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rugosidens. At the same time he mentioned other teeth which were 

 of common occurrence in the nodule seams of this same sandstone 

 and also in the sand beds of that locality. These last mentioned teeth, 

 however, resemble very closely those of Monachvs. 



The presence of fossil phocids in the porous limestone quarries 

 around Kishinef, Province of Bessarabia, Russia, was first reported 

 by Eichwald, 1 " 7 but he was mistaken in referring these bones to his 

 Phoca pontica. This was later pointed out by Nordmann, 108 who was 

 able, on the basis of a large series of bones from that locality, to 

 observe differences which warranted his describing and figuring these 

 remains as Phoca maeotica. Isolated bones of Phoca maeotica were 

 found associated with those of whales, sirenians, otters, and various 

 swamp birds. Phoca maeotica, according to Nordmann, has longer 

 limbs, and is related to Monachus albiv enter, while Phoca pontica has 

 short limbs and would scarcely equal Phoca vitidina in size. 



UPPER MIOCENE (SARMATIAN) 

 In 1860, Bruhl 109 described Phoca holitschensis on the basis of a 

 foot found at Holitsch, in the valley of the March River, in Nyitra 

 County, Hungary. This little known form seemed to confuse many 

 of the later writers. Paul 110 reported this same phocid, but under 

 the name of Phoca vitidina, from Holitsch, Jablonicz, Sandorf, and 

 Breitenbrunn. He was the first to definitely point out from what 

 horizon it came and established the fact that it belonged to the Cerithia 

 beds of that region. Theodor Fuchs 111 stated that Phoca remains were 

 present in the Leithakalke, though Toula 112 was unable to corroborate 

 his statement. 



Some idea of the close similarity of the Miocene members of the 

 Phocidae with those of living species may be illustrated by a study 

 of the skeleton of Phoca vindobonensis. Quite a number of skeletal 

 elements were found by Toula 113 in the sandy clay of Kreindl's brick- 

 yard on the Nussdorf road near Heiligenstadt, north of Vienna, in 



i° 7 Eichwald, E., Lethaea Rossica ou Paleontologie de la Russie, vol. 3, p. 391. 

 Stuttgart, 1853. 



108 Nordmann, A. v., Palaeontologie Siidrusslands, pt. 4, p. 313, pi. 22, figs. 1-3, 

 6-11; pi. 23, figs. 1-3, 6-10; pi. 24, figs. 1-16. Helsingfors, 1860. 



ioo Bruhl, C. B., Mitt. a. d. k. k. Zool. Institut der Universitiit Pest, Wien, pi. 

 1-2. 1860. 



iio Andrian, F. F. v., u. Paul, K. M., Verhandl. d. k. k. geol. R. Reiehs.-Anst., 

 p. 135. 1863. 



in Fuchs, T ., Die Versuche einer Gliederung des unteren Neogen im Gebiete 

 des Mittelmeers. Zeitsch. deutsch. geol. Gesellsch., vol. 37, p. 158. 1863. 



112 Toula, F., Beitriige z. Palaont. u. Geol. Osterreich-Ungarns u. d. Orients, 

 vol. 11, p. 47 (footnote). 1885. 



us Toula, op. cit., pp. 47-71, pis. 9, 10, 11. 



