1922] Kellogg: Pinnipeds from Miocene and Pleistocene Deposits 69 



the existing Antarctic Lobodoninae, was present at one time on the 

 Alantic coast of North America. 



MIDDLE EOCENE (LOWER MOKATT AM ? ) 

 Among numerous other fossils collected by Th. Lefevre during bis 

 travels in Egypt, were several fragments of bones, chiefly vertebrae 

 and ribs, of a marine mammal. These remains were described and 

 figured by Blainville 89 as P.? aegypiiaca antiqua. According to the 

 data which accompanied the specimens, these fossils were collected in 

 a chalky formation in the valley of the Nile on the right bank of the 

 river, but Blainville thought it more probable that they were derived 

 from the white calcareous limestone of the same region. The eleven 

 fragments of bones figured by Blainville do not permit accurate 

 determination. Ami Bone" is credited with an account of some teeth 

 of a supposed phocid (Loup marin) found in a chalky formation at 

 Wollersdorf, comparable to the formation in Egypt from which the 

 specimens of Lefevre came. 



MIDDLE OLIGOOENE (RUPELIAN) 

 Several teeth and other remains of a marine mammal were found 

 associated with SquaJodon and Halytherium (= Crass-itherkvmt) in 

 Rupelian clay on the bed of the Meuse River, at Elsloo near Maestricht, 

 Province of Limburg, Holland. At the time of Van Beneden's visit 

 to the Museum of Leyden, these specimens were labeled as Phoca 

 ambigua, for that was the name given them by Staring." 1 If these 

 remains are actually authentic phocids they must belong to some 

 undescribed form. It is now known that the teeth and vertebra which 

 Minister 02 had previously described and figured as Phoca ambigua 

 and which came from the marls of Osnabruck basin near Biinde in 

 Hanover, Germany, belonged to the family Squalodontidae. The 

 credit for this determination belongs to Abel/ 13 who has seen the type 



g o Blainville, H. M. D., Osteographie ou description iconograpliique, vol. 2, 

 pp. 43, 51; and Atlas, vol. 2, pi. 10, fig-. 2. Paris, 1839-64. 



'M Boue, A., Journal de geologie, vol. 3, no. 9, pp. 30-31. Paris, 1831. 



01 Staring, W. C. H., De Bodem van Nederland. De zamenstelling en het 

 ontstaan der gronden in Nederland, vol. 2, pp. 282-283. Haarlem, 1860. 



;i2 Miinster, G. G., Bemerkungen iiber einige tertiare Meerwasser-Gebilde in 

 nord-westlichen Deutsehland, zwisohen Osnabriiek und Oassel. Neues Jahrbuch fur 

 Mineralogie, Stuttgart, p. 447, 1835. Beitriige zur Petrefaktenkunde, vol. 3, p. 1, 

 pi. 7. Bayreuth, 1840. 



»3 Abel, O., Les Odontocetes du Bolderien. Mus. Roy. d 'Hist. Nat. de Bel- 

 gique, vol. 3, pp. 46, 66. 1905. 



