322 PALEONTOLOGY. 



MoscJius has two species in the iniocene of Germany, and 

 in the sub-apennine of Bengal. 



Camelopardalis, which now only exists in Asia, has left 

 remains of a smaller extinct species in the sub-apennine of 

 Prance. 



3rd Family. The CAMELIDE depart from the typical 

 form of ruminants in their dental formula, and in the 



FIG. 224. Fossil skull of a Kein-Deer. from a fissure in a quarry at Binstead, Isle 



Wight.* 



a, a. The osseous bases to which the antlers were attached. (One-third linear 

 of the natural size.) 



structure of their feet. They have six incisors in the lower 

 jaw, and two in the upper, two canines in each jaw, and from 

 twenty to twenty-two molars, instead of twenty-four. The 

 canon bones are more divided, and the feet are not so 

 much sulcate. A fossil genus, Mericotherium, has been 

 found in the glacial regions of Siberia. Fossil species of 

 two existing genera, as Auckenia, have been found in South 

 America, and Camelus in the sub-apennine stage of France, 

 Asia, and South America. 



3rd Order. PACHYDERMATA. The families of this 

 order played an important part in the tertiary period. 

 The extinct genera are numerous and remarkable, and afford 



* Mantell's Isle of Wight. 



