MAMMALIA OF EOCENE PERIOD. 



73 



mated nature, and place these extinct genera in close con- 

 nexion with the living orders of Mammalia. 



We may estimate the number of the animals collected in 

 the gypsum of Mont Martre, from the fact, stated by Cuvier, 

 that scarcely a block is taken from these quarries which 

 does not disclose some fragment of a fossil skeleton. Mil- 

 lions of such bones, he adds, must have been destroyed, be- 

 fore attention was directed to the subject. 



The subjoined list of fossil animals found in the gypsum 

 quarries of the neighbourhood of Paris, affords important 

 information as to the population of this first lacustrine por- 

 tion of the tertiary series.* (See PI. 1. Figs. 73 to 96.) 



* List of Vertebral Animals found in the Gypsum of the Basin 

 OF Paris. 



r Palseotherium . 



_, , , . ! Anonlotherium . 



Paehydermata < ^, ' 



I Cheropotamus . 



\^Adapis . . . 

 r Bat. 



} Extinct species, of extinct 

 genera. 



Ca rnivora 



Marsupialia 



Rodentia 



Birds 



Reptiles 



Fishes . . . 

 VOL. I. 



•<^ 



Canis 



Large Wolf, differing from any exist- 

 ing species. 

 Fox. 

 Coatis (Nasua, Storr,) large Coati, now native of 



tlie warm parts of America, 

 Racoon (Procyon, Storr,) North America. 

 Genette (Genetta, Cuv., Viverra Genetta, Linn.,) 

 now extending from the South of Europe to 

 v.. Cape of Good Hope. 

 Opossum, small (Didelphis, Linn.,) allied to the 



Opossum of North and South America. 

 Dormouse (Myoxus, Gm.,) two small species. 

 Squirrel (Sciurus.) 

 " Birds, nine or ten species, referable to the fol- 

 lowing genera : Buzzard, Owl, Quail, Wood- 

 cock, Sea-Lark (Tringa,) Curlew, and Peli- 

 can. 



Fresh-water Tortoises, Trionyx, Emys. 

 Crocodile. 



H 



Seven extinct species of extinct Genera. 



Agass. 



