CHIM^RTD^. 
89 
the anterior and posterior inner being fused together, the median 
very large and sometimes fused with the posterior inner, and the 
outer tritor much elongated, consisting of laminae. Vomerine tooth 
broad, with several closely-arranged, laminated tritors. 
Elasmodus hunteri, Egerton. 
1840. ‘ Extinct Chimcera R. Owen, Odontography, vol. i. p. 66. 
1843. Elasmodus hunteri, Sir P. Egerton, Proc. Geol. Soc. vol. iv. 
p. 156. 
1847. Elasmodus hunteri , Sir P. Egerton, Quart. Journ. Geol. Soc. 
vol. iii. p. 351. 
1850. Elasmodus hunteri , F. Dixon, Foss. Sussex, p. Ill, pi. x. figs. 11, 
12 . 
1852. Elasmodus hunteri , Sir P. Egerton, Figs, and Descrips. Brit. 
Organic Remains (Mem. Geol. Surv.), dec. vi. no. 1, pi. i. 
1885. Elasmodus hunteri , F. Noetling, Abh. geol. Specialk. Preussen 
u. Thiiring. Staaten, vol. vi. pt. 3, p. 11, pi. i. figs. 2, 3, pi. ii. 
fig. 6. 
Type. Mandibular tooth and theoretically associated vomerine 
tooth; Royal College of Surgeons. 
The type species. Inner tritor of mandibular tooth at least as 
broad as the space between it and the symphysis, sometimes much 
broader. Median and outer tritors of the palatine tooth extremely 
elongated antero-posteriorly. 
Form. § Log. Lower Eocene (London Clay) : Isle of Sheppey. 
Middle Eocene (Bracklesham Beds): Sussex. Eocene (Zone A,) : 
Samland, Prussia. 
(i.) London Clay ; Isle of Sheppey. 
40203. Left mandibular tooth. Purchased , 1867. 
43110. Similar specimen, less abraded. Wetherell Coll, 
44910. Imperfect right mandibular tooth. 
Presented by Sir Richard Owen , K.C.B , 1874. 
P. 161. Small abraded left mandibular tooth. Purchased , 1880. 
P. 6227. Abraded left palatine tooth. History unknown. 
P. 3080 a. Imperfect right palatine tooth. Enniskillen Coll . 
P. 1157 a. Left vomerine tooth. Egerton Coll. 
(ii.) Bracklesham Beds ; Bracklesham Bay, Sussex. 
P. 6228. Small left mandibular tooth, figured by Egerton, op. cit. 
(1852), pi. i. figs. 3, 4. Dixon Coll . 
