MEGALOHTEAX EOC^NUS. 



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The basal portion of the skiill is greatly crushed, but it can be seen that the 

 condyles nearly meet below in the middle line ; in front of them the basioccipital bears 

 on either side a sharp ridge ; anteriorly the basicranial axis is much contracted. The 

 glenoid surface, formed entirely by the squamosal, is very broad and flat. 



Text-fig. 39. 

 soc. 



Posterior portion of skull of ? Megaldhyraxi eocoenus : A, from above ; B, from behind. 

 cond., occipital condyles ; f.ni., foramen magnum ; fr., frontals ; pa., parietals ; pgl., postglenoid process ; 

 p.orb., temporal (postorbital) ridge ; p.p., paroccipital process ; s.c, sagittal crest ; soc, supraoccipital ; 

 sq., squamosal. 



\ nat. size. 



Comparison of this skull with recent forms shows that, not only in the shape 

 of the frontal region but also in that of the paroccipital processes and their relations 

 to the squamosal, as well as in the structure of the glenoid surface, it is very like the 

 skull of Ilyrax (Procavia) validus. 



M. 8502. Eight maxilla with canine, premolars, and molars. The type specimen described and 

 figured in the Geol. Mag. [4] vol. x. (1903), pp. 339-341, fig. 1, and also on PI. VI. fig. 2. 

 On the whole the teeth are in a good state o£ preservation, but portions of the ectoloDh 



