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Mustela sectoria, Gervais 1 . 

 Dentition : I. |, C. \, Pm. J, M. \. 

 Hob. France. 



27822. Portion of the cranium, in a much-crushed condition, but 

 exhibiting the palate and cheek-teeth; from the Lower 

 Miocene of Cournon (Puy-de-D6me), Prance. This spe- 

 cimen, together with the next, is the type of the species. 

 It is described by P. Gervais in the passage cited, and 

 also on page 250 of the 2nd edition of the same work. 

 " The carnassial has a length of 0,068, and the tuber- 

 cular molar is larger externally than internally, forming 

 a triangle of which the external border of the crown is 

 the base. This tooth is also remarkable by the presence 

 on the anterior border of a transverse subtrenchant 

 crest." The first premolar is very minute. 



Pomel Collection. Purchased, 1851. 



27816. The left ramus of the mandible, showing the outer aspect of 

 (Fig.} all the teeth; from the Lower Miocene of Cournon. This 



Pig. 26. 



Mustela sectoria. The left ramus of the mandible ; from the Lower Miocene of 

 Cournon, Puy-de-D6me. y. 



specimen is described with the last in the passages cited, 

 and is figured in the accompanying woodcut (fig. 26). 

 There are four premolars, the first of which is extremely 

 minute ; the space occupied by the six cheek-teeth is 

 0,019 ; the length of the carnassial is 0,0055, and that of 

 m72 0,002. Pomel Collection. Purchased, 1851. 



Mustela mustelina (Pomel 2 ). 

 Syn. Plesiogale mustelina, Pomel 3 . 



1 Zool. et Pal. Fra^aises, 1st ed., explanation of pi. xxviii. p. 10 (1848-52). 

 a Catalogue Methodique, p. 49 (1853), Plesiogale. 3 Loc. tit. 



