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ELEMENTS OF GEOLOGY. 
are the most generally distributed: the latter represents or 
takes the place of the Planorhis euornphahts (see Fig. 175) 
of the more ancient Headon series. Chara tubercalata (Fig. 
172) is the characteristic Bembridge gyrogonite or seed- 
vessel. 
From this formation on the shores of WhiteclilF Bay, Dr. 
Mantell obtained a fine specimen of a fan palm, Flabellaria 
Lamanonis^ Brong., a plant first obtained from beds of cor¬ 
responding age in the suburbs of Paris. The well-known 
building-stone of Binstead, near Ryde, a 
limestone with numerous hollows caused 
by Cyrenae which have disappeared and 
left the moulds of their shells, belongs to 
this subdivision of the Bembridge series. 
In the same Binstead stone Mr. Pratt and 
the Rev. Darwin Fox first discovered the 
remains of mammalia characteristic of the 
gypseous series of Paris, as 
magnum. (Fig. 174), P, medium^ P, minus^ Anopiotherium com- 
P. minimum^ P. curtwn^ P, crassum; also 
Afioplotherium commune (Fig. 173),^. se- 
cundarium^ Pichobune cervinum^ and Chceropotamus Curieri, 
The Paleothere above alluded to resembled the living tapir 
in the form of the head, and in having a short proboscis, but 
Fig. 174. 
its molar teeth were more like those of the rhinoceros. Pa- 
Ifjeotherium magnum was of the size of a horse, three or four 
feet high. The annexed woodcut. Fig. 174, is one of the 
restorations which Cuvier attempted of the outline of the 
living animal, derived from the study of the entire skeleton. 
