Edward Drinker Cope

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Edward Drinker Cope

(28.VII.1840 – 12.IV.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 1200 publications.

Publication [edit]

  • Cope, E.D. 1859: On the Primary Divisions of the Salamandridse, with Descriptions of Two New Species. Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila. Vol. XI, 1859, pp. 122-128.
  • Cope, E.D. 1859: The Batrachia and Reptilia of the University of Pennsylvania West Indian Expedition of 1890 and 1891. Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila. Vol. XLVI, 1894, pp. 429-442, Pis. X-XII.
  • Cope, E.D. 1859: 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. 1859: The Neanderthal Man in Java. Amcr. Nat. Vol. XXIX, 1895, pp. 192, 193. [Notice of Dubois' memoir on Pithecanthropus. May belong to Homo neanderthalensis.]
  • Cope, E.D. 1859: Modern Systematic Writers. Amer. Nat. Vol. XXIX, 1895, p. 345.
  • Cope, E.D. 1859: [The Endowment of Original Research.] Amer. Nat. Vol. XXIX, 1895, pp. 345, 346. [Unsigned editorial. Cited hy Frazer.]
  • Cope, E.D. 1859: The Classification of the Ophidia. Trans. Amer. Pliilos. Soc. n. s. Vol. XVIII, 1894, pp. 186-219, Pis. XIV-XXXIII.
  • Cope, E.D. 1859: 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].
  • Cope, E.D. 1860: Notes and Descriptions of Foreign Reptiles. Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila. Vol. XI, 1859, pp. 294-297.
  • Cope, E.D. 1860: Catalogue of the Venomous Serpents in the Museum of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, with Notes on the families, genera and species. Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila. Vol. XI, 1859, pp. 332-347.
  • Cope, E.D. 1861: Notes and descriptions of anoles. Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, 13: 208-215.
  • Cope, E.D. 1863: Contributions to Neotropical saurology. Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, 14 [1862]: 176-188.
  • Cope, E.D. 1864: Contributions to the herpetology of tropical America. Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, 16: 166-181.
  • Cope, Edward Drinker (1870). "On the skull of dicynodont Reptilia. Lystrosaurus frontosus from Cape Colony". Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society, 11: 419.
  • 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, Edward Drinker (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, Edward Drinker (1878). "On the Vertebrata of the Dakota Epoch of Colorado". Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society, 17 100: 233–247.
  • Cope, Edward Drinker (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, Edward Drinker (1889). "On a new genus of Triassic Dinosauria". The American Naturalist, 23: 626.
  • 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. [Including a new ophidian genus, Trimerodytes, and a synopsis of the genera of Natricinae.]

Authored Taxa [edit]

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