Identifier: sixthannualrepor00geol (find matches)
Title: Sixth annual report of the United States geological survey of the Territories, embracing portions of Montana, Idaho, Wyoming, and Utah : being a report of progress of the explorations for the year 1872
Year: 1873 (1870s)
Authors: Geological and Geographical Survey of the Territories (U.S.) Hayden, F. V. (Ferdinand Vandeveer), 1829-1887
Subjects: Botany Zoology Meteorology
Publisher: Washington : G.P.O.
Contributing Library: Smithsonian Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: Biodiversity Heritage Library

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including zygomatic arches, (greatest) 320 Length of nasal bones to ridge between horn-cores , 410 Length of nasal bones to frontal suture 540 Length of zygomatic fossa above 230 Length from angle uares to end shovel 205 Length from angle nares to end premasillary 155 Length from end premaxillary to basis of canine 120 Length from end premaxillary to basis of P. M. 1 ^ 276 Length of molar series 185 Length of palate 450 Length of pterygo-palatine crest 200 Length of sphenoid axis 185 Length of basioccipital, (with condyles) 128 Width between tips premaxillaries 070 Width at canine alveoli , 185 Width between canine alveoli 080 ^^idth at diastema 050 Width between last molars 070 Width between pterygo-palatine crests 065 Width of post-glenoid process 095 Width between post-glenoid processes 095 Width basioccipital at front 073 Width basioccipital at condyles 200 Width of space for tympanic chamber 034 Length tusk on curve, (12.7 inches) 320 )t0l04iciil^jiti3r0 lif ite fftttfc)iiriip0.
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LOXOLOPHODON CORNUTUS COPE Vii iial .si/,(>. :.- lanclairt..!.. lith.il^ila GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF THE TERRITORIES. 571 M. Diameter at middle do. (antero-posterior) , 050 Diameter at base do. (antero-posterior) 063 Diameter at middle do. (traosverse) 030 Diameter crowu P. M. 1 transverse 022 Diameter crown P. M. antero-posterior 024 Diameter crown M. 1 antero-posterior 035 Diameter crown M. 1 transverse . 034 Diameter crown M. 2 transverse 043 Diameter crown M. 2 antero-posterior 045 Elevation of shovel above base of apex of nasal 060 The measurements may require some correction in respect to thbsupraorbital widtli, where the cranial walls have suffered from compres-sion. The frontal of one side has been pushed so as to overlaj) that ofthe other by about an inch. The scapula is of a sub-triangular form, the front being vertical, theapex directed backwards and an angle upwards. The posterior expan-sion is considerable, as in the elephants, while the superior angle isacuminate and much

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