Chilean specimen

Chilean specimen Bell, 1247 (BM) DQ219413 DQ219414 DQ222848 DQ219412 DQ219411 0 3 ... 

Sufficient material of Lepyrodon pseudolagurus and the Chilean specimen for morphological studies was not available and these taxa were pruned from the ML tree. Reconstruction of ancestral character states under MP was accomplished by mapping the morphological characters onto the pruned ML tree using MacClade 4.03 (Maddison and Maddison, 2001). 

When Berthier treated a specimen of this ore from the San Onofe Mine with an excess of hot ammonium hydroxide, he observed, mixed with the metallic silver, a green powder which had been only incompletely attacked. This was the circumstance, said he, which drew my attention to the ore from Plateros and which led me to realize that the substance which had been taken for silver chloride is pure bromide, without admixture of chloride or iodide, a substance which had not yet been met within the mineral realm and which therefore constitutes a new species (151). Berthier learned that this mineral is not rare in Mexico but is often found in beautiful cubic and octahedral crystals. He also found the same mineral at Huelgoeth, Department of Finistere, France, and discovered some of it among the Chilean silver minerals which Ignaz Domeyko, professor of chemistry at the College of Coquimbo, had sent to the School of Mines at Paris (151, 152). The mineral which Berthier analyzed was evidently bromyrite (silver bromide). 

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