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Mount Lyell Salamander
The Mount Lyell salamander (''Hydromantes platycephalus'') is a species of web-toed salamander in the family Plethodontidae. This species was first observed on Mount Lyell in Yosemite National Park in 1915, during the Yosemite Natural History Survey conducted by the California Museum of Vertebrate Zoology. It is endemic to the Sierra Nevada mountains of California in the United States. It is found in a range of high elevation microhabitats, such as rock exposures, talus and rock fissures, and under rocks or in caves or crevices. Its altitudinal range is above sea level. No significant threats to this species are known. Description The Mount Lyell salamander has a flat, slender body with short legs and a stubby tail that are a deep brown-black in color with dorsal grey-green mottling. In juveniles, the mottling is usually more gold-green in color, but there is wide variation among individuals. Populations tend to have mottling that matches the color of the granite in the region. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Charles Lewis Camp
Charles Lewis Camp (March 12, 1893 – August 14, 1975) was an American Palaeontology, palaeontologist and Zoology, zoologist, working from the University of California, Berkeley. He took part in excavations at the 'Placerias Quarry', in 1930 and the forty ''Shonisaurus'' skeleton discoveries of the 1960s, in what is now the Berlin-Ichthyosaur State Park. Camp served as the third director of the University of California Museum of Paleontology from 1930 to 1949, and coincidentally as chair of the UC Berkeley Paleontology Department between 1939 and 1949. Camp named a number of species of marine reptiles such as ''Shonisaurus'' and ''Plotosaurus'', as well as the dinosaur ''Segisaurus''. Early life Charles Lewis Camp was born on March 12, 1893, in Jamestown, North Dakota. His father was a U.S. district attorney and amateur geologist. He was raised in Sierra Madre, California, where he met zoologist Joseph Grinnell, with whom he would study and travel with as a teenager. His later s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
