Edward Drinker Cope

Edward Drinker Cope

Edward Drinker Cope (July 28, 1840 – April 12, 1897), American paleontologist and comparative anatomist, as well as a noted herpetologist and ichthyologist.

He discovered, described, and named more than 1,000 vertebrate species including hundreds of fishes and dozens of dinosaurs, and made more than 1,200 publications.

Taxon names authored

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  • 745 taxon names authored by Edward Drinker Cope

Eponyms

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  • 10 eponyms of Edward Drinker Cope

Publications

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1859

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1870

  • 1869–70. Synopsis of the extinct batrachia, reptilia and aves of North America. Part I [1869] pp. 1–104, II [1870] pp. 105–252. Transactions of the American Philosophical Society 14: 1–252. DOI: 10.5962/bhl.title.60499 BHL Reference page. 
  • 1870. On the skull of dicynodont Reptilia. Lystrosaurus frontosus from Cape Colony. Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society 11: 419.
  • 1870. Contribution to the ichthyology of the Marañon. Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society, Second series 11: 559–570. BHL Reference page. 
  • 1870. Partial synopsis of the fishes of the fresh waters of North Carolina. Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society, 11(84): 448–495. BHL Reference page. 
  • 1870. On the Saurodontidae. Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society, 11: 529–538. Reference page. 

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1874

  • 1874. Report upon vertebrate fossils discovered in New Mexico, with descriptions of new species. Appendix FF 3. Annual Report of the Chief of Engineers, 1874. Washington: Government Printing Office. 588–606. [Extract pp. 1–18] BHL Reference page. 

1875

  • 1875. On the Batrachia and Reptilia of Costa Rica: With notes on the herpetology and ichthyology of Nicaragua and Peru. Journal of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia 2:8: 93–154. DOI: 10.5962/bhl.title.5028 Reference page. 
  • & Yarrow, H.C. 1875. Report upon the collections of Fishes made in portions of Nevada, Utah, California, Colorado, New Mexico, and Arizona, during the years 1871, 1872, 1873, and 1874. Pp. 635–704 in Report upon Geographical and Geological Explorations and Surveys west of the One Hundredth Meridian. Volume V. Zoölogy. Government Printing Office, Washington DC. BHL Reference page. 

1876

  • 1876. Report on the Reptiles brought by Professor James Orton from the middle and upper Amazon and western Peru. Journal of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia N.S. (2) 8: 159–183 [1875].
  • (1876). On some extinct reptiles and Batrachia from the Judith River and Fox Hills Beds of Montana. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia 28: 340–359.
  • 1876. Descriptions of some vertebrate remains from the Fort Union beds of Montana. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia 28: 248–261. BHL Reference page. 

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1881

  • 1881. On some Mammalia of the lowest Eocene beds of New Mexico. Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society.
  • 1881. A new type of Perissodactyla. American Naturalist.
  • Packard Jr A.S., 1881. The fauna of the Nickajack Cave. The American Naturalist.
  • 1881. Mammalia of the lower Eocene beds.
  • 1881. Belodon in New Mexico. American Naturalist.
  • 1881. Review of the Rodentia of the Miocene Period of North America.
  • 1881. Eocene Plagiaulacidae. American Naturalist.
  • 1881. The systematic arrangement of the order Perissodactyla. Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society.

1882

  • 1882. New marsupials from the Puerco Eocene. American Naturalist 16: 684–686. BHL Reference page. 
  • 1882. Third contribution to the history of the Vertebrata of the Permian formation of Texas. Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society 20: 447–461.
  • 1882. Contributions to the history of the Vertebrata of the Lower Eocene of Wyoming and New Mexico, made during 1881. Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society
  • 1882. The Rhachitomous Stegocephali. The American Naturalist, 16(4): 334–335.

1883

  • 1883. The Vertebrata of the Tertiary Formations of the West. Report of the United States Geological Survey of the Territories, Vol. III. Government Printing Office, Washington; 1009 pp. BHL Reference page. 
  • 1883. First Addition to the Fauna of the Puerco Eocene Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society, 20 (113): 545–563.

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1894

  • 1894. New and little known Paleozoic and Mesozoic fishes. Journal of the Academy of Science, Philadelphia 9(2): 427–448. Reference page. 
  • 1894. Dean on Coprolites. Amer. Nat. Vol. XXIX, 1895, p. 159. [Discussion of Dean's paper in Trans. N. Y. Acad. Sci., 1894, 14 vol. xiii.]
  • 1894. [The Endowment of Original Research.] Amer. Nat. Vol. XXIX, 1895, pp. 345, 346. [Unsigned editorial. Cited hy Frazer.]
  • 1894. The Classification of the Ophidia. Trans. Amer. Pliilos. Soc. n. s. Vol. XVIII, 1894, pp. 186–219, Pis. XIV–XXXIII.

1895

  • 1895. The Batrachia and Reptilia of the University of Pennsylvania West Indian expedition of 1890 and 1891. Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia 46 [1894]: 429–442.
  • 1895. On a Collection of Batrachia and Reptilia from the Island of Hainan. Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila. Vol. XLVI, 1894, PP. 423–428.
  • 1895. The Neanderthal Man in Java. Amcr. Nat. Vol. XXIX, 1895, pp. 192, 193.
  • 1895. Modern Systematic Writers. Amer. Nat. Vol. XXIX, 1895, p. 345.
  • 1895. Fourth Contribution to the Marine Fauna of the Miocene Period of the United States. Proc. Amer. Philos. Soc. Vol. 9 XXXIV, 1895, pp. 135–154, PI. VI. [Abstract, Phylogeny of the Whalebone Whales, Amcr. Nat. Vol. XXIX, 1895, pp. 572–573].

1900

  • 1900. The crocodilians, lizards, and snakes of North America. Annual Report of the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution. Report of the U. S. National Museum, Year ending June 30, 1898. Part II: 153–1270. BHL Reference page.