of the Professors".
> >>
> >> http://fultonhistory.com/Newspaper%2014/New%20York%20NY%20Herald/New%20York%20NY%20Herald%201890/New%20York%20NY%20Herald%201890%20-%200446.pdf
> >>
> >> http://fultonhistory.com/Newspaper%2014/New
> ork%20NY%20Herald%201890/New%20York%20NY%20Herald%201890%20-%200459.pdf
> >>
> >> Mary Kirkaldy
> >> --
> >>
> >> On Tue, Feb 10, 2015 at 11:51 AM, Ben Creisler <bcreisler@gmail.com> wrote:
> >>> Ben Creisler
> >>> bcreisler@gmail.com
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> Would you happen to know the exact page number in the January 26, 1890
> >>> issue Meyer's letter appeared on?.
> >>>
> >>> There is a pdf archive of the New York Herald on line by individual
> >>> page, but it's a nightmare to try to navigate. I also found that the
> >>> pages won't display online, but I can download a single page by
> >>> right-clicking and using "save as". The January 26, 1890 issue starts
> >>> at New York NY Herald 1890 - 0421 and then goes page by page. Oddly,
> >>> the issue starts with advertising, not news content.
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> The main folder for 1890 can be found here
> >>>
> >>> http://fultonhistory.com/my%20photo%20albums/All%20Newspapers/New%20York%20NY%20Herald/New%20York%20NY%20Herald%201890/index.html
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> If someone has the exact page number for the letter I may be able to
> >>> get the link.
> >>>
> >>> The rest of the letters for the Marsh-Cope feud are somewhere in the
> >>> 1890 archive as well, but without exact page numbers and a little
> >>> math, it's a real mess.
> >>>
> >>> On Tue, Feb 10, 2015 at 8:05 AM, Brinkman, Daniel
> >>> <daniel.brinkman@yale.edu> wrote:
> >>>> Hi Mickey et al,
> >>>>
> >>>> It was Otto Meyer's January 26, 1890 letter to the New York Herald,
> >>>> which turned out to be the paper's final story about the fossil feud.
> >>>>
> >>>> Dan
> >>>>
> >>>> Daniel L. Brinkman
> >>>> Museum Assistant II
> >>>> Division of Vertebrate Paleontology
> >>>> Yale Peabody Museum of Natural History
> >>>> 170 Whitney Avenue
> >>>> P.O. Box 208118
> >>>> New Haven, CT 06520-8118
> >>>> E-mail: daniel.brinkman@yale.edu
> >>>> Telephone: (203) 432-3760
> >>>> Fax: (203) 432-9816
> >>>>
> >>>> -----Original Message-----
> >>>> From: owner-VRTPALEO@usc.edu [mailto:owner-VRTPALEO@usc.edu] On Behalf
> >>>> Of Mickey Mortimer
> >>>> Sent: Monday, February 09, 2015 6:34 PM
> >>>> To: dinosaur@usc.edu; "vrtpaleo@usc.edu"@listpr
> >>>> Subject: Apatodon in the Bone Wars
> >>>>
> >>>> Hi everyone. I've hit a roadblock researching Apatodon and was hoping
> >>>> someone could help. We all know Baur (1890) said he looked at the
> >>>> supposed mammal-like jaw of Apatodon and determined it was part of a
> >>>> dinosaur vertebra. But there's another similar story in Shor's 1974 book
> >>>> "The fossil feud between E. D. Cope and O. C. Marsh". According to
> >>>> Google Books' preview, on page 213, it's written-
> >>>>
> >>>> "Professor Marsh has published in the American Journal of Science,
> >>>> September, 1877, the description of a very remarkable new mammal,
> >>>> Apatodon mirus. I have seen the type specimen, and consider it, in the
> >>>> same way as other assistants of Professor Marsh do, not as the jaw of a
> >>>> mammal, but as a piece of a vertebrae [sic] of a Dinosaur. Professor
> >>>> Marsh is apparently of the same opinion, for in his "list of genera,"
> >>>> printed as manuscript, Apatodon is enumerated as Dinosaur. The question
> >>>> is only Why has Professor Marsh not published corrections to his
> >>>> previous statements? and has he recognized himself the true nature of
> >>>> the fossil, or has it been pointed out to him? One of his assistants has
> >>>> made to me, and in..."
> >>>>
> >>>> ... after an account of Marsh hiding Laopteryx from this person because
> >>>> they realized it wasn't a bird. But because of Google Books' limited
> >>>> preview function, I can't determine who wrote this or what document it's
> >>>> quoting. I suspect it might be Otto Meyer, but would appreciate it if
> >>>> anyone had the book and could check. Thanks for any help.
> >>>>
> >>>> Mickey Mortimer
> >>>>
> >>>> Reference- Shor, 1974. The fossil feud between E. D. Cope and O. C.
> >>>> Marsh. Exposition Press. 340 pp.
> >>>>
>
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