SIWALIK CAMELOPARDALID/E. 
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‘ cingulum ’ is present. In the lower molars the first true molar is very generally 
distinguished by the presence of a large ‘ accessory tubercle,’ and in the third 
the c accessory column ’ is of large size, shows a distinct median island, and a con- 
sequent division into an inner and an outer moiety. The ‘ lobes ’ are placed 
obliquely to the long axis of the crown. 
Species : Camelopardalis sivalensis, Falc. and Caut. 
Syn. C. affinis, Falc. and Caut. 
History and 'previous notices. — The first notice of the occurrence of a fossil 
giraffe in the Siwaliks was made by the late Sir (then Captain) P. T. Cautley, in 
a note communicated to the Asiatic Society of Bengal 1 , in 1838, in which a cervical 
vertebra and certain molar teeth were noticed, and considered to belong in all 
probability to a species of giraffe. At a later period a joint notice of these and 
other remains of giraffes was communicated by Messrs. Palconer ard Cautley to 
the Geological Society of London, and an abstract of the same, with illustrations 
published in the ‘ Proceedings ’ of that Society for 1813 a . This abstract and plate are 
copied in the “ Palaeontological Memoirs ” 3 . In that paper the authors came to the 
conclusion that the third cervical vertebra belonged to an animal one-third smaller 
than the living giraffe, to which they assigned the name of Camelopardalis sivalen- 
sis, while the molars belong to a species equalling in size the living species, to 
which they assigned the provisional name C. affinis. In 1845 Dr. Palconer con- 
tributed a notice to the Geological Society 4 , in which a second specimen of a cer- 
vical vertebra of a fossil giraffe ivas described, and referred to C. sivalensis, from its 
agreeing in size with the Siwalik specimen. In 1859 Dr. Palconer described 5 two 
lower jaws of a ruminant in the collection of the Asiatic Society of Bengal as 
probably belonging to Camelopardalis sivalensis. In the same catalogue two limb- 
bones were referred to the same species, one of which (radius) is said to have 
equalled in size the corresponding bone of the living giraffe. 
In 1862 M. Gaudry 6 made a few remarks on the Indian fossil remains 
of Camelopardalis. 
In 1865 two lower ruminant molars, collected by the Messrs. Schlagintweit 
in the Siwaliks, near Nurpur in the Punjab, were described and figured by the 
late H. Von Meyer 7 , who doubtfully referred them to Camelopardalis, without 
attempting to determine their species. 
In 1868, after the death of Dr. Palconer, the description of plate E. of the 
“ Pauna Antiqua Sivalensis ” (an autotype copy of which is now obtainable 
in London) appeared, compiled from Dr. Palconer’s notes. In this description 
1 “ J. A. S. B.,” Vol. 7, p. 658. 
2 No. 98. 
3 Vol. I, p. 190, pi. XVI. 
4 “ Q. J. G. S.,” Vol. I, p. 356 ; and “ Pal. Mem.,” Vol, I, p. 391. 
5 “ Cat. Foss. Vert. Mus. A. S. B. ; ” and “ Pal. Mem.,” Vol. I, p. 206. 
6 Loc. cit., p. 250. 
7 “ Palantographica,” Vol. XV, p. 29, figs. 1-5. 
