Othniel Charles Marsh

Othniel Charles Marsh

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

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

1874

1975

1877

1878

1879

1880

1881

1887

1888

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

1889

1890

  • 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.