Nordmann, Alexander von

4 publications

Nordmann, Alexander von (detail)
1860Palaeontologie Südrusslands. IV. Elephas, Mastodon, Dinotherium, Phoca, Manatus, Cetotherium, Balaena, Balenoptera und Delphinus.
Helsinki, H. C. Friis: 271-360. Pls. 18-28.
—Revs.: Bull. Soc. Nat. Moscou 33(3): 377-487?; J. J. Nöggerath, Westermanns Monatsh. 6: 48-50, 1859? Describes scapulae, ribs, and vertebrae of "Manatus maeoticus" from Bessarabia (328-333, pl. 25).
Nordmann, Alexander von (detail)
1861Zur Paläontologie Südrusslands. Notiz ueber eine Sendung fossiler Knochen aus den Steinbruechen um Kischinew in Bessarabien.
Bull. Soc. Nat. Moscou 34(1): 577-586. Pls. 11-12.
—Discusses scapulae, vertebrae, ribs, and sterna of "Manatus maeoticus" (581-582), and illustrates a scapula (pl. 11). The remains are Late Miocene (Sarmatian) in age.
Nordmann, Alexander von (detail)
1862aBeiträge zur Kenntniss des Knochen-baues der Rhytina Stelleri.
Acta Soc. Sci. Fennicae 7: 1-33. Pls. 1-5.
—?Rev.: Arch. Naturgesch. 28: 153? Describes in detail the skeleton of an immature Steller's sea cow in the Helsinki museum. This skeleton was collected by a Finnish expedition on Bering Island, and appears to be genuinely associated, unlike all the other Hydrodamalis skeletons in museums, which are composite. See also P.J. Van Beneden (1862a).
Nordmann, Alexander von (detail)
1862bRhytina stelleri und deren vollständiges Skelet.
Sitzb. Ges. Naturf. Freunde Berlin, July 1862: 1.
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