Hay, Oliver Perry

9 publications

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1899	A census of the fossil Vertebrata of North America. Science (2)10: 681-684. —Sirs., 682.

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1902	Bibliography and catalogue of the fossil Vertebrata of North America. Bull. U.S. Geol. Surv. 179: 1-868. —Creates the new combinations Trichechus antiquus (Leidy) (583) and T. inornatus (Leidy) (584).

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1915

A contribution to the knowledge of the extinct sirenian Desmostylus hesperus Marsh.
Proc. U.S. Natl. Mus. 49(2113): 381-397. Pls. 56-58.
—Abstrs.: Nature (London) 96: 152?; Geol. Mag. (6)2: 567? Recounts the history of discovery of Desmostylus; discusses it and compares it with various sirs.; proposes the Family Desmostylidae (a name actually coined previously by Osborn, 1905a) and gives the name Desmostylus watasei to the specimen of Yoshiwara and Iwasaki (1902).

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1919	Description of some mammalian and fish remains from Florida of probably Pleistocene age. Proc. U.S. Natl. Mus. 56(2291): 103-112. Pls. 26-28. —Describes a mandible of uncertain provenance (USNM 2522) and refers it to "Trichechus antiquus Leidy?" (109-110, pl. 26). Domning (1982b: 604-605) interpreted this specimen as a subrecent T. manatus.

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1922a

Description of a new fossil sea cow from Florida, Metaxytherium floridanum.
Proc. U.S. Natl. Mus. 61(17)(2438): 1-4. 1 pl.
—Bases the new species on a maxilla with third molar from a phosphate mine at Mulberry, Florida, supposing it to be of Late Oligocene age (it is probably late Middle Miocene; Domning, 1988). An isolated lower tooth from Palma Sola, Florida, is provisionally referred to the species.

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1922b	Note on Desmostylus hesperus. Acta Zoologica (Stockholm) 3: 392-393. —In O. Abel (1922).

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1923a

Characters of sundry fossil vertebrates.
Pan-American Geologist 39: 101-120. Figs. 4-5. Pls. 7-9. March 1923.
—In section III ("Desmostylus: its species and relationships"), criticizes Hannibal's erection of the species D. cymatias; proposes the names D. californicus and Cornwallius; refutes Abel's theory of multituberculate affinities for desmostylians; and proposes the suborders Desmostyliformes and Trichechiformes within the Sirenia (105-109).

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1923b	The Pleistocene of North America and its vertebrated animals from the states east of the Mississippi River and from the Canadian provinces east of longitude 95°. Publ. Carnegie Inst. Washington No. 322: vii + 499. 25 figs. 41 maps. —Sirs., 379.

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1924	Notes on the osteology and dentition of the genera Desmostylus and Cornwallius. Proc. U.S. Natl. Mus. 65(8)(2521): 1-8. 2 figs. 2 pls. —Suggests that the type of Cornwallius may be a milk tooth of Desmostylus; discusses and compares various other specimens.