1856.] OWEN RED CRAG MAMMALS. 227 



As the strata of the Red Crag at that village, from which the 

 mammalian fossils originally determined by me* were obtained, 

 were traversed by vertical fissures, Sir Charles Lyell in his descrip- 

 tion of the formation remarks : — " It might be suggested, that the 

 mammalian relic was possibly derived from the contents of one of 

 the fissures, the filling of which was an event certainly posterior, and 

 perhaps long subsequent, to the era of the deposition of the cragf.'* 



The subsequent discovery of a feline carnassial tooth of the same 

 size, and apparently species, as that of the Felis pardoides, adds 

 satisfactorily to the high probability — founded upon the original 

 feline tooth having undergone the same process of trituration and im- 

 pregnation with colouring matter as the associated bone and teeth of 

 fishes known to be from the regular strata of the Red Crag — that the 

 Felis pai'doides is a fossil of that period. The Felis antediluviana 

 of Kaup, from the miocene sand at Eppelsheim, and the Felis par- 

 dinensis of Croizet and Jobert, from the miocene strata of Auvergne, 

 correspond in size with the Felis pardoides of the Red Crag of 

 Suffolk. 



The lower sectorial tooth, fig. 20, deviates from the feline type, 

 and approaches that of the carnassial in the Glutton, Hyesna, and 

 Grison ; but with a minor development of the hinder tubercle, and 

 a major development of the outer cingulum. I suspect that we have, 

 in tliis tooth, an indication of an extinct osculant genus, linking on 

 the true Felines to the Hyaena or Musteline family. It closely re- 

 sembles one of the teeth of the Miocene Carnivora to which the 

 generic names Hycenodon and Pterodon have been given. 



Genus Canis. 



Three views (fig. 21) of a left upper carnassial tooth of a spe- 

 cies of Canis, agreeing in size and shape with that of the Wolf 

 {Canis Lupus), give an outside view, c ; «, an inside view ; and b, a 

 view of the fore part of the tooth, from which the two fangs, 

 outer and inner, of that part ascend. I am unable to detect any 

 character by which I could positively distinguish this tooth from that 

 of the existing Wolf, or of the species found in our bone-caves and 

 pleistocene deposits. The specimen presents the usual character's of 

 the crag-fossils, and was obtained from a crag-pit near Woodbridge. 

 A portion of the lower jaw of a species of Canis from the same pit 

 is figured at fig. 22, a, b. 



Genus Ursus. 



The Ursine genus is represented by an antepenultimate grinder (;f 

 the right side, upper jaw, of a Bear, somewhat smaller than the 

 corresponding tooth of the Ursus spelcEus. The fossil in question 

 was obtained by Mr. Colchester from the Red Crag at Newbourn, 

 near Woodbridge, Suffolk. The specimen is now in the collection of 

 the Rev. Edward Moore, of Bealings, near Woodbridge. 



* Ann. of Nat. Hist, vol, iv. 1840, p. 185. f lb. p. 186. 



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