Vol. 59.] 



OSSIFEROUS CAVERN AT DOVEHOLES. 



121 



Peyrolles. Their measurements, as may be seen in the following 

 table, come very close to those of the latter species in the British 

 Museum (Natural History). They may, therefore, be provisionally 

 assigned to that species. 









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(in millimetres) 



of Cervus etueriarum (?) 



and C. peyrollensis. 



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59 







22 







Humerus . . . 







57 











27 



50 



Humerus ... 







77 







40 



65 



Metacarpal . . . 







70 











Tibia ......... }-Doveholes. 





73+ 











38 



18 



Tibia 





65 











33 



13 



Metatarsal ... 



220 



14 



20 



20 



24 





Metatarsal ... | 





49 



18 



20 







Metatarsal ... J 

 Scapula .«?.... ^ 







50 













30 



28 







Humerus ... 1 Peyrolles, 





65 











35 



50 



Humerus ... | British 





60 











32 



50 



Tibia )■ Museum 



270 



68 











33 



17 



Tibia 



(Natural 



History). 





68 



36 

 22 



40 

 23 



33 



15 



Metatarsal ... 



Metatarsal ... ,' 



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51 



24 



24 







Cervus etueriarum, as I have already shown in a paper on the 

 4 History of the Deer of the European Miocene & Pliocene Strata,' 

 brought before this Society in 1877, 1 is closely allied to the axis, 

 chetul, or spotted deer of India. It occurs in the Upper Pliocene, 

 both of Auvergne and of the Val d'Arno. 



Y. The Mammalia of Upper Pliocene Age. 



The range in space and in time of the mammalia just described 

 leaves no room for doubting the geological age of the deposit in 

 which they rest. All the species occur in the river- deposits of 

 well-defined Upper Pliocene age in Auvergne and the Yal d'Arno, 

 and may be studied in the Museums of Prance and Italy. In 

 Britain, Mastodon arvernensis, Elephas meridionalis, Equus Stenonis, 

 and Rhinoceros etruscus (?) 2 are found in the Red Crag. 



The distribution of the whole group in Britain and on the Con- 

 tinent is shown in the following table : — 



1 Quart, Journ. Geol. Soc. vol. xxxiv (1878) p. 410. 



2 In my opinion this is represented, in part at least, by ' lih. Schleiermachcri ' 

 or the Red Crag. 



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