MEGALOIIYKAX EOCiENUS. 
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The basal portion of the skull is greatly crushed, but it can be seen that the 
condyles nearly meet below in the middle line ; in front of them the basioccipital bears 
on either side a sharp ridge ; anteriorly the basicranial axis is much contracted. The 
glenoid surface, formed entirely by the squamosal, is very broad and flat. 
Text-fig. 39. 
soc. 
Posterior portion of skull of ? Megalohyrax eoccenus : A, from above ; B, from behind. 
concL, occipital condyles ; f.m., foramen magnum ; fr., frontals ; j^a., parietals ; postglenoid process ; 
p.orh., temporal (postorbital) ridge ; p.p., paroccipital process ; s.c,, sagittal crest ; soc., supraoccipital ; 
»(/., squamosal. J nat. size. 
Comparison of this skull with recent forms shows that, not only in the shape 
of the frontal region but also in that of the paroccipital processes and their relations 
to the squamosal, as well as in the structure of the glenoid surface, it is very like the 
skull of Ilyrax (Procavia) validus. 
M. 8502. Eight maxilla with canine, preinolars, and molars. The type specimen described and 
figured in the Geol. Mag. [4] vol. x. (1903), pp. 339-341, fig. 1, and also on PI. VI. fig. 2. 
On the whole the teeth are in a good state of preservation, but portions of the ectoloph 
