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ON SOME TEETH OF THE ANCHITHERIUM, RECENTLY 
DISCOVERED IN THE ISLE OF WIGHT. 
Extract ov a Letter from Professor Padl Gervais, of Montpellieu, 
TO Dr. T. L. Phipson, of Paris. 
" . . . . I have just communicated to our Academy an observation 
which may, perhaps, interest the readers of the Geologist, as it 
concerns a fossil found in England. 
" M. Seamann, of Paris, has sent me five teeth of an animal belonging 
to the tribe of Pachydermata, and which wore found in the Pembridge 
limestone, at Headon Hill, in the Isle of Wight. This bed also contains 
remains of Pulajotheria, Anoplotheria, &c., that is to sa}^ the animals 
belonging to the fauna of the Platieres (Paris tertiary), which, in my 
work, * I have named the proicene fauna. The accompanying figures 
will give you an idea of the teeth. Nos. 1 and 2 are molars from the 
back part of the upper jaw. No. 5 is an incisor tooth. They are all 
represented of the natural size. The animal to which they belong 
appears to pertain to the order I have called Jumentes, in which we have> 
also, the horse, the rhinoceros, the palsBotherium, and the lophiodon. 
In my estimation, these teeth belong to a species of Anchitherium, and, 
most probably, to the Anchitherium Radegondemse (See Gervais Zool. 
et Pal. pi. XXX.), which I discovered in a bed of lignite at Ste. 
Radegonde (Vaucluse), in the south of France. This district is, as 
yet, the only one which has revealed to us with certitude remains of 
the species in question. Neither the Platieres of Paris, nor any other 
contemporary strata, have ever given us the slightest indications of it. 
It will, therefore, be interesting for you to make known the existence 
of this fossil in the Isle of Wight." 
* Zoologiae et Paleontologie Fran9aise8. 
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