Merriam, John C.

3 publications

Merriam, John C. (detail)
1906On the occurrence of Desmostylus, Marsh.
Science 24(605): 151-152.
—Discusses earlier finds, and two new ones in San Luis Obispo and Orange Counties, California. Comments on the paleoecology of Desmostylus and concludes that it was aquatic and hence probably a sir. rather than a proboscidean.
Merriam, John C. (detail)
1911Notes on the genus Desmostylus Marsh.
Bull. Dept. Geol. Univ. California 6(18): 403-412. 11 figs. Nov. 1, 1911.
—Summarizes the knowledge of Desmostylus to date; concludes that it is Miocene in age and a sir., though possibly of a new family. States (404) that the type locality of the genus is in Contra Costa County, California, not Alameda Co. as stated by Marsh (1888).
Merriam, John C. (detail)
1915Tertiary vertebrate faunas of the North Coalinga region of California. A contribution to the study of palaeontologic correlation in the Great Basin and Pacific Coast provinces.
Trans. Amer. Philos. Soc. (2)22: 191-234. 49 figs.
—Desmostylians, 196, 208.