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Bassler R. S. 1936 NEW SPECIES OF AMERICAN EDRIOASTEROIDEA Smithsonian Misc. Coll. #3385 wraps light wear, vg, 33 pp., 7 plates. Price: $20.00 (stock#IPE158P)

Blake D. B. 1973 OSSICLE MORPHOLOGY OF SOME RECENT ASTEROIDS AND DESCRIPTION OF SOME WEST AMERICAN FOSSIL ASTEROIDS published by University of California Publications in Geological Sciences Vol. 104 8vo, in wraps as issued, wraps with notations, contents good with 59 pp., 19 plts of recent and fossil starfish.
Price: $15.00 (stock#IPE233)

Bower J. C. 1974 UPPER ORDOVICIAN XENOCRINIDS (CRINOIDEA, CAMERATA) FROM SCOTLAND University of Kansas
Paleontological Contributions #67 8vo, in wraps as issued, wraps with stamps, ex-lib copy, some external wear, contents good with 25 pp., 3 plts, 4 figs. Price: $15.00 (stock#IPE234)

Clark W. B. and Twitchell M. W. 1915 THE MESOZOIC AND CENOZOIC ECHINODERMATA OF THE UNITED STATES U. S. Geological Survey Monograph #54 4to, in cloth as issued, some external wear, contents good with 341 pages, 108 plates of fossil echinoderms, mostly Cretaceous and Cenozoic sea urchins and sand dollars.

Price: $70.00 (stock#USGSM054)

Fay R. O. 1961 BLASTOID STUDIES Unv. Kansas, Paleont. Contributions Article 3, 4to, wraps with some wear, light dust soiling, contents vg, 147 pp., 54 plates, 221, figs. A classic treatise on blastoids.

Price: $25.00 (stock#IPE119P)

Gill E. D. and Caster K. E. 1960 CARPOID ECHINODERMS FROM THE SILURIAN AND DEVONIAN OF AUSTRALIA Bull. American Paleont. #41 8vo, wraps inscribed by author, light corner crease/bump else vg, 60 pp. 10 plates of fossils. Price: $20.00 (stock#IPE111P)

Moore R. C. and Laudon L. R. 1943 EVOLUTION AND CLASSIFICATION OF PALEOZOIC CRINOIDS Geol. Soc. America Special Paper #46 8vo wps with some wear, contents vg, 153 pp., 14 plts 18 figs.

Price: $35.00 (stock#GSASP46P)

Moore R. C. et al. (eds.) 1966 TREATISE ON INVERTEBRATE PALEONTOLOGY VOLUME U Parts 1 and 2 comprising ECHINODERMATA 3 both volumes with light wear, former owner's signature on free end paper else fine clean set. With 695 pp., and 534 figures of fossils paginated continuously across the two volume set and includes coverage of Ophiuroids (brittle stars) and other starfish, echinoids, edrioasteroids and other groups on non-crinoid echinoderms. Price: $50.00 (stock#TIPUx2)

Paul C. R. C. 1967 THE BRITISH SILURIAN CYSTOIDS British Museum Nat. Hist. Bull. 13(6) wraps light wear, vg, 57 pp., 10 plates, 44 figs. Price: $25.00 (stock#IPE136)

Regnell G. 1945 NON-CRINOID PELMATOZOA FROM THE PALEOZOIC OF SWEDEN Medd. Lunds Geol. Min. #108 8vo, in wraps with presentation from author to G. W. Sinclair, some external wear, short tear, soiling to wraps, contents overall good with corner bump, light adhesion wear on a few of the plates from corners being stuck together. A good research/reading copy with 255 pp., 15 plates. Price: $30.00 (stock#IPE137P)

Schuchert C. 1915 REVISION OF PALEOZOIC STELLEROIDEA WITH SPECIAL REFERENCE TO NORTH AMERICAN
ASTEROIDEA U. S. National Museum Bulletin #88 8vo, bound in blue cloth, some exterior wear, former owner's signature and stamp to title page else contents very good with light wear, 311 pp., 38 plates of fossil starfish. One of the most important monographs on fossil starfish ever published. Price: $55.00 (stock#IPE42)

Teichert C. 1949 PERMIAN CRINOID CALCEOLISPONGIA Geological Society of America Memoir #34 in red cloth as issued, ex-lib else contents very good with 132 pp., 26 plts, 24 figs. Price: $20.00 (stock#GSAMem34)

Wachsmuth C. and Springer F. 1888 DISCOVERY OF THE VENTRAL STRUCTURE OF TAXOCRINUS AND HAPLO-CRINUS, AND CONSEQUENT MODIFICATION IN THE CLASSIFICATION OF THE CRINOIDEA and CROTOLACRINUS: ITS STRUCTURE AND ZOOLOGICAL POSITION Proc. Phil. Acad. Natural Sciences 8vo, wraps with some edge wear, short tear, signed by author Springer, contents vg, 54 pp., 3 plates. Price: $25.00 (stock#IPE163P)

Hay O. P. 1929 – 1930 SECOND BIBLIOGRAPHY AND CATALOGUE OF THE FOSSIL VERTEBRATA OF NORTH AMERICA Carnegie Institution Publication #390 Two massive volumes, both in wraps overall light wear, minor chips, small stain to paper spine cover, blind stamp else contents clean and a very good set of a rather scarce and very important vertebrate paleontology reference. Vol. 1 with 916 pp., Vol. 2 with 1074 pp. While a prolific paleontologist in his own right, Hay took it upon himself to compile an exhaustive catalog of North American vertebrate fossils, often reassigning specimens to other genera, neglecting type specimens or lack thereof, designating lectotypes, etc.. which had the end result of causing 100 years of chaos, which still continues as the current generation of researchers works through the mess he created. Hence, this volume is a must have primary reference for the fossil vertebrate researcher and enthusiast. Price: $150.00 (stock#Hay2ndbiblio)

Brough J. 1939 THE TRIASSIC FISHES OF BESANO LOMBARDY British Museum of Natural History, folio light external wear, corner bump to board but not contents which are fine, clean, 117 pp., 7 plates, 6 figures. Scarce.

Price: $65.00 (stock#VPF12)

Hussakof L. 1908 CCATALOGUE OF TYPE AND FIGURED SPECIMENS OF FOSSIL VERTEBRATES IN THE AMERICAN MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY PART 1. - FISHES wraps loose with wear, contents vg with 103 pp., 6 plates of fossils (including the holotype of Ptycholepis marshi), folding table. Scarce. Price: $30.00 (stock#AMNH25)

Lundberg J. G. 1975 THE FOSSIL CATFISHES OF NORTH AMERICA Unv. Michigan 4to, printed wraps, light wear, vg copy, 51 pp., 7 plates, 11 figs and mostly on specimens From the Green River and Bridger Formations and their equivalents. A classic report. Price: $20.00 (stockVPF22)

Schlaikjer E. M. 1937 NEW FISHES FROM THE CONTINENTAL TERTIARY OF ALASKA American Museum of Natural History Bulletin 74(1) in wraps, light very good copy, pages unopened/untrimmed, with 23 pp., figuresm folding map. Price: $10.00 (stock#AMNH74-1)

Smith G. R. and Kimmel P. G. 1975 FISHES OF THE PLIOCENE GLENNS FERRY FORMATION SOUTHWEST IDAHO and FISHES OF THE MIOCENE-PLIOCENE DEER BUTTE FORMATION, SOUTHEAST OREGON 4to, wps, some external wear, contents clean, vg, 87 pp., 34 figs. Price: $20.00 (stock#VPF61)

Sweet W. C. 1988 THE CONODONTA - MORPHOLOGY, TAXONOMY, PALEOECOLOGY, AND EVOLUTIONARY HISTORY OF A LONG-EXTINCT ANIMAL PHYLUM Oxford Unv., Monograph #10 cloth with gilt title, light wear, vg copy, 212 pp., scores of figs. Price: $25.00 (stock#VPC22P)

Ashmole N. P. and Ashmole M. J. 1967 COMPARATIVE FEEDING ECOLOGY OF SEA BIRDS OF A TROPICAL OCEANIC ISLAND Yale Peabody Museum Bulletin #24 8vo, in wraps, light wear and a very good copy with 131 pp., 11 figures and on Christmas Island's bird population. Price: $25.00 (stock#VPR31)

Broom R. 1915 CATALOGUE OF TYPES AND FIGURED SPECIMENS OF FOSSIL VERTEBRATES IN THE AMERICAN MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY PART II – PERMIAN, TRIASSIC AND JURASSIC REPTILES OF SOUTH AFRICA AMNH Bull. 25-2 wraps, light wear, pages unopened, 59 pp., 49 figs, folding map. Scarce.

Price: $30.00 (stock#AMNHB25-2)

Colbert E. H. 1946 HYPSOGNATHUS, A TRIASSIC REPTILE FROM NEW JERSEY AMNH Bull. #68(5) wps, light wear, contents vg, 50 pp., 9 plates, 20 figs. Price: $20.00 (stock#AMNHB68-5)

Colbert E. H. 1948 THE MAMMAL-LIKE REPTILE LYCAENOPS AMNH Bull. 89(6) wraps light wear contents vg, 52 pp., 8 plates, 24 figs. Price: $20.00 (stock#AMNHB89-6)

Gregory W. K. 1946 PAREIASAURS VERSUS PLACODONTS AS NEAR ANCESTORS TO THE TURTLES AMNH Bull. 86(6) wraps light wear, contents vg, 51 pp., 2 plates, 23 figs. Price: $20.00 (stock#AMNHB86-6)

Horner J. R. 1997 DINOSAUR LIVES UNEARTHING AN EVOLUTIONARY SAGA 8vo, in cloth with dust jacket, light wear, contents clean and very good with 244 pp., some figures. A nice read by Horner, one of the more able vertebrate and dinosaur paleontologists of modern times. Price: $15.00 (stock#VPR23)

Kuhne W. G. 1956 THE LIASSIC THERASPID OLIGOKYPHUS British Museum Nat. Hist. royal 4tl, in cloth as issued, small corner bump to cloth, small owners signature else fine clean copy of this classic monograph with 149 pp., 12 plates, 56 figs. Hard to find a decent copy. Price: $75.00 (stock#135)

Lockley, M., and Hunt, A.P., 1995, Dinosaur tracks and other fossil footprints of the western United States: New York, Columbia University Press, 8vo, cloth with dust jacket, light wear, contents clean, vg to fine with 360 pp., numerous figures, and covers mostly Mesozoic strata on the Colorado Plateau with much on the early to middle Jurassic Glen Canyon Group footprint faunas as well as those of the Cretaceous. Price: $30.00 (stock#IPT21)

Meyer C. and Lockley M. 2000 DINOSAUR TRACKS AND OTHER FOSSIL FOOTPRINTS OF EUROPE 8vo, cloth with dust jacket,light wear, a vg copy with 323 pp., scores of figs. Price: $25.00 (stock#EUR120)

Ostrom J. H. 1964 A FUNCTIONAL ANALYSIS OF JAW MECHANICS IN THE DINOSAUR TRICERATOPS YPM Postilla #88 title wps with stamp else light wear, vg, 35 pp., 9 figs. Price: $15.00 (stock#VPR155)

PERMIAN REPTILES FROM NEW MEXICO two (2) reports, both published by the New Mexico Bureau of Mines, both with light wear, contents very good. They are: (1) Berman D. S. et al. 1985 ECOLSONIA CUTLERENSIS, AN EARLY PERMIAN DISSOROPHOID AMPHIBIAN FROM THE CUTLER FORMATION OF NORTH-CENTRAL NEW MEXICO with 31 pp., 14 figures; and (2) Eberth D. A. 1985 THE SKULL OF SPHENACODON FEROCIOR, AND COMPARISON WITH OTHER SPHENACO-DONTINES (REPTILIA: PELYSCOSAURIA) with 39 pp., 39 figures. A nice set of reports on Permian fossil vertebrates from New Mexico. Price: $20.00 (stock#NMreptx2)

Simspon G. G. 1938 CROSSOCHELYS, EOCENE HORNED TURTLE FROM PATAGONIA American Museum of Natural History Bulletin 74(5) in wraps, light wear, fine clean copy, pages unopened/untrimmed, with 33 pp., several plates, 10 figures. Price: $15.00 (stock#AMNH74-5)

Spielmann J. A. et al. 2008 THE LATE TRIASSIC ARCHOSAUROMORPH TRILOPHOSAURUS New Mexico Museum of Natural History Bulletin #43 4to, in wraps as issued, light wear, contents very good with 177 pp., 124 figures, and on this enigmatic fossil reptile first discovered at Otis Chalk, in Howard County, Texas, with other occurrences from other late Triassic outcrops also discussed. A nice volume. Price: $30.00 (stock#VPR42)

Whitfield R. P. 1900 NOTE ON THE PRINCIPAL TYPE SPECIMEN OF MOSASAURUS MAXIMUS COPE, WITH ILLUSTRATIONS offprint, AMNH Bulletin 8(4), in wraps, cloth tape along spine, ex-lib, signed "Compliments of the Author", 5 pp., 2 plates. Scarce. Price: $25.00 (stock#VPR18)

Black C. C. and Dawson, M. R. (eds.) 1989 PAPERS ON FOSSIL RODENTS IN HONOR OF ALBERT ELMER WOOD LA County Nat. Hist. Museum 8vo cloth in original publishers shrink wrap and like new, with 192 pp., numerous figs.

Price: $20.00 (stock#VPM160)

Boonstra L. D. 1936 THE CRANIAL MORPHOLOGY OF SOME TITANOSUCHID DEINOCEPHALIANS AMNH Bull. 72(3) wraps light wear, vg copy, 17 pp., 9 plates, 11 figs. Price: $20.00 (stock#AMNHB72-3)

Granger W. and Gregory W. K. 1936 FURTHER NOTES ON THE GIGANTIC EXTINCT RHINOCEROS, BALUCHITHERIUM FROM MONGOLIA AMNH Bull. 72(1) wraps light wear, contents vg, 73 pp., 4 plates, 47 figs.

Price: $20.00 (stock#AMNHB72-1)

Lillegraven J. A. et al. 1981 EVOLUTIONARY RELATIONSHIPS OF MIDDLE EOCENE AND YOUNGER SPECIES OF CENTEDON (MAMMALIA: INSECTIVORA, GEOLABIDIDAE) WITH A DESCRIPTION OF THE DENTITION OF ANKYLODON (ADAPISORICIDAE) Unv WY Pubs. Vol. 45 4to, wps with some external wear contents vg, 115 pp., 55 figs. Price: $15.00 (stockVPM146)

Matthew W. D. 1898 FOSSIL MAMMALS OF THE TERTIARY OF NORTHEASTERN COLORADO AMNH Memoir Vol. 1, Part 7 royal 4to, in wraps, which are a bit tender else contents clean and vg, with 92 pp., 3 plates, 34 figs. Scarce.
Price: $60.00 (stock#VPM12)

(Owen, Richard) American Journal of Science and Arts 1852, 2nd Series, Volume 14 (issues 40, 41, 42) in original wraps with some external wear, contents vg with diverse reports. Of special interest are: Richard Owen’s COMPARISON OF THE MODIFICATIONS OF THE OSSEOUS STRUCTURE OF THE MEGATHERIUM WITH THAT IN OTHER KNOWN EXISTING AND EXTINCT SPECIES OF THE CLASS MAMMALIA pp. 91-96; ON CORAL REEFS AND ISLANDS By J. D. Dana (several reports present in the three issues); and more. Price: $30.00 (stock#AJS2-14)

Pilgrim G. E. 1937 SIWALIK ANTELOPES AND OXEN IN THE AMERICAN MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY AMNH Bull. 72(7) wraps with light wear, contents vg, 155 pp, 81 figs. Price: $20.00 (stock#AMNHB72-7)

Schultz C. B. and Falkenback C. H. 1947 MERYCHYINAE, A SUBFAMILY OF OREODONTS AMNH Bull. 88(4) wraps light wear, contents vg, 136 pp., 17 figs. Price: $25.00 (stock#AMNHB88-4)

Schultz C. B. and Falkenbach C. H. 1954 MINIOCHOERINAE AND OREONETINAE, TWO NEW SUBFAMILIES OF OREODONTS AMNH Bulletin 109(4) wraps with light wear, contents vg, 109 pp., 12 figs.

Price: $20.00 (stock#AMNHB109-4)

Simpson G. G. 1940 STUDIES ON THE EARLIEST PRIMATES American Museum of Natural History Bulletin 77(4) in wraps, light wear, very good copy, pages unopened/untrimmed, with 17 pp., several figures.
Price: $15.00 (stock#AMNH77-4)

Simspon G. G. 1945 NOTES ON PLEISTOCENE AND RECENT TAPIRS American Museum of Natural History Bulletin 86(2) 8vo, in wraps as issued, light wear, contents very good with 49 pp., 6 plts, 11 figs. Price: $20.00 (stock#AMNHB86-2)

Smith G. R. and Friedland N. E. 1975 STUDIES ON CENOZOIC PALEONTOLOGY AND STRATIGRAPHY Unv Mich Claude W. Hibbard Memorial Vol. 3 wps with stamp, notation else light wear vg, 143 pp., scores of figs on various fossil mammal faunas. Price: $20.00 (stock#UMPCH3)

Szalay, F. S. et al (eds.) 1993 MAMMAL PHYLOGENY PARTS 1 AND 2, complete, Springer-Verlag, 4to, pictorial cloth, both volumes vg to fine, clean copy, no ownership markings. PART 1 – MESOZOIC DIFFERENTIATION, MULTITUBERCULATES, MONOTREMES, EARLY THERIANS AND MARSUPIALS, 249 pp., scores of figs; PART 2 – PLACENTALS 217 pp., scores of figs,. Difficult to find a complete set. Price: $80.00 (stock#VPMPhyloset)

Wood H. E. 1934 REVISION OF THE HYRACHYIDAE AMNH Bull. 67-5 wraps, light wear, pages unopened, 115 pp., 5 plates, 51 figs. Price: $25.00 (stock#AMNHBB77-5)

Woodburne M. O. and Clemens W. A. (eds.) 1986 REVISION OF THE EKTOPODONTIDAE (MAMMALIA; MARSUPIALIA; PHALANGEROIDEA) OF THE AUSTRALIAN NEOGENE Unv. California Geological Sciences Publications #131 in wraps as issued, light wear, contents very good with 114 pp. and a score of figures including some specimen photographs as stereo pairs, on this extinct group of Maruspial mammals. Price: $15.00 (stock#MAMM31)