FOSSIL FAUNA. 



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PLATE LXXI. 



Fossil Remains of Mammalia. 



Fig. I. " a fossil tooth, probably of some animal of the whale kind." — Mr. Parkinson. I am not 

 able to determine the nature of this specimen. 



Fio. 2. The antlers and skull of the Fossil Elk, of Ireland, {Megaceros Hibernicus.) The original 

 was nearly eleven feet across, from the point of one antler to another. A perfect 

 skeleton of this extinct gigantic deer is exhibited in the Gallery of Organic Remains 

 in the British Museum. For an account of this animal see "Wonders of Geology, 

 vol. i. p. 132; and Supplementary Notes, p. 189. Ihe following measurements of the 

 specimen figured are given by Mr. Parkinson ; 



a tob . 



c to d . 



e to / , 



g to h . 



i to k 



dtol 



Diameter of the horn at m 



Circumference, „ 



J, at the root 



Length of the cranium from n to o 

 "Width „ „ ptoq 



" A similar pair, found ten feet under ground in the county of Clare, was presented to 

 Charles the Second, and placed in the guard-room of Hampton Court Palace." 

 Fig. 3. Fragment of the fossil horn of some species of Cervus or Deer, from Etampes, in France. 

 FrG. 4. Two teeth of a ruminant, (a species of Bos or Ox,) in breccia, from Gibraltar.' 



The remaining figures. Figs. 5, 6, 7, 8, represent the worn surfaces of molars or grinding teeth 

 of the extinct species of Elephants termed Mammoths, {Elephas primigenius, of M. Bojanus.) 

 Fig. 9, shows the structure of part of the tooth. 



These were regarded by Mr. Parkinson as referable to two or more species of Mammoth ; but 

 Professor Owen, after an examination of the vast number of specimens that modern researches 

 have brought to light, and which are deposited in the public and private collections of Great 

 Britain, concludes that the specimens here figured belong to but one species. The differences 

 observable in the surface of the crowns, are due to abrasion, and to the latitude of variety to 

 which the highly complex molars of this extinct Elephant were subject.' 



1 Wonders of Geology, vol. i. p. 186. ^ British Association, Report for 1843. 



For an account of the Mastodon and Mammoth, see Wonders of Geology, vol. i. pp. 151 — 161. 



Fossil Mammalia, p. 213. 



