Othniel Charles Marsh

Othniel Charles Marsh (October 29, 1831 – March 18, 1899), U.S. zoologist and palaeontologist.

Othniel Charles Marsh

Taxon names authored

(List may be incomplete)

• 65 taxon names authored by Othniel Charles Marsh

plus:

• Camptonotus dispar Marsh, 1879 [basonym of Camptosaurus dispar]
• Camptonotus amplus Marsh, 1879 [synonym]
• Sterrholophus flabellatus Marsh, 1889 [synonym]
• Ceratops horridus Marsh, 1889 [basonym of Triceratops horridus]
• Triceratops serratus Marsh, 1890 [synonym]
• Allops crassicornus Marsh, 1891
• Anchisaurus coelurus Marsh, 1891 [synonym]
• Torosaurus gladius Marsh, 1891 [synonym]
• Triceratops elatus Marsh, 1891 [synonym]
• Yaleosaurus colurus Marsh, 1891 [synonym]
• Camptosaurus medius Marsh, 1894 [synonym]
• Camptosaurus nanus Marsh, 1894 [synonym]
• Triceratops calicornis Marsh, 1898 [synonym]
• Triceratops obtusus Marsh, 1898 [synonym]

Publications

(List may be incomplete)

1873

• Marsh, O.C. 1873. On a New Sub-class of Fossil Birds (Odontornithes). The American Journal of Science and Arts. Series 3 5(26): 161–162. BHL Reference page. 

1874

• Marsh, O.C. 1874. Notice of new equine mammals from the Tertiary formation. American Journal of Science, and Arts 7(39): 247–258. BHL.

1975

• Marsh, O.C. 1875. New Order of Eocene Mammals. Nature 11(280): 368. DOI: 10.1038/011368b0 BHL Reference page. 
• Marsh, O.C. 1875. Notice of New Tertiary Mammals, IV. American Journal of Science, ser. 3, 9(51): 239–250. DOI: 10.2475/ajs.s3-9.51.239 BHL Reference page. 

1877

• Marsh, O.C. 1877. A New Order of Extinct Reptilia (Stegosauria) from the Jurassic of the Rocky Mountains. The American Journal of Science and Arts. Series 3 14(84): 513–514. DOI: 10.2475/ajs.s3-14.84.513 BHL Reference page. 
• Marsh, O.C. 1877. Notice of New Dinosaurian Reptiles from the Jurassic Formation. The American Journal of Science and Arts. Series 3 14(84): 514–516. DOI: 10.2475/ajs.s3-14.84.514 Reference page. 

1878

• Marsh, O.C. 1878. Notice of New Dinosaurian Reptiles. The American Journal of Science and Arts. Series 3 15(87): 241–244. DOI: 10.2475/ajs.s3-15.87.241 BHL Reference page. 

1879

• Marsh, O.C. 1879. Notice of new Jurassic reptiles. American Journal of Science and Arts 18: 501–505.

1880

• Marsh, O.C. 1880. Principal Characters of American Jurassic Dinosaurs. Part III. American Journal of Science. Series 3 19(111): 253–259. DOI: 10.2475/ajs.s3-19.111.253 BHL Reference page. 
• Marsh, O.C. 1880. Notice of Jurassic Mammals representing two New Orders. American Journal of Science, ser. 3, 20(117): 235–239. DOI: 10.2475/ajs.s3-20.117.235 BHL Reference page. 

1881

• Marsh, O.C. 1881. Principal Characters of American Jurassic Dinosaurs. Part V. The American Journal of Science. Series 3 21(125): 417–423. BHL Reference page. 

1887

• Marsh, O.C. 1887. American Jurassic mammals. American Journal of Science series 3, 33(196): 327–348. BHL Reference page. 

1888

• Marsh, O.C. 1888. A new family of horned Dinosauria, from the Cretaceous. The American Journal of Science, series 3 36: 477–478. Reference page. 
• Marsh, O.C. 1888. Notice of a New Fossil Sirenian, from California. The American Journal of Science, Third Series, 35(205): 94–96. BHL Reference page. 

1889

• Marsh, O.C. 1889. Notice of new American Dinosauria. The American Journal of Science and Arts, series 3 38: 331–336.

1890

• Marsh, O.C. 1890. Additional Characters of the Ceratopsidae, with notice of New Cretaceous Dinosaurs. American Journal of Science 39(233): 418–429. DOI: 10.2475/ajs.s3-39.233.418 BHL Reference page. 
• Marsh, O.C. 1890. Description of new dinosaurian reptiles. The American Journal of Science, series 3 39: 81–86.

1891

• Marsh, O.C. 1891. Notice of new vertebrate fossils. The American Journal of Science, series 3 42: 265–269.
• Marsh, O.C. 1891. Geological horizons as determined by vertebrate fossils. The American Journal of Science and Arts, series 3 42:336-338 DOI: 10.2475/ajs.s3-42.250.336

1894

• Marsh, O.C. 1894. The typical Ornithopoda of the American Jurassic. American Journal of Science, series 3 48: 85–90.

1898

• Marsh, O.C. 1898. New species of Ceratopsia. American Journal of Science 4:92.

External links

• http://www.ucmp.berkeley.edu/history/marsh.html
• https://web.archive.org/web/20060505134059/http://www.lockport-ny.com/History/Marsh.htm