CHAP. IV.] 



PLEIOCENE MAMMALIA IN BRITAIN. 



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Mastodon arvernensis, the Elephas meridionalis, and the 



bear of Auvergne. A deer allied to the axis, or spotted 



deer of India (Cervus suttonensis, Fig. 17), is one of 



the most abundant mammals of 



the Eed Crag, and it has been 



met with also in the French 



Pleiocenes; a second species of 



deer (Cervus falconeri), of an 



extinct type, has not been met 



with in any of the continental 



deposits. A third (C. issiodor- 



ensis, Fig. 12 a) is found also in 



France. There were also hyaenas 



and beasts of prey allied to the 



leopard. The Hipparion and 



FIG. 17. Cervus suttonensis, Dawk., Red Crag, Sutton, . 



the tapir and Hycenarctos, in the same strata, are as 

 likely to have been derived from the break up of strata 

 of the same age as the upper Meiocenes of Darmstadt 

 as from the destruction of the equivalents of the Pleio- 

 cenes of France and Italy. 



