Camp, Charles L.

2 publications

Camp, Charles L. (detail)
1940History of vertebrate paleontology on the West Coast.
Proc. 6th Pacif. Sci. Congr. (Berkeley, Stanford, & San Francisco, July 24-Aug. 12, 1939) 3: 643-646.
—P. 645: {"Dr. O. C. Marsh procured from him [Lorenzo G. Yates of Santa Barbara] the type tooth of Desmostylus - a sea-cow-like marine mammal whose relationships have only lately been worked out."}
Camp, Charles L. (detail)
1963Old Doctor Yates.
Jour. of the West 2(4): 377-400. 5 figs. Oct. 1963.
—Biographical sketch of Lorenzo G. Yates, including an account of the discovery of the first Desmostylus specimens in a boulder in the bed of Alameda Creek in 1869. Marsh's holotype, however, evidently came from a hill near Arroyo del Valle, 5-6 miles south of Livermore, and a mile or so south of Cresta Blanca Winery, Alameda County, Calif. Fig. 1 reproduces Yates' broadside (1877) describing the find (387-389).