Hanna, George Dallas

3 publications

Hanna, George Dallas (detail)
1925Miocene marine vertebrates in Kern County, California.
Science (2)61(1568): 71-72. Jan. 16, 1925.
—P. 72: {"These [bones from Sharktooth Hill] are of many groups of vertebrates, sirenians and perhaps walruses being represented in addition to those mentioned above."} These "sirenians" were certainly desmostylians.
Hanna, George Dallas (detail)
1930Geology of Shark-tooth Hill, Kern County, California.
Proc. Calif. Acad. Sci. (4)19(7): 65-83. 3 figs. July 15, 1930.
—P. 70: {"These [specimens from Sharktooth Hill] consisted of bones of dophins [sic], porpoises, seals, sea lions, whales and sea cows."} The "sea cows" in this statement (based on a letter of Mr. Charles Morrice, Dec. 10, 1929) were Desmostylus.
Hanna, George Dallas (detail)
1933Desmostylus tooth dredged in Monterey Bay. [Abstr.]
Bull. Geol. Soc. Amer. 43: 291.
—P. 291: {{"Messrs. Allyn G. Smith, John L. Nicholson and the writer did some dredging in Monterey Bay during the summer of 1930 and among other interesting objects obtained there was found a fragment of a cone of a Desmostylus tooth. The significance of the occurrence at this locality is discussed."}}