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                 Vol. I.      JULY, 1892        No. 1.

                    THE KANSAS UNIVERSITY QUARTERLY


                        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.




KANSAS PTERODACTYLS.


BY S. W. WILLISTON.

PART I, WITH PLATE I.

The first American species of the singular group of extinct Mesozoic
reptiles variously know as Ornithosaurs, Pterosaurs or Pterodactyls was
described by Marsh from a fragmentary specimen obtained in 1870, by the
Yale College Expedition in Wallace County, Kansas. About a dozen other
specimens were obtained by a similar expedition the following year in
charge of Professor Marsh, or by Professor Cope, and were described by
these authors shortly afterward. By far the largest number of known
specimens, however, other than those in the Kansas University Museum,
were obtained during the years 1874, ’75, ’76 and ’77 by parties of
which Professor Mudge, Dr. H. A. Brous, E. W. Guild, George Cooper and
myself were the members, and it was from these specimens that most
of the published characters were derived. Many of these specimens
are necessarily fragmentary ones, still the material now in the Yale
College Museum is ample to elucidate everything of interest concerning
these animals.

During the past few years, the Museum of Kansas University has been
enriched by a series of excellent specimens of these animals, obtained
from the same regions, specimens that permit the solution of most of
the doubtful characters and throw not a little light on the affinities
of the Kansas forms.

The species hitherto named are as follows:


PTERANODON.

     _Pteranodon_ Marsh, Amer. Journ. Sci. xi, p. 508,
        June 1876; and xii, p. 479, Dec. 1876; xxiii, p. 253,
        April, 1882; xxvii, p. 423, May, 1881; Williston,
        Amer. Naturalist, xxv, p. 1174, Dec. 1891

=Pteranodon occidentalis.=

     _Pterodactylus Oweni_ Marsh, Amer. Journ. Sci. i, p.
        472, June 1871, Sep. p. 16 (nom. preoc).

     _Pterodactylus occidentalis_ Marsh, Amer. Journ. Sci.
        iii, p. 242, April 1872, Sep. p. 1; Cope, Cretac.
        Vert. p. 68, pl. vii, ff. 5, 6.

     _Ornithocheirus harpyia_ Cope, Proc. Amer. Phil. Soc.
        1872, p. 471 (Cope).

This species was originally based upon the distal end of two
wing-metacarpals, and teeth. In the following year, a fuller
description was given of additional remains referred to the same
species and renamed _P. occidentalis_.

=Pteranodon ingens.=

     _Pterodactylus ingens_ Marsh, Amer. Journ Sci. iii, p.
        246, April 1872, Sep. p. 6.

     _Pteranodon ingens_ Marsh, Amer. Journ. Sci. xi, p.
