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THE CAT. 



[CHAP. xn. 



A long known fossil form, PSEUD JELURUS* (of which several 

 species have been described), is from the upper miocene of France 

 and North America. 



This animal had an additional lower premolar, so that there were 



A. Skull of Hoploplioneus oreodontis Cope). 



Fig. 185. 

 13. Grinding surfaces of right upper molar and sectorial. 



Fig. 186. SKULL OF Nimravus "bracliyops (Cope), PROM OREGON 



three premolars and one sectorial molar in the lower jaw. The 

 lower sectorial has but a rudimentary heel. 



* Gervais, Paleontologie Fran(jaise, 



&232 ; see also Leidy's Mammals of 

 ebraska and Dakota in Journal of 

 Academy of Natural Sciences of Phila- 

 delphia, vol. vii., p. 52, plate 1, fig. 8 ; 



see also Filhol, in Annales des Sciences 

 Geologiques, vol. vii., p. 158. The Felis 

 quadridentata, of De Blainville belongs to 

 this genus. 



