Richard Owen

Richard Owen (20 July, 1804 – 18 July, 1892), British biologist and palaeontologist.

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Owen, R. in Mitchell, T.L. 1838. Three Expeditions into the interior of Eastern Australia: with descriptions of the recently explored region of Australia Felix, and of the present colony of New South Wales. T. and W. Boone, London Vol. 1: xix; Vol. 2: 359–363. Google Books Reference page.

Owen, R. 1839. On a new species of the genus Lepidosiren of Fitzinger and Natterer. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of London 1839 [v. 1]: 27–32. BHL Reference page.

Owen, R. 1840–45. Odontography, lxxiv + 655 pp., 168 pis. London. Reference page.
Owen, R. 1840. Description of the Lepidosiren annectens. The Transactions of the Linnean Society of London v. 18 (pt 3) (art. 20): 327–361, Pls. 23–27. BHL Reference page.
Owen, R. "1842" [1840]. Description of the Fossil Remains of a Mammal, a Bird, and a Serpent from the London Clay. Proceedings of the Geological Society of London 3: 162–166. BHL Reference page.

Owen, R. 1843. Report on the British Fossil Mammalia. Part I. Unguiculata and Cetacea. Report of the Twelfth Meeting of the British Association for the Advancement of Science; held at Manchester in June 1842 54–74. BHL Reference page.
Owen, R. 1843. On Dinornis novae-zealandiae Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 11: 8–10, 19, 144–146. BHL DOI: 10.1111/j.1469-7998.1843.tb00076.x Reference page.
Owen, R. 1843. On Dinornis, an extinct genus of tridactyle struthious birds, with descriptions of portions of the skeleton of five species which formerly existed in New Zealand (Part I). Transactions of the Zoological Society of London 3(3): 235–275, plates XVIII–XXX. Communicated 28 November 1843. BHL Reference page.
Owen, R. 1843. Notice of a new species of Seal (Stenorhynchus serridens). Annals and Magazine of Natural History, 12(78): 331–332. DOI: 10.1080/03745484309442533 BHL Reference page.

Owen, R. 1846. [Untitled proceedings]. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 14: 46–49. BHL Reference page.
Owen, R., 1846: Lectures on the comparative anatomy and physiology of the vertebrate animals, delivered at the Royal College of Surgeons of England in 1844 and 1846. Part 1: Fishes, 1–308. Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans; London.

Owen, R. 1847. Observations on certain fossil bones from the collection of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia. Journal of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia ser.2, vol.1: 18–20. BHL Reference page.

Owen, R. 1848. On Dinornis (Part III.): containing a description of the skull and beak of that genus, and of the same characteristic parts of Palapteryx, and of two other genera of birds, Notornis and Nestor; forming part of an extensive series of ornithic remains discovered by Mr. Walter Mantell at Waingongoro, North Island of New Zealand. Transactions of the Zoological Society of London 3(5): 345–378. BHL Reference page.
Owen, R. 1848. Description of Teeth and portions of Jaws of two extinct Anthracotherioid Quadrupeds (Hyopotamus vectianus and Hyop. bovinus) discovered by the Marchioness of Hastings in the Eocene Deposits on the N.W. coast of the Isle of Wight: with an attempt to develope Cuvier's idea of the Classification of Pachyderms by the Number of their Toes. Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society of London 4(1): 103–141. BHL Reference page.

Owen, R. 1855. On the Fossil Skull of a Mammal (Prorastomus sirenoïdes, Owen) from the Island of Jamaica. The Quarterly journal of the Geological Society of London 11: 541–543. BHL Reference page.

Owen, R. "1859" [1860]. On the Fossil Mammals of Australia.—Part 1. Description of a mutilated Skull of a large Marsupial Carnivore (Thylacoleo carnifex, Owen), from a calcareous conglomerate stratum, eighty miles S.W. of Melbourne, Victoria. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society 149: 309–322. BHL Reference page.
Owen, R. "1859" [1860]. On the Orders of Fossil and Recent Reptilia, and their Distribution in Time. Report of the Twenty-Ninth Meeting of the British Association for the Advancement of Science 153–166. BHL Reference page.

Owen, R. 1860. Paleontology or a systematic summary of extinct animals and their geological relations. Adam and Black, Edinburgh, 420 pp. Reference page.

Owen, R. 1874. On the fossil mammals of Australia. Part VIII. Family Macropodidae: genera Macropus, Osphranter, Phascolagus, Sthenurus, and Protemnodon. Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society 164: 245–287. BHL DOI: 10.1098/rstl.1874.0008 Reference page.
Owen, R. "1874" [1873]. On Dinornis (Part XIX.): containing a Description of a Femur indicative of a new Genus of large Wingless Bird (Dromornis australis, Owen) from a post-tertiary deposit in Queensland, Australia. Transactions of the Zoological Society of London 8(6): 381–384. DOI: 10.1111/j.1096-3642.1873.tb00563.x BHL Reference page.

Owen, R. 1875. A monograph on the Fossil Reptilia of the Mesozoic Formations. Monograph on the Genus Bothriospondylus. Palaeontographical Society 29: 15–26. DOI: 10.1080/02693445.1875.12113267. Reference page.

Owen, R. 1876. Descriptive and illustrated catalogue of the fossil Reptilia of South Africa in the collection of the British Museum. London: British Museum (Natural History). GoogleBooks Reference page.
Owen, R. 1876. Monograph on the fossil Reptilia of the Wealden and Purbeck Formations. Supplement 7. Crocodilia (Poikilopleuron) and Dinosauria? (Chondrosteosaurus). Palaeontographical Society Monographs, 30: 1-7.

Owen, R. 1879. Memoirs on the extinct wingless birds of New Zealand; with an appendix on those of England, Australia, Newfoundland, Mauritius, and Rodriguez. J. Van Voorst: London. BHL Reference page.

Owen, R. 1883. On Dinornis (Part XXIV.): containing a description of the head and feet, with their dried integuments, of an individual of the species Dinornis didinus, Owen. Transactions of the Zoological Society of London 11(8): 257–261, plates LIX–LXI. Communicated 20 June 1882. BHL DOI: 10.1111/j.1096-3642.1883.tb00360.x Reference page.