306 The American Naturalist. [April, 



Mountains above the waters of the Pacific. (Trans. Amer. Inst. Min- 

 ing Engineers.) 



The Eocene age of part of Florida was first asserted by Prof. Eugene 

 Smith of Alabama, and this conclusion was confirmed by paleontologic 

 data by Prof. Heilprin, of Philadelphia. Dr. W. H. Dall subsequently 

 delimited exactly the area of these beds with the Neocene and Plisto- 

 cene beds to the south, east and north of them. 



Notes on the fossil Mammalia of Europe Pt. II.— On the 

 affinities of the Genus Tapirulus, Gervais. — Tapirulus is one of those 

 aberrant types, where we find a curious assemblage of characters, which 

 to the systematist is a great annoyance, although to the morphologist 



A superficial examination of the teeth has lead some palaeontologists 

 to assign this genus a position near the Tapir. Gervais 1 established 

 this genus on the characters of the lower true molars. 2 He referred 

 Tapirulus to the family 4 1 1 shall endeavor to prove 



is its proper position, although this reference on his part I believe was 

 accidental, as he placed in the same family the genus Adapis. Gaudry* 

 has assigned Tapirulus a position near the genus Tapirus, and Zittel* 

 referred it to the Suidce. 



Through the great kindness of Prof. Albert Gaudry, who has so 

 generously allowed me to study so many of the beautiful specimens in 

 the collection of the Jardin des Plantes, I have had the opportunity of 

 1 of Tapirulus, in which the greater part of the upper 

 of this skull I was at once 

 of Anoplotherium, and Dacry- 



Tapimlus is slender and much elongated, the dorsal 

 contour is nearly straight, and the facial portion is strongly compressed 

 and slender. There is no preorbital fossa, as in Dacrytherium, and the 

 occiput is high and narrow, like that of Anoplotherium. The auditory 

 region very closely resembles that of Dacrytherium, the paroccipital pro- 

 cess is long, slender and the posttympanic and glenoid processes are 

 applied closely to the external auditory meatus. The brain case in the 

 Anophtke/riid<B is much extended anteroposterior^, being about one- 

 half the total length of the skull in Dacrytherium. In Tapirulu* the 



1 Comptes Eend. Acad. Sci., 1850, p. 604. 

 'Zoologie et Palaeontologie Francaise, p. 173, pi. 

 3 Journal de Zoologie, XIV, 1875, p. 5. 

 *Traite de Palaeontologie, 1894, p. 338. 



