. Bulletin of the Department of Geology. Geology. 170 University of California Publications in Geology [ SPECIMEN FROM AURIFEROUS GRAVELS OF CALIFORNIA A lower molar tooth presented by Mr. Benjamin Pownell to the University of California some years ago is the only available specimen representing the Tapiridae in California. This tooth was originally in the collection of Dr. Snell, and as suggested by Dr. Wm. J. Sinclair, who obtained it from Mr. Pownell, it may be the tooth to which reference is made by Wm. P. Blake and later by J. D. Whitney. In a note on the occurrence of fossil remains
. Bulletin of the Department of Geology. Geology. 170 University of California Publications in Geology [ SPECIMEN FROM AURIFEROUS GRAVELS OF CALIFORNIA A lower molar tooth presented by Mr. Benjamin Pownell to the University of California some years ago is the only available specimen representing the Tapiridae in California. This tooth was originally in the collection of Dr. Snell, and as suggested by Dr. Wm. J. Sinclair, who obtained it from Mr. Pownell, it may be the tooth to which reference is made by Wm. P. Blake and later by J. D. Whitney. In a note on the occurrence of fossil remains of the tapir in California published in 1868, Blake1 stated that remains of this animal had been found at a depth of forty feet below the surface in the auriferous gravels at Wood's Creek near Sonora, Tuolumne County, California. The speci- mens were said to have been presented to Blake by Dr. Snell of Sonora. The material consisted of a lower molar and possibly an epiphysis of a cervical vertebra. The tooth was determined by Professor Owen of the British Museum as the "crown of the left lower molar tooth of a ; The specimen mentioned by W. P. Blake is referred to by J. D. Whitney2 in 1879 in his discussion of the Auriferous la it Ic Figs, la to Ic. Tapirus haysii calif ornicus, n. subsp. M2(?). No. 8747, natural size. From the Auriferous Gravels of California. Fig. la, outer view; fig. lb, superior view; fig. Ic, inner view. The tooth presented to the University by Mr. Pownell is a left lower molar. It is apparently M2. It seems to be dis- tinguished from M3 mainly by the relatively greater width of the posterior half of the tooth. The anterior and posterior transverse ridges are unworn and show only faint indications of notches between protoconid and metaconid, and between hypo- conid and entoconid. There is an anterior and a posterior 1 Blake, Wm. P., Amer. Jour. Sc., ser. 2, vol. 45, p. 381, 1868. 2 Whitney, J. D., Mus. Comp. Zool., vol. 6, p. 250
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