. A guide to the fossil mammals and birds in the Department of Geology and Palæontology in the British Museum (Natural History) .. . the fifth and sixth years of Cercas tetmceros (Boyd Dawkins), from theUpper Pliocene of Peyrolles, France (see Pier-case No. 15). Thousands of fragments of the shed antlers of the rein-deer have been obtained from the Gower Peninsula, SouthWales; in the Vale of Clwyd, in North Wales; in KentsHole, Torquay; and from many other caves and fissures in lime-stone l^ocks in England. Numerous remains of reindeer havebeen obtained from the Thames valley brick-earth and g
. A guide to the fossil mammals and birds in the Department of Geology and Palæontology in the British Museum (Natural History) .. . the fifth and sixth years of Cercas tetmceros (Boyd Dawkins), from theUpper Pliocene of Peyrolles, France (see Pier-case No. 15). Thousands of fragments of the shed antlers of the rein-deer have been obtained from the Gower Peninsula, SouthWales; in the Vale of Clwyd, in North Wales; in KentsHole, Torquay; and from many other caves and fissures in lime-stone l^ocks in England. Numerous remains of reindeer havebeen obtained from the Thames valley brick-earth and gravelsin and around London, as at Ilford and at Earls Court,Twickenham, etc. A very fine antler from the last namedlocality is mounted in Wall-case No. 15. The broken skulls,with the bases of antlers attached, may also be seen from thecave of Bruniquel, in France, and a fine entire antler embeddedin stalagmite from Brixham Cave near Torquay. Several extinct forms of Deer, some equalling the gigantic if ier-case,No. 15. The Rein-deer. Table case,No. 10. See Wall-case No. 1,and Pier-case No. 15. 54 Artiodactyla—Antlers of Deei. Fig. 65.—Antlers of Cervus cyliwh-octros (Boyd Dawkins), from the Upper Pliocenoof Arde, Fiance.
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