. A guide to the fossil mammals and birds in the Department of Geology and Palæontology in the British Museum (Natural History) .. . Wild-boars. Pier-case,No. 13. Table-case,No. 7. Hyothe-rium. Hippohyus. Listriodon. Fig. 54a.—The third right upper Fig. 54b.—First and second left upper true molar of Hyopotamus true molars of Bi/opotamus por- i/tus (Owen). cinus (P. Gervais). From the Hempstead Beds, TJ. Eocene, Isle of Wight (both nat. size). The most Porcine of the group are the genera Elotheriumand Chceropota/nms, each possessing the typical number of teeth,viz., forty-four. The Elotherium w
. A guide to the fossil mammals and birds in the Department of Geology and Palæontology in the British Museum (Natural History) .. . Wild-boars. Pier-case,No. 13. Table-case,No. 7. Hyothe-rium. Hippohyus. Listriodon. Fig. 54a.—The third right upper Fig. 54b.—First and second left upper true molar of Hyopotamus true molars of Bi/opotamus por- i/tus (Owen). cinus (P. Gervais). From the Hempstead Beds, TJ. Eocene, Isle of Wight (both nat. size). The most Porcine of the group are the genera Elotheriumand Chceropota/nms, each possessing the typical number of teeth,viz., forty-four. The Elotherium was a large animal from theLower Miocene of Ronzon, near Puy-en-Velay, France. Itsremains have also been found in the Hempstead beds of the Isle Elotherium-Chceropota- mus. 46 Artiodactyla—Anthracotherium, Anoplotherium, etc. Chceropota-mus. Table-case,No. 7. Anthraco-therium. Pier-case,No. 13, andTable-case,No. 7. Hyopota- mus. Meryeopo-tanius. Table-case,No. ,No. 8. of Wight. Chceropotamus was likewise a denizen of thiscountry. Sir Richard Owen has described* a nearly perfectramus of the mandible, now in the collection, from the upperEocene at Seafield, Isle of Wight; also, in the same case, areexhibited jaws and teeth from a deposit of similar age atDebruge, near Apt, Yaucluse. Family Anthracotheriidj*:.—The genus Anthracotherium,first discovered in a lower Miocene coal-bedf at Cadibona, Pied-mont, is represented in the collection by remains of severalspecies ranging- in size from an ox to a sheep. A. magnum is fromthe Lower Miocene sands at Flonheim, Hessen-Darmstadt, andthe fine series of portions of jaws and detached teeth are respec-tively from the Upper Eocene, Caylux, Erance, and Cadibona inPiedmont. Remains of the smallest species, AnthracotheriumGresslyi, are found in the Upper Eocene beds of Hordwell, Hants,and Bembridge. The intermediate formsare from many localities and formations,namely, the Upper Eocene of Switzerland
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