Gibbes, Robert Wilson

2 publications

Gibbes, Robert Wilson (detail)
1849New species of fossil Myliobates, from the Eocene of South Carolina, and new fossils from the Cretaceous, Eocene, and Pliocene of South Carolina, Alabama, and Mississippi.
Proc. Amer. Assoc. Adv. Sci. 2: 193-194. Aug. 17, 1849.
—Includes in list of fossils from "Eocene of South Carolina and Mississippi" on p. 193: {"Rib and vertebrae of Manatus."} These were probably from South Carolina but probably not Eocene; see Gibbes (1850).
Gibbes, Robert Wilson (detail)
1850Remarks on the fossil Equus.
Proc. Amer. Assoc. Adv. Sci. 3: 66-68.
—States (67) that Equus and Manatus remains were found in situ in Eocene marl from the plantation of John A. Ramsay on the Ashley River, South Carolina; but F. S. Holmes pointed out (68-69) that the marl surface has holes filled with younger material and fossils.