174 



FELID.E. 



CARNIVORA. 



FELID^E. 



Fig. 68. 



Macliairodus megantereon, ^ nat. size. Auvergne. 



Genus. MACHAIRODUS. 



Ursus cultridens, 

 Ursus trepanodon, 



Ursus cultMens Tssiodorensis, 

 Felis cultridens, 



Machairodus, 

 Steneodon, 

 Ursus cultridens, 



CUVIER, Ossemens Fossiles, 4to. 1824, vol. 



v. pt. ii. p. 517. 

 NESTI, Lettera terza del alcune ossa fossili 



non peranco descritte, al S. Prof. Paolo 



Savi, 8vo. Pisa, 1826. 

 CROIZET ET JOBERT, Ossemens fossiles du 



Puy-de-D6me, p. 200, 1828. 

 BRAVARD, Monographic de deux Felis 



d'Auvergne, p. 143, tab. iii. fig. 10, 13, 



1828. 

 KAUP, Description d'Ossemens Fossiles du 



Museum de Darmstadt, 2de Cahier, 1 833. 

 CROIZET, cited by Geoffroy in ' Revue En- 



cyclopedique,' torn. lix. 1833. 

 OWEN, Report of British Association, 1842. 



THE most remarkable of all the fossil teeth of large car- 

 nivorous Mammalia that have been hitherto discovered are 

 the long, curved, compressed canines, the crowns of which, 

 with finely serrated margins, more nearly resemble those of 



