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It seems almost certain that Paquier’s Schizodelphis depereti is the 
same species as that represented by Cuvier’s fragment. The type 
specimen comprises the cranium forward of the blowholes and most 
of the lower jaw, but the rostrum has been broken off somewhere near 
its middle. The excellent photographs of the specimen show the same 
convexity at the base of the maxillary, while the broken and projecting 
end of the lower jaw is obviously much narrower than the upper at the 
same point, as if it had closed inside the latter, a point further indicated 
by the fact that the small lower tooth preserved is expressly stated to 
have its tip hidden in the upper maxillary. In both dorsal and ventral 
views, the right and the left sides show no marked asymmetry. Abel 
(1899) though admitting many discrepancies between this skull and 
that of Schizodelphis sulcatus, nevertheless dismisses it as representing 
probably the latter species. The locality of Paquier’s specimen is 
southern France, ‘Tes carrieres de Chamaret (Drome)” in the Rhone 
valley. The formation is the “mollasse burdigalienne, ” considered 
to be lower Miocene. Assuming that Paquier’s specimen represents 
the same species as Cuvier’s from northern France, the synonymy will 
stand as follows : 
Pomatodelphis stenorh3mchus (Holl) 
1823. Dauphin . . . . du departement de TOrne, G, Cuviee, Rech. sur les 
Ossemens fossiles, ed. 2, vol. 5, pt. 1, p. 317, pi. 23, fig. 38 (see ed. 5, 
1836, p. 168, pi. 224). 
1829. Delphinus stenorhynchus Holl, Handbuch d. Petrefactenkunde, part 1, 
p. 70. 
1834. Delphinus longirostris oder stenorhynchus Kefekstein, Die Naturge- 
schichte des Erdkorpers, vol. 2, p. 203 (not D. longirostris Gray, 1828; not 
Dussumier, 1829). 
1841. Delphinus longirostris H. von Meyer, Neues Jahrb. f. Mineral., 1841, p.327. 
1844. Delphinus renovi Laurillard, in D’Orbigny, Diet. Univ. d’Hist. Nat., 
vol. 4, p. 634, pi. fig. 38. 
1873. Delphinus renui Brandt, Mem. Acad. Imp. Sci. St. Petersbourg, ser. 7, 
vol. 20, p. 247 (emendatio) . 
1894. Schizodelphis depereti Paquier, Mem. Soc. Geol. de France, vol. 4, no. 
12, p. 7. 
1898. Champsodelphis renovi Longhi, Atti Soc. Veneto-Trent.‘Sci. Nat., Padova, 
ser. 2, vol. 3, p. 333. 
Though referred to the same genus, there seem ample grounds for 
considering the French species distinct from the Florida one. The 
figures of the former, especially that of Cuvier representing the right 
maxillary, show the proximal alveoli large and somewhat closely 
