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"Capellini, Giovanni"

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 Capellini, Giovanni (detail)
   
1865
[On Felsinotherium.] In: Seconda riunione stradordinaria della Società Italiana di Scienze Naturali tenuta alla Spezia nei giorni 18, 19, 20 e 21 settembre 1865. Sezione di paleontologia. 21 settembre 1865.
Atti Soc. Ital. Sci. Nat. Milano 8: 281-284. Read Sept. 21, 1865.
–Summary by Paolo Lioy of Capellini's presentation, in which he proposed the new generic name Felsinotherium [nomen nudum; 281], admitting at the same time (282) that its type species [later to be named F. forestii] is identical with that of Cheirotherium Bruno [i.e., C. subapenninum]!
 
 
 Capellini, Giovanni (detail)
   
1872
Sul Felsinoterio, sirenoide halicoreforme dei depositi littorali pliocenici dell'antico Bacino del Mediterraneo e del Mar Nero.
Mem. Accad. Sci. Ist. Bologna (3)1: 605-646. 8 pls. Read Feb. 15, 1872.
–Abstr.: Rend. Accad. Sci. Bologna 1871-72: 50-55? Also exists as a separate in 49 pp. + 8 pls., re-set with different page-breaks. This is Capellini's most important work on sirs., in which he names the genus Felsinotherium (615) and the species F. Forestii (617) and F. Gervaisi (634), both from the Pliocene of Italy.
 
 
 Capellini, Giovanni (detail)
   
1877
Balenottere fossili e Pachyacanthus dell'Italia Meridionale.
Rendiconti delle sedute della Reale Accademia dei Lincei (3)1: 611-630. 3 pls.
–Concludes that the atlas of Pachyacanthus cannot be referred to a mysticete or a sirenian but most closely resembles that of a river dolphin (Platanistidae sensu lato). Compares the atlas of Pachyacanthus with those of Halitherium schinzii, Felsinotherium forestii, Manatus, Halicore, and other cetaceans, with figures in pl. 3.
 
 
 Capellini, Giovanni (detail)
   
1878
Della pietra leccese e di alcuni suoi fossili.
Mem. Accad. Sci. Ist. Bologna (3)9(2): 227-258. 3 pls. Read Mar. 21, 1878.
–Abstr.: Rend. Accad. Sci. Bologna 1877-78: 111-113?
 
 
 Capellini, Giovanni (detail)
   
1886a
Sopra resti di un sirenio fossile (Metaxytherium lovisati, Cap.) raccolti a Monte Fiocca presso Sassari in Sardegna.
Mem. Accad. Sci. Ist. Bologna (4)7: 39-53. 1 pl. Read Feb. 14, 1886.
–Abstr.: Rend. Accad. Sci. Bologna 1885-86: 46-47?
 
 
 Capellini, Giovanni (detail)
   
1886b
Cetacei e sirenii fossili scoperti in Sardegna.
Atti Accad. Rom. (Rend. Accad. Lincei?) (4)2(1): 79-81.
Daryl P. Domning, Research Associate, Department of Paleobiology, National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C. 20560, and Laboratory of Evolutionary Biology, Department of Anatomy, College of Medicine, Howard University, Washington, D.C. 20059.
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