. A guide to the fossil mammals and birds in the Department of geology and palontology in the British Museum (Natural history) ... With 6 plates and 88 text-figures . Fig. 3.—IModel of skull and lower jaw of a supposed ariuatic Lemur[Megaladains insignis), from a Cavern in Madagascar; one quarternat. size. (Pier-case 3.) The largest species of Megaladapis {M. insignis), of whichvarious Iracrments are exhiliited and of which a rest(jred 12 GUIDE TO THE FOSSIL MAMMALS AND BIRDS. Pier-case 3. model of the skull (Fig. 3) is placed on the top shelf ofPier-case 3, must have been about as large as a
. A guide to the fossil mammals and birds in the Department of geology and palontology in the British Museum (Natural history) ... With 6 plates and 88 text-figures . Fig. 3.—IModel of skull and lower jaw of a supposed ariuatic Lemur[Megaladains insignis), from a Cavern in Madagascar; one quarternat. size. (Pier-case 3.) The largest species of Megaladapis {M. insignis), of whichvarious Iracrments are exhiliited and of which a rest(jred 12 GUIDE TO THE FOSSIL MAMMALS AND BIRDS. Pier-case 3. model of the skull (Fig. 3) is placed on the top shelf ofPier-case 3, must have been about as large as a clearly did not live in trees, and may perhaps have beenadapted for an aquatic life. The bony rims of the orbits arecuriously produced like tliose of a hippopotamus. Order II.—CARNIVORA. SuB-oiiDEK 1.—Carnivora Vera. Pier-ease 3. The true cats or Pelidse are well represented amongfossils, which trace back the ancestry of this highest survivingtribe of flesh-eaters to Miocene European animals muchresembling the existing Cryptoxtroda of Madagascar. Felisitself first appears in the Middle or Upper ]\Iiocene ofEurope, and culminated in the great ca
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