Bathmodon elephantopus Cope

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Object Details

Collector

Dr. Edward D. Cope

Geologic Age

Cenozoic / Paleogene / Eocene / Wasatchian

Record Last Modified

4 Aug 2025

Skeletal Morphology

Skull

Stratigraphy

/ San Jose Fm

Collection Date

Sep 1874

USNM Number

V111

Type Citation

Cope. 1874. U.S.Chief Of Engineers Ann.Rept., Appendix Ff. 121-122.

Cope. 1875. Geogr.Explor.Surveys W.100th Meridian Rept. 29.

Cope. 1875. Ann.Rept.Chief Engineers, Appendix. 95, pl.5-6.

Cope. 1877. U.S.Geogr.Surveys West Of 100th Meridian Rept. pl.50,f.5-6,pl.51,52,53,+54,f.1.

Cope. 1877. Am.Naturalist. 11 : 312-313.

Cope. 1878. Am.Naturalist. 12 : 324-326.

Cope. 1884. Am.Naturalist. 18 : 1193, 1200,tf.12,13,17,20,21,.

Cope. 1877. Am.Philos.Soc.Proc. 16 : 616-620, pl.1+2.

Cope. 1882. Am.Philos.Soc.Proc. 20 : 171.

Cope. 1878. Nature. 17 : 222.

Marsh. 1878. Nature. 17 : 340.

Cope. 1885. U.S.Geol.Survey Rept. 3 : 514, tf.21,p.522-523,tf.23-25,p.531-532.

Osborn, H. F. 1898. Am.Mus.Nat.Hist.Bull. 10 : 196, 197,198,200-201,tf.19-20.

Earle. 1892. Am.Mus.Nat.Hist.Bull. 4 (n.1): 160-161.

Matthew, W. D. 1899. Am.Mus.Nat.Hist.Bull. 12 : 33.

Type Status

holotype

type

Prep Count

Place

Rio Arriba County, New Mexico, United States, North America

Published Name

Bathmodon elephantopus Cope

Coryphodon elephantopus (Cope)

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Paleogeneral

Types: Mammals Terrestrial

Mammalia Primary Type

Paleobiology

Taxonomy

Animalia Chordata Vertebrata Synapsida Mammalia Eutheria Pantodonta Coryphodontidae

Data Source

NMNH - Paleobiology Dept.

Metadata Usage

CC0

Link to Original Record

http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/3f4303d28-fff6-4563-ae36-693a9e0373e6

Record ID

nmnhpaleobiology_3427810