The Kansas University Quarterly
Vol. I. No. 1.
JULY, 1892
| COMMITTEE OF PUBLICATION | |
| E. H. S. BAILEY | F. W. BLACKMAR |
| W. H. CARRUTH | C. G. DUNLAP |
| E. MILLER | S. W. WILLISTON |
| V. L. KELLOGG, Managing Editor | |
CONTENTS
| Kansas Pterodactyls, Part I. | S. W. Williston |
| Kansas Mosasaurs, Part I. | S. W. Williston and E. C. Case |
| Notes and Descriptions of Syrphidae, | W. A. Snow |
| Notes on Melitera dentata Grote, | V. L. Kellogg |
| Diptera Brasiliana, Part II. | S. W. Williston |
PUBLISHED BY THE UNIVERSITY
Lawrence, Kansas
Price of this number, 50 cents
Entered at the Post-office in Lawrence as Second-class matter
Journal Publishing House,
Lawrence, Kansas.
1892.
BY S. W. WILLISTON.
PART I, WITH PLATE I.
The first American species of the singular group of extinct Mesozoicreptiles variously know as Ornithosaurs, Pterosaurs or Pterodactyls wasdescribed by Marsh from a fragmentary specimen obtained in 1870, by theYale College Expedition in Wallace County, Kansas. About a dozen otherspecimens were obtained by a similar expedition the following year incharge of Professor Marsh, or by Professor Cope, and were described bythese authors shortly afterward. By far the largest number of knownspecimens, however, other than those in the Kansas University Museum,were obtained during the years 1874, ’75, ’76 and ’77 by parties ofwhich Professor Mudge, Dr. H. A. Brous, E. W. Guild, George Cooper andmyself were the members, and it was from these specimens that mostof the published characters were derived. Many of these specimensare necessarily fragmentary ones, still the material now in the Yale CollegeMuseum is ample to elucidate everything of interest concerning these animals.
During the past few years, the Museum of Kansas U