EUROPEAN MIOCENE AND PLIOCENE STRATA. 



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new evidence may be brought forward about the numerous other 

 species which are only known to me by obscure fragments. 



II. Classification. 



The antlers denned in the following pages may conveniently be 

 grouped together under the head of (1) Capreoli, or Eoe-like, (2) 

 Axeidae or Eastern Deer, of the type of the Axis and Busa, and (3) 

 Deer incertce sedis, which I am unable to bring into close rela- 

 tion with any living forms. They are represented by the following 

 species : — 





Name. 





Formation. 





f 1. Dicroceros elegans, 



Lartet. 



Middle Miocene. 





—Prox furcatus, 



Hensel. 



Miocene. 





2. Cervus dicranoceros 



Kaup. 



Upper Miocene. 





= C. anoceros, 







1. CArREOLI. ■ 



= C. trigonoceros, 



„ 







3. C. australis, 



De Serres. 



Lower Pliocene 





4. C. Matheroni, 



Gervais. 



Upper Miocene. 





= C. Bravardi, 



Bravard, MS. 







^5. C. cusanus, 



Croizet and Jobert. 



Pliocene. 





f 6. Cervus perrieri, 



Oroizet and Jobert. 



Upper Pliocene 





= C. issiodorensis, 



>> 







= C. pardinensis, 









7. 0. etueriarum, 



„ 



)> 



2. AxEIDjE ... ■i 



= C. rusoides, 



Pomel. 







== C. perollensis, 



Bravard. 







= C> stylodus, 



,, 



j> 





8. C. suttonensis, 



Dawkins. 



Pliocene. 





9. C. cylindroceros, 



J5 



Upper Pliocene. 





v = C. gracilis, 



>■> 





3. Incertce "1 



SEDIS. J 



10. C. tetraceros, 



Dawkins. 



Upper Pliocene 



III. The Capreoli. 

 A. Dicroceros elegans, Cervus dicranoceros, 0. australis. 



The Deer comprised under this head possess antlers similar to 

 those of the living Muntjak (Cervulus) and Roe (Capreolus), which 

 are short, round, and generally perched on a long pedicle. The 

 crown is either simply forked or composed of short confluent 

 tynes. 



The first antler-bearing Deer which appears in the geological 

 record is the Dicroceros elegans (Lartet)* of the Middle Miocene of 

 Sansan and Simorre, in which the antler is composed of a simple fork 

 springing close to the burr, and crowning the summit of a long and 

 slender pedicle like that of the Muntjak. Similar antlers have been 

 met with in the Canton of St. Donnat (Brome) and La Grive, St. 

 Albans (lsere), and are preserved in the geological collection in the 



* Lartet, ' Notice sur la Colline de Sansan, 

 p. 88, and t. v. p. 131. 



p. 34 ; ' Comptes Rendns,' t. iv. 



