PROCEEDINGS 



OF THE 



ACADE3IY OF NATURAL SCIENCES 



OF 



PHILADELPHIA. 



NEW SERIES. 



PART I. 18tl. 



January 3, 1871. 



Mr. Wm. S. Yaux, Yice-President, in the chair. 



Twenty-four members present. 



The following paper was presented for publication : — 



'' Xotes on the JSTatural History of Fort Macon, X. C, and 

 vicinity. No. 1." B3' Elliott Coues. 



Professor 0. C. Marsh, of Yale College, exhibited a tooth of a 

 new species of Lophiodon^ from the Miocene of New Jersey, whicli 

 was the first indication yet discovered of remains of the Tapiridoe 

 on the Atlantic coast, or of the genus Lophiodon in this countrj^, 

 east of the Rocky Mountain region. The tooth, which was in a 

 perfect state of preservation, was the first true molar of the left 

 upper jaw. It measured across the crown seven lines in antero- 

 i:)osterior diameter, and eight and one-quarter lines in transverse 

 diameter. This would indicate an animal intermediate in size 

 between L. occidenfalis and L. modesfus of Dr. Leidy. From the 

 latter species it may .readily be distinguished by the enamel of 

 the crown, which is smooth and not wrinkled. As this species is 

 evidently distinct from any described. Professor Marsh proposed 

 for it the name Lophiodon validiis. The specimen was found in 

 the miocene marl of Cumberland County, New Jersey, and appa- 



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