1907.] 



ELEPHANT KEMAINS FROM CRETE. 



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The whole specimen is about 263 mm. (nearly IQi inches) in 

 length ; the i-amus is robust, the greatest thickness in the portion 

 preserved being 112 mm., and its depth, measured in front of the 

 first molar, is about 126 mm. Its anterior border is very abrupt 

 owing to the advanced state of w^ear and consequent forward 

 position of the anterior of the two teeth. 



Unfortunately neither of these molars retains its full com- 

 plement of plates, which makes it impossible to determine with 

 absolute certainty their exact position in the seiies, for, as may be 

 seen by the specimens in the British Museum Collection, and has 

 been pointed out by Dr. Leith Adams*, the milk-teeth of this 

 species varied in size to a very great extent. However, it seems 

 certain that the specimens in question represent either the two 

 last milk-molars or the posterior of these and the first true molar. 



Text-fie-. 83. 



Right mandibular ramus of Elephas aniiquus (?) bearing two lower molars. 

 J iiat. size: 



The actual height of the foremost tooth (PI. XIII. fig. 3 and 

 text-fig. 83) is not shown, owing to the enveloping ramus ; it 

 consists of eight plates, but is extensively worn and projects 

 considerably beyond the edge of the alveolus, so it is likely that- 

 there may have been one, perhaps two, additional plates originally. 

 The present length of the crown, measuring along the median 

 line of the plates, is 92 mm., and its greatest width, which occurs 

 at the sixth of the plates present, is 47 mm., its height above the 

 ramus at the same place is 30 mm. The cement-areas are not so 

 wide as those of the following molar, but this is probably due to 

 difference in*vvear ; in neither is there any mesial expansion of the 

 plates. The enamel bands are rather thin and " wavy " in outline, 

 in both these respects differing from the specimens from Cape 

 Maleka. 



The second of the two teeth also shows eight plates, though it 



* Mon. Brit. Fossil Elephants, Pal. Soc. Loudon, 1877. 



