We report on measurements of differential cross sections d
sigma/d_pT for prompt charm meson production in p anti-p collisions at s**(1/2) =
1.96 TeV using 5.8 +/- 0.3 pb-1 of data from the CDF II detector at the
Fermilab Tevatron. The data are collected with a new trigger that is
sensitive to the long lifetime of hadrons containing heavy flavor. The
charm meson cross sections are measured in the central rapidity region |y|
\leq 1 in four fully reconstructed decay modes: D0 --> K- pi+, D*+ --> D0
pi+, D+ --> K- pi+ pi+, D+_s --> phi pi+, and their charge conjugates.
The measured cross sections are compared to theoretical calculations.
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