. A history of British fossil mammals, and birds . ---%■- Fossil URSUS PRiscus, 5 nat. size. Kents Hole. Fin. j-\ Recent Brown Dear.—Alps. \ nat. size. URSUS PRISCUS. Ursus prisms, Goldfuss, Nova Acta Academiae Nat. Cur. t. x. pt. 2, p. 259. Ours intermediairc, Cuvier, Osseni. Fossiles, 4to., ed. 1823, torn. iv. p. 356. This extinct species was established upon cliavacters de-duced from a nearly entire cranium, discovered in the cele-brated bone-cave at Gailenreuth, and which is now in theBritish Museum. Though this specimen has evidently, bythe abraded summits of the grinding teeth, belo
. A history of British fossil mammals, and birds . ---%■- Fossil URSUS PRiscus, 5 nat. size. Kents Hole. Fin. j-\ Recent Brown Dear.—Alps. \ nat. size. URSUS PRISCUS. Ursus prisms, Goldfuss, Nova Acta Academiae Nat. Cur. t. x. pt. 2, p. 259. Ours intermediairc, Cuvier, Osseni. Fossiles, 4to., ed. 1823, torn. iv. p. 356. This extinct species was established upon cliavacters de-duced from a nearly entire cranium, discovered in the cele-brated bone-cave at Gailenreuth, and which is now in theBritish Museum. Though this specimen has evidently, bythe abraded summits of the grinding teeth, belonged toan aged individual, this must have been less than the Bearfrom the Manea Fen or the great European Black Bear,The contour of the skull of the Ursus priscus is less URSUS PRISCUS. 83 elevated than in tlie Brown, or Alpine variety, andthe flattened tbrehead passes into the nose with a lesssensible concavity than in the skull of the Fen Bear {). The coronoid process of the lower jaw is ratherbroader and higher, and the interval between the ante-pennltiniate molar and the canine tooth is longer. By
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