Prodromus of the paleontology of Victoria; or, Figures and descriptions of Victorian organic remains .. . o previouslydescribed, and much more nearly allied to the Ziphioid these latter Cetaceans have a long solid beak of dense flattenedbones, I fancy that the numerous Cetacean bones of this characterfound in the Waurn Ponds quarries may be found to have belongedto a form of this group, and possibly the present species of Ceio-tolites may be the ear-bone of the same. Not uncommon in the Miocene Tertiary strata of Waui-n Ponds,Geelong. Explanation or Figdbes. Plate LIV.—Fig. 3, averag
Prodromus of the paleontology of Victoria; or, Figures and descriptions of Victorian organic remains .. . o previouslydescribed, and much more nearly allied to the Ziphioid these latter Cetaceans have a long solid beak of dense flattenedbones, I fancy that the numerous Cetacean bones of this characterfound in the Waurn Ponds quarries may be found to have belongedto a form of this group, and possibly the present species of Ceio-tolites may be the ear-bone of the same. Not uncommon in the Miocene Tertiary strata of Waui-n Ponds,Geelong. Explanation or Figdbes. Plate LIV.—Fig. 3, average specimen, natural size, viewed from above. Fig. 3a, samespecimen viewed from below, showing the posterior bilobation. Fig. 3A, same specimen viewedfrom behind. Fig. 4, another specimen (rar. liugosa), viewed from above, natural size, showingthe rugged shallow anterior part of cavity near the flattened wedge-shaped anterior 4a, same specimen viewed from below. Fig. 5, another specimen viewed from behind. Feederick McCoy. »EC. n. [ 17] It LV. PAL/EO NTOLOGY OF VICTORIA (Terbary Ma-.
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