THE 



GEOLOGICAL MAGAZINE. 



NEW SERIES. DECADE IV. VOL. IX. 



No. X.— OCTOBER, 1902. 



os-iC3-iisrjLXj j^iaTiciiES. 



I. — Note on a Pliocene Vertebrate Fauna from the Wadi- 

 Natrun, Egypt. 



By C. W. Andrews, D.Sc, F.G.S., British Museum (Natural History). 



(PLATE XXI.) 



AMONG the collections received from the Egyptian Survey for 

 determination is a number of vertebrate remains, chiefly 

 mammalian, from the Wadi-Natrun, whence they were obtained by 

 Captain Lyons, the Director-General of the Survey, and by Messrs. 

 Beadnell and Blanckenhorn, members of his staff. Last year, on 

 my return from Mogara with Mr. T. Barron, I was able to collect 

 for a few hours on the hill called Gart-el-Moluk, from which most 

 of these fossils were obtained, and found a few additional fragments. 

 Finally, Dr. Studer, of the Berne Museum, has very kindly lent me 

 the collection he received from the same locality, and has himself 

 described in some detail.^ I believe, therefore, that a great part 

 of the specimens from this locality are now in my hands. Un- 

 fortunately in most cases the remains are in a very fragmentary 

 condition and little can be made of them, but there are a few well- 

 preserved teeth and limb bones which indicate the existence of 

 a fauna of considerable interest, and are sufficient to show that the 

 locality will probably yield good results to a systematic search. At 

 present the collections include remains of a small Hippopotamus, 

 a Eipparion, a small pig-like animal, and various Antelopes. In the 

 present note I propose to give a short account of the more important 

 of these specimens. 



Eipparion. (PI. XXI, Fig. 1.) 



Eipparion is represented in the collection by a very well-preserved 

 left upper premolar (?p.m. 4). The enamel is extremely complexly 

 folded, and in this respect the tooth closely resembles that of 



1 "Ueber fossile Knochen vom "Wadi-Natrun, Unteregypteu " : Mittheil. d. 

 Naturforsch. Gesellscliaft in Bern, 1898 (1899), p. 72. 



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