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the anterior and posterior inner being fused together, the median 

 very large and sometimes fused with the posterior inner, and the 

 outer tritor much elongated, consisting of laminae. Vomerine tooth 

 broad, with several closely-arranged, laminated tritors. 



Elasmodus hunteri, Egerton. 



1840. ' Extinct Chimcera,' R. Owen, Odontography, vol. i. p. 66. 

 1843. JElasmodus hunteri, Sir P. Egerton, Proc. Geol. Soc. vol. iv. 



p. 156. 

 1847. Elasmodus hunteri, Sir P. Egerton, Quart. Journ. Geol. Soc. 



vol. iii. p. 351. 

 1850. Elasmodus hunteri, F. Dixon, Foss. Sussex, p. Ill, pi. x. figs. 11, 



12. 

 1852. Elasmodus hunteri, Sir P. Egerton, Figs, and Descrips. Brit. 



Organic Remains (Mem. Geol. Surv.), dec. vi. no. 1, pi. i. 

 1885. Elasmodus hunteri, F. Noetling, Abh. geol. Specialk. Preussen 



u. Thuring. Staaten, vol. vi. pt. 3, p. 11, pi. i. figs. 2, 3, pi. ii. 



fig. 6. 



Type. Mandibular tooth and theoretically associated vomerine 

 tooth ; Royal College of Surgeons. 



The type species. Inner tritor of mandibular tooth at least as 

 broad as the space between it and the symphysis, sometimes much 

 broader. Median and outer tritors of the palatine tooth extremely 

 elongated antero-posteriorly. 



Form. Sf Loc. Lower Eocene (London Clay) : Isle of Sheppey. 

 Middle Eocene (Bracklesham Beds): Sussex. Eocene (Zone A,) : 

 Samland, Prussia. 



(i.) London Clay ; Isle of Sheppey. 

 40203. Left mandibular tooth. Purchased, 1867. 



43110. Similar specimen, less abraded. Wetherell Coll. 



44910. Imperfect right mandibular tooth. 



Presented by Sir Richard Owen, K.C.B , 1874. 



P. 161. Small abraded left mandibular tooth. Purchased, 1880. 



P. 6227. Abraded left palatine tooth. History unknown. 



P. 3080 a. Imperfect right palatine tooth. Enniskillen Coll. 



P. 1157 a. Left vomerine tooth. Egerton Coll. 



(ii.) Bracklesham Beds ; Bracklesham Bay, Sussex. 

 P. 6228. Small left mandibular tooth, figured by Egerton, op. cit. 

 (1852), pi. i. figs. 3, 4. Dixon Coll 



