. A hand-book to the British mammalia. Mammals. 310 LLOYDS NATURAL HISTORY, tinct Deer, among which Savin's Deer {Cervus savini) is re- markable for the flattened form of the "brow"-tine, while in the magnificent species (C. sedgwicJit) named after the well-known Professor of Geology at Cambridge the spreading antlers attained a complexity of structure unknown in any other member of the genus. Of other Ungulates, the Hippopotamus, the Wild Boar, and the Horse, date from the Forest-bed; and the occurrence in this formation of the former species in association with the Musk-Ox, Glutton
. A hand-book to the British mammalia. Mammals. 310 LLOYDS NATURAL HISTORY, tinct Deer, among which Savin's Deer {Cervus savini) is re- markable for the flattened form of the "brow"-tine, while in the magnificent species (C. sedgwicJit) named after the well-known Professor of Geology at Cambridge the spreading antlers attained a complexity of structure unknown in any other member of the genus. Of other Ungulates, the Hippopotamus, the Wild Boar, and the Horse, date from the Forest-bed; and the occurrence in this formation of the former species in association with the Musk-Ox, Glutton, and Walrus, presents us with another of the puzzles which almost break the heart of the palaeontologist. In addition to the Common Horse, there was an extinct species known as Steno's Horse {Equus stenonis), and distinguished by the small size of the so-called front inner pillar of the upper molar teeth, or the portion occupying the. Fig. I. Right upper molar tooth of Steno's ; middle of the lower border of the annexed figure. In this respect the species in question was less specialised than the modern Horse, and makes a step in the direction of the under- mentioned Hipparion. On the Continent Steno's Horse occurs in beds of upper Pliocene age, where it was accompanied by the Etruscan Rhinoceros {Rhinoceros etuscus), as was also the case in the Forest-bed. This Etruscan -Rhinoceros differs from the Leptorhine and Megarhine Cavern species in the much lower crowns of its molar teeth, and is like- wise, therefore, a more generalised type. So far as can be. 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 Lydekker, Richard, 1849-1915. London, Edward Lloyd
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