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seems to contain a melange of broken-up beds of eocene, mio- 

 cene, and pliocene age * 



The cervine Euminants have been divided into groups 

 according to the forms of the antlers. Of the group with 



Fig. 125. 

 Megaceros Hibernicvs (Pleistocene marl). 



antlers expanded and flattened at top, of which the fallow-deer 

 (Dama) is the type, no fossil examples have been found in 

 Britain. Cuvier has described and figured antlers of great Bize 

 from the pliocene deposits of the valley of the Somme, near 



* Quarterly Jour, of the Geol. Soc, vol. xii., 1856, p 217, Ggs. I H6, 



