EODENTIA. 209 



Order RODENTIA. 

 Suborder RODENTIA SIMPLICWENTATA. 



There is but one pair of incisors developed in the upper jaw. 



Section SCIUROMOEPHA. 



Family SCIUBmE. 

 Dentition:-!. J, C. Pm. ( ^>, M. J. 



Genus SCIURUS, Linn. 1 

 (Including Palaosciurus, Pomel 2 .) 

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



&ctunuf fcuigartS, Linn. 3 ' 

 Hob. Europe and Northern Asia. 



17644. The right humerus ; from the Forest-bed of Ostend, Nor- 



(Fig.) folk. This specimen is figured by E. T. Newton in the 



Geol. Mag. dec. 2, vol. viii. p. 259 (1881), and in the Mem. 



Geol. Surv. Eng. " Vertebrata of Forest-bed Series," p. 92, 



pi. xiv. fig. 12 (1882). Green Collection. Purchased, 1843. 



Sciurus feignouxi, Pomel 4 . 



Syn. Palccosdurus feignouxi, Pomel 5 . 



Spermophilus speciosus, H. v. Meyer 6 (teste Schlosser). 



Hah. Europe. 



26713. The greater portion of the right ramus of the mandible, 

 showing all the cheek-teeth except the first true molar; 

 from the Lower Miocene of St. Gerand-le-Puy (Allier), 

 France. This specimen is precisely similar to a mandible 

 figured by Filhol in the Ann. Sci. Geol. vol. x. pi. iv. 

 figs. 14, 15. Pomel Collection. Purchased, 1851. 



1 Syst. Nat. ed. 12, vol. i. p. 86 (1766). 



2 Catalogue MSthodique, p. 17 (1853). 



3 Syst. Nat. ed. 12, vol. i. p. 86 (1766). 



In P. Gervais, Zool. et Pal. Fran^aises, 1st ed., explanation of pi. xlvii. 

 p. 7 (1848-52). 



8 Catalogue Methodique, p. 17 (Ib53). " Neues Jahrb. 1859, p. 474. 



