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‘AuDRY, A.—“ Sur quelques indices de V existence d’ Hdentés de ’ Epoque Miocene.”’ Comptes 
Xendus, Vol. LXXXI, pp. 1036-1038. 
“The phosphorites of the neighborhood of Caylus, in which MM. Gervais, Filhol, 
and Delfortrie have already discovered fossils of many various types, have recently 
furnished proofs of the existence of an animal, which evidently belonged to the order 
of Edentates. Representatives of this order have not yet been observed in any for- 
mation as old as this. 
The determination of the Edentate from the phosphorites is based upon only two 
fragments, but these two fragments are very characteristic. They are a first phalanx 
and an ungual phalanx, which appear to belong to the same digit. The first phalanx 
is 3.5 em. long; its metatarsal articulating surface lies obliquely in such a way that the 
digit could be raised toward the metatarsal. The articulating surface corresponding 
to the second phalanx is likewise oblique. The ungual phalanx is 2.4 cm. in length by 
1.3 cm. in width. The surface by which it articulates with the second phalanx is 
prolonged a little in its upper portion and thus indicates that there was less play for 
extension than for flexion. The ungual phalanx had in front a deep median fissure 
through which, without doubt, as in the Pangolins, there passed a corneous cushion 
uniting the upper surface of the claw to its lower surface, whence we may conclude 
that the claws were large and solid. Although the claw was hooked, the animal would 
not have been incommoded in its gait because of the power which the first phalanx 
had to throw itself back upon the metatarsal. 
Typotherium and certain Ungulates (notably Paloplotheriwm minus) have a fissure 
on their ungual phalanges, but the form and manner of union of the phalanges are 
entirely different from what is seen in the specimen from the phosphorites. The 
Edentates of the genus Pangolin, which have a cloven phalanx, can only to a small 
degree retract their first phalanges toward the metacarpals and metatarsals. In the 
case of the sloths the first phalanx articulates by a ginglymus with the metacarpals 
and the metatarsals, even coalescing with them. In the case of Orycteropus and the 
armadillos the digits are not hooked. The ant-eaters and the fossil Gravigradentia of 
America have digits allowing a very great degree of flexion, but the first phalanges are 
scarcely able to draw back toward the metacarpals and metatarsals. 
It is only in the little group of fossil Edentates from Europe for which Professor 
Gervais has suggested the name of the Macrotheriide that there is seen a disposition of 
the digits analogous to that presented by these specimens which I am calling to the 
attention of the Academy. The Macrotheriide include the genera Macrotheriwm and 
Ancylotherium. I provisionally assign the Edentate from the phosphorites to the 
latter genus, giving it the name priscwm to distinguish it from Ancylotherium Pentelict. 
The phalanges of Ancylotherium priscum display notable differences from the fore feet 
of the species from Pikermi. They have points of resemblance with the feet of the 
latter species, nevertheless they are easy to distinguish. They are not one-fourth of 
