Douglas Emlong
Douglas Ralph Emlong (April 17, 1942–June 1980) was an amateur
Enaliarctos emlongi was named in his honor by Annalisa Berta in 1991.[3]
Discoveries
Fossils discovered by Douglas Emlong include:
Marine Mammals:
- cetaceans
- toothed whales
- Behemotops, a genus of primitive, elephant-like desmostylians
- A remarkably complete skeleton of Enaliarctos, a late-Oligocene pinniped ancestor, from Pyramid Hill, California
- The first complete skull of mollusks, which was previously thought to be a raccoonancestor
Birds:
- Tonsala hildegardae, a late-Oligocene pelicaniform which proved the existence of the proposed family Plotopteridae
References
- ^ "An unusual small "pug-nosed" dolphin, Simocetus rayi, from Oligocene rocks of the northeastern Pacific". Department of Geology, University of Otago, New Zealand. November 2007. Archived from the original on 2007-12-22.
- ^ Daryl P. Domning; Clayton Edward Ray; Malcolm C. McKenna (1986). Two new Oligocene desmostylians and a discussion of tethytherian systematics.
- ^ Annalisa Berta (1991). New Enaliarctos*(Pinnipedimorpha) from the Oligocene and Miocene of Oregon and the role of "Enaliarctids" in Pinniped phylogeny.
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