FAUNA AXTIQUA SIVALEXSIS. 



IX. ON SOME FOSSIL EEMAINS OF ANOPLOTHE- 

 EIUM AND GIEAFFE, FROM THE SEWALIK 

 HILLS.i 



BY H. FALCONER, M.D., AND CAPT. P. T. CAUTLET. 



In contiiiuation of their former researclies on tlie fossil 

 remains of the Sewalik hiUs, the authors, in. their present 

 communication, establish, on the clear evidence of anatomi- 

 cal comparison, certain discoveries which, in previous pub- 

 lications, they had either merely announced, or had supported 

 by proofs professedly left incomplete. They now demonstrate 

 that there occur in the remarkable tertiary deposits of the 

 Sewalik range, together with the osseous remains of various 

 other vertebrate animals, bones belonging to the two genera, 

 Anoplotherium and Giraffe : the former genus determined by 

 Cuvier from parts of skeletons dug out from the gypsum 

 beds of Paris ; the latter genus known only as one of man's 

 contemporaries, until, in the year 1838, the authors gave 

 reason for believing its occurrence in the fossil state. 



The specimens now figured and described form part of the 

 collection which was made by the authors on the spot, and is 

 now deposited in the British Museum. They were found, 

 together with remains of Sivatherium, Camel, Antelope, 

 Crocodile, and other animals, in the Sewalik range to the 

 west of the river Jumna. 



The bones are found embedded either in clay or in sand- 

 stone. When clay is the matrix, they remain white ; and, 

 except in being deprived more or less completely of their 

 animal matter, they have undergone little alteration. The 

 bones in this state the authors have elsewhere designated as 

 the ' soft fossil.' When sandstone is the matrix the animal 

 matter has completely disappeared, and the bone is thoroughly 



' The memoir, of which this is an 

 abstract, was communicated to the Geo- 

 logical Society of London, on Nov. 16, 

 1843. The abstract and illustrations 

 are copied from the ' Proceedings,' No. 

 98. The Anoplotherium Sivalense was 

 afterwards described in a separate me- 

 moir, under the designation of Chalico- 

 therium Sivalense, to which the reader is 



referred. Subsequently to the publica- 

 tion of this memoir, the bones of tlie 

 anterior and posterior extremities of 

 Camelopardalis Sivalensis were disco- 

 vered, and were figured in an unpublished 

 plate of tlie Fauna Antiqua Sivalensis. 

 See descriptions of Plate E, and also 

 appendix to paper. — [Ed.] 



