Whitmore, Frank Clifford, Jr.

5 publications

Kellogg, Remington; Whitmore, Frank Clifford, Jr. (detail)

1957

Mammals. In: H. S. Ladd (ed.), Treatise on marine ecology and paleocology. Vol. 2. Paleoecology (x + 1077 pp.).
Mem. Geol. Soc. Amer. 67(2): 1021-1024.
—Discusses the paleoenvironments of several Miocene sirs.: Miosiren (Antwerp Basin, Belgium), oceanic coastline (1021); Metaxytherium (Calvert Fm., Maryland), large estuary; Hesperosiren (Hawthorn Fm., Florida), environment similar to present Atlantic coast of Florida (1022). Vol. 1 (Ecology, J.W. Hedgpeth, ed.; Mem. 67(1): viii + 1296) of this treatise contains an article on "Marine Mammals" by the same authors (1223-1226), with a brief paragraph summarizing Recent sir. distribution on p. 1223. This is not indexed here.

Gernant, Robert E.; Gibson, Thomas G.; Whitmore, Frank Clifford, Jr. (detail)
1971	Environmental history of Maryland Miocene. Maryland Geol. Surv. Guidebook No. 3: 1-58. —

Gard, Leonard Meade, Jr.; Lewis, G. E.; Whitmore, Frank Clifford, Jr. (detail)
1972	Steller's sea cow in Pleistocene interglacial beach deposits on Amchitka, Aleutian Islands. Geol. Soc. Amer. Bull. 83(3): 867-869. Mar. 1972. —Describes the circumstances of discovery of a partial skeleton of a juvenile Hydrodamalis at South Bight, Amchitka, and reviews other North Pacific records of Hydrodamalis and the Aleutian occurrence of Cornwallius.

Whitmore, Frank Clifford, Jr.; Gard, Leonard Meade, Jr. (detail)

1977

Steller's sea cow (Hydrodamalis gigas) of Late Pleistocene age from Amchitka, Aleutian Islands, Alaska.
U.S. Geol. Surv. Prof. Paper 1036: iii + 19. 5 tabs. Cover illus. + 10 figs. 8 pls.
—Describes a partial skeleton of an immature animal and other Hydrodamalis remains from a deposit at South Bight, Amchitka. Also includes many measurements and illustrations of Bering Island H. gigas specimens in the U.S. National Museum; a description of a supposed Hydrodamalis rib fragment from Kangiguksuk, northwestern Alaska (3, 15-16); and illustrations of the mounted Hydrodamalis skeleton at Stockholm (pl. 1). The cover illustration of a sea cow was first publ. in V.B. Scheffer (1973).

Whitmore, Frank Clifford, Jr. (detail)
1987	A delphinoid ear bone from the Dam Formation (Miocene) of Saudi Arabia. Bull. Brit. Mus. (Nat. Hist.), Geol. 41(4): 447-450. Fig. 53. —Mentions "fragmented ribs of sirenians" found at the type locality of the Burdigalian Dam Formation at Jabal Lidam, eastern Saudi Arabia (447).