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x Yates, Lorenzo Gordin
  1877
The marine monster of Alameda County.
Pacific School & Home Jour. 1(3): 77-79. May 1877.
–The earliest published description of "a new undescribed cetacean" (Desmostylus), supposedly from Alameda County, California (but see J. C. Merriam, 1911). Later that year this article was partly reprinted in the Alameda County Independent and as a broadside; a facsimile of the latter is reproduced in C. L. Camp (1963: 388).

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xDv1877Yates, L.G. (Desmostylus; Alameda Co.; first published description; 77-79.)
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xDv1877Yates, L.G. (Alameda Co., California; first published description; 78-79.)