. Catalogue of casts of fossils, from the principal museums of Europe and America, with short descriptions and illustrations. Fossils. 32 VERTEBRATA. would seem between the large Lophiodons and the huger ; To complicate the matter stUl further, there has been discovered in the Department of the Haute-Garonne in Southern France, an immense fossil pelvis, supposed to belong to the D. [See American Journal of Science for November, 1864.] It is five feet eleven inches from one crest to the other of the iliac bones, and four feet three inches in a line cutting it vertically. In i
. Catalogue of casts of fossils, from the principal museums of Europe and America, with short descriptions and illustrations. Fossils. 32 VERTEBRATA. would seem between the large Lophiodons and the huger ; To complicate the matter stUl further, there has been discovered in the Department of the Haute-Garonne in Southern France, an immense fossil pelvis, supposed to belong to the D. [See American Journal of Science for November, 1864.] It is five feet eleven inches from one crest to the other of the iliac bones, and four feet three inches in a line cutting it vertically. In its lower portion are two subtri- angular depressions which are evidently articulating cavities, in which fitted. marsupial bones. It may be, therefore, that the D. was a marsupial; although it is still as uncertain as before to what exact order of animal this didelphic feature was in this case added. The skull, scapula, femur and pelvis (?) are the only parts of the D. yet discovered. The scapula resembles that of a Mole. The skull is char- acterized by a very fiat occipital bone (approximating in form the occiput of Ce- tacea), large nasal aperture opening above, and large suborbital fossae, which, together with the form of the nose, seem to indicate the presence of a short pro-. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Ward, Henry A. (Henry Augustus), 1834-1906. Rochester, N. Y. , Benton & Andrews, printers
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