Richard Lydekker

Richard Lydekker (July 25, 1849 London – April 16, 1915 Harpenden), British-Indian naturalist, geologist, palaeontologist and Fellow of the Royal Society.

Taxon names authored

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• 42 taxon names authored by Richard Lydekker

Eponyms

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• 3 eponyms of Richard Lydekker

Publications

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1876-80

• Lydekker, R. 1876–1880. Indian Tertiary and Post-Tertiary Vertebrata. Vol. I. Memoirs of the Geological Survey of India. Palaeontologia Indica 10: 1–300. BHL
  • Parts II. Descriptions of the molar teeth and other remains of Mammalia [1876], III. Crania of ruminants from the Indian Tertiaries [1878], IV. Supplement to the crania of ruminants [1880], V. Siwalik and Nabarda Proboscidia [1880]. Reference page. 

1881–84

• Lydekker, R. 1881–1884. Indian Tertiary and Post-Tertiary Vertebrata. Vol. II. Memoirs of the Geological Survey of India. Palaeontologia Indica 10: 1–363. HathiTrust
  • Parts I. Siwalik Rhinocerotidae [1881], II. Supplement to Siwalik and Narbaba Proboscidia [1881], III. Siwalik and Narbaba Equidae [1882], IV. Siwalik Camelopardalidae [1882], V. Siwalik Selenodont Suina [1883], VI. Siwalik and Narbaba Carnivora [1884]. Reference page. 

1884

• Lydekker, R. 1884. Siwalik and Narbada Carnivora. Palaeontologia Indica 2: 178–363. BHL Reference page. 

1889

• Nicholson, H.A. & Lydekker, R. 1889. A manual of palæontology for the use of students, with a general introduction on the principles of palaeontology, volume II. 3rd ed., Blackwood and Sons, Edinburgh / London: 889–1624 pp. Reference page. 

1890

• Lydekker, R. 1890. Catalogue of the fossil Reptilia and Amphibia in the British Museum (Natural History). Part IV. Containing the orders Anomodontia, Ecaudata, Caudata, and Labyrinthodontia; and supplement. London: British Museum (Natural History). BHL Reference page. 

1891

• Lydekker, R. 1891. Catalogue of the fossil birds in the British Museum (Natural History). British Museum (Natural History): London. BHL DOI: 10.5962/bhl.title.8301 Reference page. 

1893

• Lydekker, R. 1893. On the extinct giant birds of Argentina. Ibis 5: 40-47. BHL Reference page. 

1894

• Lydekker, R. "1893" [1894?]. Contributions to a Knowledge of the Fossil Vertebrates of Argentina [Contribuciones al Conocimiento de los Vertebrados Fósiles de la Argentina]. 1.—The Dinosaurs of Patagonia [Los Dinosaurios de Patagonia]. 1–17. 2.—Cetacean Skulls from Patagonia [Cráneos de Cetáceos de Patagonia]. 1–13. 3.—A Study of the Extinct Ungulates of Argentina [Estudio Sobre los Ungulados Extinguidos de la Argentina]. 1–91. Anales del Museo de La Plata. Paleontología Argentina II. BHL Reference page. 

1895

• Lydekker, R. 1895. On bones of a sauropodous dinosaur from Madagascar. Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society of London 51(1–4): 329–336. DOI: 10.1144/gsl.jgs.1895.051.01-04.25 . BHL. Reference page. 

1903

• Lydekker, R. 1903. Local Variation in the Giraffe. Animal Life and the World of Nature: a magazine of natural history 2: 78–84, 121–122. BHL Reference page. 

1904

• Lydekker, R. 1904. On the subspecies of Giraffa camelopardalis. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 74(1): 202–227. DOI: 10.1111/j.1469-7998.1904.tb08288.x BHL Reference page. 

1906

• Lydekker, R. 1906. Descriptions of Two Mammals from the Ituri Forest. [With a Supplementary Note on the Buffalo of the Semliki District.] Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 992–996. BHL Reference page. 

1911

• Lydekker, R. 1911. Two Undescribed Giraffes. Nature 87(2189): 484. DOI: 10.1038/087484c0 BHL Reference page.