EUROPEAN MIOCENE AND PLIOCENE STRATA. 



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possess antlers (Brit. Mus.) of the same slender form and double 

 curvature. 



Measurements (inches). 





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1 









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CD J 



J- 



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r§ d* 



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d £ 



00 C3 



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1* 



4 



18 



1* 



P 



S 2 

 P 





o 



P 



o 



■+3 



p 



Total length 



31 + 



9 + 











11 + 







1-5 















Circumference of pedicle 



3-8 

















Basal circumference of antler 



4-5 



3-9 



3-9 



4-0 



3-5 



4-5 



34 



2-8 





90 



1-5 



HP 



V8 



1*4 



9-4 



fl-5 



1-6 



Fork of brow-tyne to fork of \ 

 second tyne J 



9-5 



60 







8-0 









Length of third tyne 



10-0 



















Formation.—- Upper Pliocenes of Auvergne, Chagny, and the Yal 

 d'Arno. 



D. Cervus suttonensis, Dawkins. (Figs. 7, 8, 9, 10.) 



A series of antlers in the British Museum from the Crag presents 

 characters which I am unable to identify with those of any species 

 on record, and which I have met with in nearly every collection of 

 Mammalia from the Crag in Norfolk and Suffolk which I have exa- 

 mined. In spite, therefore, of their fragmentary condition, I have 

 ventured to figure and describe them under the name of Cervus 

 suttonensis, because the two most perfect examples were obtained 

 from the Crag of Sutton. Three out of the four antlers chosen as 

 types are in the British Museum, and are more or less waterworn 

 and stained with peroxide of iron, like most of the remains of the 

 Mammalia with which they were associated. All those which I 

 have seen have been shed, and not torn forcibly away from the 

 head ; and all have lost the crown and the distal portion of the 

 beam. The specimens in the British Museum have been obtained 

 at Sutton, Felixstowe, and Woodbridge. Those communicated by 

 Mr. Bansome to Professor Owen, and assigned by him to the Mio- 

 cene Cervus dicranoceros of Kaup, were derived from the Bed Crag 

 of Sutton and Ipswich; those in Mr. Whincopp's collection from that 

 of "Woodbridge ; those in the Kev. J. Gunn's from the Norwich Crag 

 of Hor stead ; and those in Mr. Prestwich's from Sutton. 



DeJinition(G.g8. 7-10). — The base of the antler is cylindrical, and the 

 burr is very strongly marked and circumscribes the base in a plane 



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