R. H. Scott — Irish Fossil Mammalia. 413 



intermediate between the Neocomian and Kimmeridge clay of the 

 district. This being the case, there can be little doubt that a con- 

 siderable mass of such Oolitic strata has been broken up by the 

 eastern drift ; and what is more interesting is that this very same 

 action was going on at the time that the Greensand sea spread its 

 numerous Brachiopoda over the Upware shore ; then, as in the far 

 later period, this Portlandian deposit furnished its fossil Terehratula, 

 such as those from Upware, to mix with the reptiles from the Kim- 

 meridge below and the yet recent shells and the bits and pebbles 

 from all the northern coast-line. 



EXPLANATION OF FIGURES (page 412). 



Fig. 1. Terehraiula rex, Lankester, from "Drift" Gravel-pit, Thorpe, Suffolk, in 

 the collection of Mr. Eoper, Lowestoft. 

 ,, 1«. Side view of same. 

 „ 2. T. rex, from Upware, in the collection of Mr. Earwaker, Merton CoUege, 



Oxford. 

 „ 3. T. rex, Herrmiere on the Cam, near Upware. 



„ 4. T. ovoides, Sby. "Drift" Stow-Bardolph, Downham. Collected by C. B. 

 Eose, Esq., and presented to the British Museum. 

 (All natural size.) 



V. — Catalogue of the Mammalian Fossils which have been 



HITHERTO discovered IN IRELAND.^ 



By Egbert H. Scott, M.A., F.E.S. 



[Note. — In the June Number of the Geological Magazine for the present year, 

 page 253, we published an article by Prof. Harkness, P.R.S., " On the occurrence of 

 Elephant-remains in Ireland." Having since had our attention directed to the sub- 

 joined paper by Mr. Eobert H. Scott, F.E.S. , we have requested and obtained the 

 author's permission to publish it in our Journal, as we believe it to be the only Cata- 

 logue of Irish Fossil Mammalia extant, and it well deserves to be more widely 

 knovm. — Edit. Geol. Mag.] 



INASMUCH as the subject of the Fossil, or rather Sub-Fossil 

 Mammalia of Ireland, has been brought rather prominently 

 before the notice of the Society during the past two sessions, I have 

 considered that it might not be devoid of interest to our members, if 

 I were to place on record the various genera and species of that class 

 of which remains have been hitherto found in Ireland. Such a com- 

 munication as this does not make any claim to originality, and I shall 

 endeavour, as far as I can, to give my authority for every statement 

 of a fact which will be embodied in this Catalogue. The chief sources 

 from which the information has been derived are Dr. Scouler's papers, 

 in our " Journal," and those by Dr. Ball and Sir W. Wilde, in the 

 " Proceedings of the Eoyal Irish Academy." 



The following list contains those of which notices remain on record :* 



1. Ursus arctos. 3. Ursus maritimus. 



2. spelcBus. 4. Canis lupus. 



1 Anpendix to the Annual Eeporfc for 1864, read before the Geological Society of 

 Dublin, February 10, 1864. 



2 For a list of British Fossil Mammalia, etc., see paper by H. "Woodward, entitled 

 " Man and the Mammoth ; being an account of the animals found associated with 

 early man in prehistoric times." Geol. Mag., 1869, Vol. VI., p. 68. — Edit. 



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