Edward Drinker Cope

Edward Drinker Cope (July 28, 1840 – April 12, 1897), American paleontologist and comparative anatomist, as well as a noted herpetologist and ichthyologist.

He discovered, described, and named more than 1,000 vertebrate species including hundreds of fishes and dozens of dinosaurs, and made more than 1,200 publications.

Taxon names authored

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  • 276 taxon names authored by Edward Drinker Cope

Publications

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1859

1860

1861

1862

  • Cope, E.D. 1862. Catalogue of the Reptiles obtained during the Explorations of the Parana, Paraguay, Vermejo and Uraguay Rivers, by Capt. Thos. J. Page, U. S. N.; and of those procured by Lieut. N. Michler, U. S. Top. Eng., Commander of the Expedition conducting the Survey of the Atrato River. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia 14: 346–359. BHL Reference page. 

1863

1864

1865

1867

  • Cope, E.D. 1867. Supplement on some new species of American and African fishes. Transactions of the American Philosophical Society, (New Series) 13(3) (art. 13): 400–407. Reference page. 

1868

1869

1870

  • Cope, E.D. 1870. Synopsis of the extinct Batrachia, Reptilia and Aves of North America. Transactions of the American Philosophical Society, New Series 14(1): 1–252.
  • Cope, E.D. 1870. On the skull of dicynodont Reptilia. Lystrosaurus frontosus from Cape Colony. Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society 11: 419.
  • Cope, E. D. 1870. Partial synopsis of the fishes of the fresh waters of North Carolina. Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society, 11(84): 448–495. BHL Reference page. 
  • Cope, E.D. 1870. On the Saurodontidae. Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society, 11: 529–538. Reference page. 

1871

  • Cope, E.D. 1871. On the fossil reptiles and fishes of the Cretaceous rocks of Kansas: United States Geological Survey of Wyoming and portions of the Contiguous Territories (F.V. Hayden), 4th Annual Report, 385–242. Reference page. 

1872

  • Cope, E.D. 1872. Observations on the systematic relations of the fishes. Proceedings of the American Association for the Advancement of Science 2, 20: 317–343. (Dated 1871 when paper was presented orally, but published in 1872). Reference page. 

1875

1876

  • Cope, E.D. 1876. Report on the Reptiles brought by Professor James Orton from the middle and upper Amazon and western Peru. Journal of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia N.S. (2) 8: 159–183 [1875].
  • Cope, E.D. (1876). On some extinct reptiles and Batrachia from the Judith River and Fox Hills Beds of Montana. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia 28: 340–359.
  • Cope, E. D., 1876: Descriptions of some vertebrate remains from the Fort Union beds of Montana. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, 28: 248–261. Reference page. 

1878

  • Cope, E.D. 1878. On the Vertebrata of the Dakota Epoch of Colorado. Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society 17 100: 233–247.

1881

  • Cope E.D., 1881. On some Mammalia of the lowest Eocene beds of New Mexico. Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society.
  • Cope E.D., 1881. A new type of Perissodactyla. American Naturalist.
  • Cope E.D., Packard Jr A.S., 1881. The fauna of the Nickajack Cave. The American Naturalist.
  • Cope E.D., 1881. Mammalia of the lower Eocene beds.
  • Cope E.D., 1881. Belodon in New Mexico. American Naturalist.
  • Cope E.D., 1881. Review of the Rodentia of the Miocene Period of North America...
  • Cope E.D., 1881. Eocene Plagiaulacidae. American Naturalist.
  • Cope E.D., 1881. The systematic arrangement of the order Perissodactyla. Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society.

1882

  • Cope, E.D. 1882. Third contribution to the history of the Vertebrata of the Permian formation of Texas. Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society 20: 447–461.
  • Cope E.D., 1882. Contributions to the history of the Vertebrata of the Lower Eocene of Wyoming and New Mexico, made during 1881. Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society

1884

  • Cope, E.D. 1884. On the structure of the skull in the elasmobranch genus Didymodus. Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society, 21: 572–590. Reference page. 

1886

  • Cope, E. D., 1886: An interesting connecting genus of Chordata. The American Naturalist, 20: 1027–1031. DOI: 10.1086/274385

1887

  • Cope, E.D. 1887. Geology and palaeontology. The American Naturalist, 21: 1104–1019. Reference page. 

1889

  • Cope, E.D. 1889. On a new genus of Triassic Dinosauria. The American Naturalist 23: 626.

1894

  • Cope, E. D., 1894: New and little known Paleozoic and Mesozoic fishes. Journal of the Academy of Science, Philadelphia, 9 (2): 427–448.
  • Cope, E.D. 1894. Dean on Coprolites. Amer. Nat. Vol. XXIX, 1895, p. 159. [Discussion of Dean's paper in Trans. N. Y. Acad. Sci., 1894, 14 vol. xiii.]
  • Cope, E.D. 1894. [The Endowment of Original Research.] Amer. Nat. Vol. XXIX, 1895, pp. 345, 346. [Unsigned editorial. Cited hy Frazer.]
  • Cope, E.D. 1894. The Classification of the Ophidia. Trans. Amer. Pliilos. Soc. n. s. Vol. XVIII, 1894, pp. 186–219, Pis. XIV–XXXIII.

1895

  • Cope, E.D. 1895. The Batrachia and Reptilia of the University of Pennsylvania West Indian expedition of 1890 and 1891. Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia 46 [1894]: 429–442.
  • Cope, E.D. 1895. On a Collection of Batrachia and Reptilia from the Island of Hainan. Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila. Vol. XLVI, 1894, PP. 423–428.
  • Cope, E.D. 1895. The Neanderthal Man in Java. Amcr. Nat. Vol. XXIX, 1895, pp. 192, 193.
  • Cope, E.D. 1895. Modern Systematic Writers. Amer. Nat. Vol. XXIX, 1895, p. 345.
  • Cope, E.D. 1895. Fourth Contribution to the Marine Fauna of the Miocene Period of the United States. Proc. Amer. Philos. Soc. Vol. 9 XXXIV, 1895, pp. 135–154, PI. VI. [Abstract, Phylogeny of the Whalebone Whales, Amcr. Nat. Vol. XXIX, 1895, pp. 572–573].

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