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Search - Catalogue Of The Fossil Mammalia In The British Museum (Natural History) - Part II

Catalogue Of The Fossil Mammalia In The British Museum - Part II - Natural History
Author: Various

PREFACE. THE first part of this Catalogue, published in January last, con- tained the specimens belonging to the Orders PEIMATES, CHTROPTERA, INSECTIVORA, CARNIVORA, and RODENTIA. The present part is devoted to the Order UNGULATA, Sub-order ARTIODACTYLA. Of this sub- order the Bovidce, Cervidce, and the Anoplofheriidce have especially required m... more »uch careful study and revision nor have the other groups been catalogued without a very large expenditure of time and labour. In this task the author has been greatly assisted by Mr. William Davies, whose intimate knowledge of the history of the Collection is coeval with the acquisition of at least a large proportion of the specimens composing it. The Perissodactyla and allied forms, and the Probosoidea, Sirenia, Cetacea, Edentata, and Marsupialia still remain to be catalogued. It may be well to state here that these Catalogues do not in any way lay claim to be complete lists of all the fossil genera and species, but only of such as are represented in the Collection. British Museum Natural History, Department of Geology, Nov. 20, 1885. HENKY WOODWARD INTRODUCTION. As a full Introduction has been given to the First Part, it is only necessary on the present occasion to add a few supplemental remarks. In order to avoid extending the Catalogue to an unreasonable length, it has been considered advisable to omit all reference to the majority of the specimens contained in the Cavern CoDection, at the entrance to the Fossil Mammalian Gallery, as, in most instances, these are but duplicates of specimens from other localities. For the same reason, in cases where the number of specimens of the remains of any one species is excessively numerous, only the more important of such specimens have been introduced into the Catalogue. Similarly, in cases like the Siwaliks of India and the French Phosphorites, where there are great numbers of species of Artio- dactyle Ungulates, and it is very often apparently impossible to refer individual bones even to their respective genus, such specimens have not been catalogued here, as nothing would be gained by so doing. Mention may be made of a few fossil localities noticed in the present part, which are not given in the table on pages x, xi of Part I. but before doing so, it may be observed that the position of the Georgensgmiind beds as given in that table should be transferred Miocene to section 6 of the Middle Miocene 2 . The from the Upper Lower Pliocene of Cucuron Vaucluse is equivalent to that of Mont Leberon. The beds at Elgg Zurich, Switzerland, correspond to those of Kapfuach. From the comparatively unaltered condition of many of the specimens in the Museum, and the circumstance that 1 Misprinted Georgensmiind. 3 These beds were classed with those of Eppelsheim and Eningen, on the Schlosser in the Palseontographica, ground that they were so placed by vol. rxxi. p. 96 1884, who has subsequently Neues Jahrb. 1885, vol. ii. pp. 136-144 indicated their true position. INTRODUCTION. they apparently belong to existing species, the beds at La Combette, near Champeix page 97, and those at Tour-de-Boulade, Puy-de- Dome Part I. p. 126, are provisionally referred to the Pleistocene, but they may be equivalent to the Upper Pliocene of Peyrolles, with which they were associated by P. Gervais. Generic terms have been employed in a wider sense than is the case with many contemporary writers and I am permitted to say that my views in this respect are in the main those of Professor Flower...

ISBN-13: 9781406780482
ISBN-10: 1406780480
Publication Date: 9/10/2007
Pages: 348
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