Archive image from page 360 of The deer of all lands;. The deer of all lands; a history of the family Cervidæ living and extinct deerofalllandshi00lyde Year: 1898 Extinct Species 293 5. Ameghino's Marsh-Deer—Mazama fragilis {Extinct) Cervus fragilis, Ameghino, Diagnosis Mam. Fos. Neuv. p. 11 (1888). Paraceros fragilis, Ameghino, Mam. Fos. Repub. Argent, p. 606, plate xxxviii, fig. 7 (1889). Cariacus fragilis, Lydekker, An. Mas. La Plata—Pal. Argent, vol. ii. p. 82, plate xxxii (1893). Characters.—The type of this well- marked species is an imperfect left antler from the superficial deposits
Archive image from page 360 of The deer of all lands;. The deer of all lands; a history of the family Cervidæ living and extinct deerofalllandshi00lyde Year: 1898 Extinct Species 293 5. Ameghino's Marsh-Deer—Mazama fragilis {Extinct) Cervus fragilis, Ameghino, Diagnosis Mam. Fos. Neuv. p. 11 (1888). Paraceros fragilis, Ameghino, Mam. Fos. Repub. Argent, p. 606, plate xxxviii, fig. 7 (1889). Cariacus fragilis, Lydekker, An. Mas. La Plata—Pal. Argent, vol. ii. p. 82, plate xxxii (1893). Characters.—The type of this well- marked species is an imperfect left antler from the superficial deposits of the pampas of Buenos Aires. The beam is cylindrical, and the main bifurcation takes place about two inches above the burr. The anterior branch of the main fork is given off at an obtuse angle to the posterior one, and is apparently simple. The much larger posterior branch forks about five inches above the main bifurcation, and the hinder tine again divides dichotomously. The figured specimen, from which the front prong of the main fork is broken away, is one of a pair in the museum at La Plata. Both antlers show five points, and apparently indicate a species allied to the pampas deer, but having antlers of a more complex type. Distribution. — Argentina during the Plistocene epoch. Fig. 78.—Front view of Left Antler of Ameghino's Marsh-Deer. From a specimen in the La Plata Museum. iii. The Guemal Group—-Sub-Genus Xenelaphus Hippocamelus, Leuckart, De Equo bisulco Molina, p. 23 (1816). Cerveqiais, Lesson, Nouv. Tab/. Hist. Nat. p. 173 (1842).
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