470 FAMILY PHOCID^. 



of a " Seal" found associated with those of Mastodon, Elephant, 

 Horse, Deer, Elk, etc., in the Post-pliocene deposits of Newbern, 

 North Carolina, in his description of his '^ 8us Americanus". 

 The specimens here referred to appear to have never been 

 described, and the only information we have respecting the 

 occurrence of Phocine remains at this locality is Dr. Harlan's 

 casual reference to the matter, as above indicated. 



2. Martha's Vineyard, Massachusetts. Sir Charles Lyell, in 

 a paper " On the Tertiary Strata of the Island of Martha's Vine- 

 yard in Massachusetts ", in enumerating the organic remains col- 

 lected by him at that locality, mentions,* under the head of 

 Mammalia, "A tooth, identilied by Prof. Owen as the canine 

 tooth of a Seal, of which the crown is punctured. It seems 

 nearly allied to the modern Gystophora prohoscidea". As no 

 description is given, its positive determination is impossible. 

 No other Seal remains, so far as known to me, have been found 

 at that locality. 



3. Richmond, Virginia. As will be presently noticed more 

 fully, some suj)posed Phocine remains were described by the 

 late Professor Wyman from the Tertiary deposits underlying 

 the city of Richmond, Virginia. They came from two local- 

 ities, and consisted of quite different materials. The specimens 

 are at present unknown, so that their reexamination is impos- 

 sible. A part of these remains were in all probability Squalo- 

 dont, while others may have been Phocine. A detailed account 

 of these specimens, with the original descriptions in full, is 

 given below, under the heading "'Plioca wymani ". 



4. South Berwick, Maine. Professor Wyman, in 1850,t re- 

 ferred briefly to some Seal bones found at South Berwick, 

 Maine, in "marine mud", at a depth of thirty feet from the sur- 

 face, in digging a well. They "j)roved to be an ulna and a 

 radius", but no description of them is given, they being men- 

 tioned simply as "bones of a Seal". Professor Leidy| has con- 

 jecturally referred them to Phoca grmnJandica. 



II. Squalodont Remains described as Phocine. No less than 

 three species referred originallj" to ''Phoca" are in all proba- 

 bility referable, in part or wholly, to Squalodon, as is more or 

 less exj)licitly admitted by their original describer. These are 

 Phoca wymani, P. debiliSj and P. modesta, of Leidy. The first 



"^Proc. Geol. Soc. Loud., vol. iv, 1843-1845, p. 32; Amer. Journ.Sci., vol. 

 xlvii, 1844, p. 319; Phil. Mag., vol. xxxiii, 1843, p. 188. 

 tAmer. Jouiu. Sci. aud Arts, ^d ser., vol. x, 1850, p. 230, footnote, 

 t Extinct Mam. N. Amer., 1869, p. 415. 



