Antediluvian Zoologi/. 



97 b 



sn 



' ■ rt, Rhinoceros : molar tooth, one third size, b, Hippopotaraus ; worn molar tooth. Also froiii 

 Kirkdale. 



Nearly forty species of extinct Pachydermata are found in 

 the upper deposits of the Paris environs. Among them are 

 numerous skeletons resembling tapirs and camels, some other 

 species of rhinoceroses and the new genus Palseotheria, and 

 three or four others. 



a b 9S c 



a. Molar tooth of ox, on a reduced scale ; b, molar tooth of large species of deer, upper jaw, full 

 size y c, molar tooth of horse, full size. Kirkdale. 



Solipedes. — Bones of the horse (^^quus) are found in similar 

 situations to the foregoing, and were therefore contempora- 

 neous with those extinct Pachydermata. 



Rumindntia, or Bisidca, are commonly associated with the 

 preceding. 



Remains of the ox, the aurochs or bison, and several species 

 of deer, were observed in the cave of Kirkdale. They have 

 been found in the marl of Northcliff' in the same county; 

 also above the crag beds of Suffolk, and in the peaty valleys 

 of Norfolk. They are often taken up by the oyster-dredgers 

 on the same coast. At Brentford, Ilford, Gravesend, and 

 ntimerous parts of the vale of Thames, they are abundant ; 

 in fact, they occur, more or less, in all the great diluvial 



