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<document ID-DOI="10.5281/zenodo.3368363" ID-GBIF-Dataset="6de1cdbb-5c8e-4f58-b9e0-1790503ef0a5" ID-Zenodo-Dep="3368363" approvalRequired="35" approvalRequired_for_bibRefs="2" approvalRequired_for_taxonomicNames="13" checkinTime="1565788152416" checkinUser="jeremy" docAuthor="Cope, E. D." docDate="1876" docId="820987CAAF4CFFF1819EFF47FC94FF7A" docLanguage="en" docName="Cope1976b.pdf" docOrigin="Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia 28" docStyle="DocumentStyle{}" docTitle="Uronautes cetiformis Cope ED 1876, sp. nov." docType="treatment" docVersion="17" lastPageNumber="347" masterDocId="7E30FFB2AF4AFFF98112FFEBFFD6FF9C" masterDocTitle="On some extinct reptiles and batrachia from the Judith River and Fox Hills beds of Montana" masterLastPageNumber="359" masterPageNumber="340" pageNumber="346" updateTime="1645445794220" updateUser="jeremy">
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<mods:title>On some extinct reptiles and batrachia from the Judith River and Fox Hills beds of Montana</mods:title>
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<mods:date>1876</mods:date>
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<taxonomicName authority="Cope ED, 1876" authorityName="Cope ED" authorityYear="1876" baseAuthorityName="Cope" box="[140,344,172,189]" class="Reptilia" genus="Uronautes" higherTaxonomySource="GBIF" kingdom="Animalia" order="Plesiosauria" pageId="6" pageNumber="346" phylum="Chordata" rank="species" species="cetiformis" status="sp. nov.">
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,
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The cervical vertebra of this species
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of unusual
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, being short and transverse, and not wider than deep.
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this vertebra is much
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than deep, and
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long as wide. The neuropophyses are compressed so as to be anteroposterior. and
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inclose a rather wide neural canal. The parapophyses are directed equally downwards and
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, occupying the position of the angle of a subquadrate outline, since the sides are nearly vertical.
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articular faces are slightly
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, and the centrum is perforated vertically by the usual two foramina.
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dorsal vertebra found in
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proximity
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cervical just described is much like that of the
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.
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is, it is exceedingly short antero-posteriorly, and has concave articular faces, the concavity with
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fundus, and marked with a few obscure
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grooves. The sides
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also
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concave, and are pierced with a.
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at the superior
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. The vertical
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also present.
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neural arch is in this specimen separated from the centrnm, not having become coössified. This circumstance might lead
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a doubt as to the proper reference of the specimen to this animal, but such doubt has little foundation. In one of the caudal vertebrae one
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the diapophyses is coössified, and the other is not. The suture of the surface thus exposed is of a very fine texture, and evidently not like that seen in the genera where it is
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act
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permanent articulation. In the case of the dorsal
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, the suture for the neuropophysis has the same character. This
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is much larger than the cervical, but does not much exceed the proximal
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in size; preserving the relations seen in the
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. Adjoining the border of the fossa of the neuropopliysis is a small parapophysial tuberosity.
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A proximal caudal vertebra has a very small fore and
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diameter,
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the vertical exceeds the transverse diameter. The diapophyses spring from the middle of the sides of the Centrum, while the inferior face is
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from the inferior lateral faces by an obtuse longitudinal angle.
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general, the form is that of a transverse hexagon. The chevron facets are very slightly
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. Another probably distal caudal vertebra considerably resembles that in the corresponding
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of the skeleton of a cetacean. It is without neural arch, transverse, flat below, and
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two lateral faces of unequal length, the superior being the
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. The vertical perforating foramina join at the neural canal,
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there is a short subquadrate plane on each side of the latter. There are no indications of chevron facets. These vertebrae are diflerent from any of those yet known in
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.
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<emphasis box="[365,508,352,369]" italics="true" pageId="7" pageNumber="347">Measurements</emphasis>
.
</th>
<th box="[745,787,352,369]" gridcol="1" gridrow="0" pageId="7" pageNumber="347">M.</th>
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antero-postorior Diameter
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a. cervical Centrum {vertical transverse
</td>
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<td box="[99,722,471,545]" gridcol="0" gridrow="2" pageId="7" pageNumber="347">antero-posterior Diameter of a dorsal {vertical transverse</td>
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<td box="[99,722,555,628]" gridcol="0" gridrow="3" pageId="7" pageNumber="347">antero-posterior Diameter of a proximal caudal {vertical transverse</td>
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antero-posterior Diameter of a distal caudal
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vertical transverse
</td>
<td box="[745,787,638,713]" gridcol="1" gridrow="4" pageId="7" pageNumber="347">. 015. 017. 038</td>
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<td box="[99,722,722,768]" gridcol="0" gridrow="5" pageId="7" pageNumber="347">Diameter of neural canal of the proximal caudal above mem- sured</td>
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<emphasis box="[101,130,779,796]" italics="true" pageId="7" pageNumber="347">Do</emphasis>
. of diapoplıysis of do. at base
</td>
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The distal
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of a proximal limb bone is much like the correspending part of
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latipinnis
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. It is relatively of large size, flat, and strongly convex at the extremity, which is not transversely truncate. A portion of another liinb
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, perhaps belonging to the distal segment, is symmetrical. The shaft is broken off,and displays a large medullary cavity, with thin walls, which soon terminates towards the articular end, in a fundos with a fissure in the bottom. The proximal
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of a rib hus a truncate head
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an
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outline.
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inferior border presents a
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tnberosity, which may represent the capitulum.
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<th box="[99,551,1165,1183]" gridcol="0" gridrow="0" pageId="7" pageNumber="347">Measurements.</th>
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<emphasis bold="true" box="[754,775,1170,1182]" pageId="7" pageNumber="347">M.</emphasis>
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<td box="[99,551,1198,1220]" gridcol="0" gridrow="1" pageId="7" pageNumber="347">Width of distal end of proximal limb bone</td>
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<td box="[99,551,1227,1244]" gridcol="0" gridrow="2" pageId="7" pageNumber="347">
Thiekness
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the same
</td>
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<td box="[99,551,1255,1305]" gridcol="0" gridrow="3" pageId="7" pageNumber="347">longer Diameter of proximal end of a rib {shorter</td>
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</paragraph>
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The bones
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described were found together
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the
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, on a slope of the cream-colored soft sandstone, which
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above the black shales of Cretaceous No.
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, near Amell's
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, Montana.
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suppose the formation to be the No. 5, or Fox Hills group of Meek and Hayden. Near them
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found shark's teeth of the genera
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</taxonomicName>
and
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</taxonomicName>
. and
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species of
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</taxonomicName>
.
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them l found lying loose
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fragment of a Baculites.
</paragraph>
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</treatment>
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