. Catalogue of the fossil Mammalia in the British museum, (Natural History). Mammals, Fossil. 88 TJNGTTLATA. Figured by Falconer and Cantley, op. cit. pi. xxv a. figs. 3, 3 a (as E. ganesa). The tooth apparently has seven ridges. Transferred from the Old Indian Museum, 1880. M. 1993. Fragment of the right ramus of a mandible containing the half-worn m. 3, which has been longitudinally and vertically bisected. The tooth appears to have had eight ridges. Presented by Dr. Hugh Falconer. Elephas ganesa, Falconer and CautleyJ. Syn. Stegodon ganesa, auct. The third true molars in the type cranium of
. Catalogue of the fossil Mammalia in the British museum, (Natural History). Mammals, Fossil. 88 TJNGTTLATA. Figured by Falconer and Cantley, op. cit. pi. xxv a. figs. 3, 3 a (as E. ganesa). The tooth apparently has seven ridges. Transferred from the Old Indian Museum, 1880. M. 1993. Fragment of the right ramus of a mandible containing the half-worn m. 3, which has been longitudinally and vertically bisected. The tooth appears to have had eight ridges. Presented by Dr. Hugh Falconer. Elephas ganesa, Falconer and CautleyJ. Syn. Stegodon ganesa, auct. The third true molars in the type cranium of this species contain ten ridges, and thereby agree with the corresponding teeth of E. insignis rather than of E. bombifrons, a conclusion confirmed by a second cranium, in which there appear to be either ten or eleven ridges in the same tooth2. This close resemblance between the last molar of this form and of E. insignis renders it apparently impossible to draw any distinction between the earlier teeth of the two forms3, and all such teeth are therefore referred to the latter. Falconer4 had considerable doubts as to the specific distinctness of the present Fig. Elephas ganesa.—The skull; from the Siwalik Hills. &. (After Gaudry's ' Enchaineinents.') form, and as the resemblance between the type cranium and the young cranium of E. insignis5 indicates that the two are closely related, it is possible that E. ganesa may be the male form of E. in- signis. The adult cranium does not differ very widely from the type of E. indicus, although the frontal constriction is less marked. 1 Fauna Antiqua Sivalensis, pt. i. p. 45 (1846). 2 See Eec. Geol. Surv. Ind. vol. ix. p. 48 (1876). 3 The majority of the teeth figured in the ' Fauna Antiqua Sivalensis ' under the name of E. ganesa have the low ridge-formula of E. bombifrons (q. v.). 4 See ' Palrcontological Memoirs,' vol. ii. p. 84. 5 See Fauna Antiqua Sivalensis,' pi. xliii. figs. 14, Please note that these images are ext
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