AMPHITHERIUM. 49 
this conjecture a close examination of the dental and 
maxillary characters entirely disproves, 
The only inference which can be legitimately drawn from 
the remarkable fossil above described is that which the 
great Cuvier has left on record, viz., that it belonged to a 
small ferine Mammal * with a jaw much resembling that of 
an Opossum, but differing from all known ferine genera in 
the great number of the molar teeth, of which it had, at 
least, ten in a row. All that is now contended for in 
respect of the present fossil is, that it offers to the Com- 
parative Anatomist sufficient evidence of the accuracy of 
Cuvier’s conclusion. 
I next proceed to consider the additional proof which 
the subsequently discovered fossils from the same locality 
have afforded. 
Fig. 17. 
—K—- ee 
Dy ath errr reer 
(SA pe) ee 
Nat. size. 
AMPHITHERIUM PREVOSTII, No. 2. 
The above cut (No. 17) is copied from the figures of the 
second specimen of Amphitherium Prevostii, described in 
my Memoir in the Geological Transactions +: the outline 
gives the natural size, which corresponds precisely with 
that of the foregoing specimen (fig. 16): in the finished 
* T use the word ‘ ferine ’ as equivalent to the French ‘ carnassier,’ the term by 
which Cuvier signifies collectively the Cheiroptera, Insectivora, Carnivora, and 
Marsupialia. Helioce cits Pl. 5) heel). 
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