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Yates, Lorenzo Gordin (detail)
   
1877
The marine monster of Alameda County.
Pacific School & Home Jour. 1(3): 77-79. May 1877.
–The earliest published description of "a new undescribed cetacean" (Desmostylus), supposedly from Alameda County, California (but see J. C. Merriam, 1911). Later that year this article was partly reprinted in the Alameda County Independent and as a broadside; a facsimile of the latter is reproduced in C. L. Camp (1963: 388).

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  x D v 1877 Yates, L.G. (Desmostylus; Alameda Co.; first published description; 77-79.)

Desmostylus Marsh, 1888
  x D v 1877 Yates, L.G. (Alameda Co., California; first published description; 78-79.)


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