. A guide to the fossil mammals and birds in the Department of geology and palontology in the British Museum (Natural history) ... With 6 plates and 88 text-figures . picuous. This animal first appearsin the Upper Pliocene of Italy, France, and England; andthe common C. fihcr had a remarkably wide range in Europeduring the Pleistocene period. Good specimens are shownfrom the Fen-land (Fig. 63) and from the valley of the Lea,E-ssex. It does not appear to have been exterminated inBritain until about the twelfth century, and there are stillallusions to it in some names of places (, Beverley a
. A guide to the fossil mammals and birds in the Department of geology and palontology in the British Museum (Natural history) ... With 6 plates and 88 text-figures . picuous. This animal first appearsin the Upper Pliocene of Italy, France, and England; andthe common C. fihcr had a remarkably wide range in Europeduring the Pleistocene period. Good specimens are shownfrom the Fen-land (Fig. 63) and from the valley of the Lea,E-ssex. It does not appear to have been exterminated inBritain until about the twelfth century, and there are stillallusions to it in some names of places (, Beverley andIS^ant-yr-afancwn). Trogonthcrium cuvieri is a giant beaver,wliich ranged from Pussia to England during early Pleistocenetimes. A skull, jaws, and other remains from the XorfolkForest Bed are exhibited, with plaster casts of a Pussianskull and mandible of the same species. :\1AMMALIA. 67 Among ]\Iyomorpha, it is interesting to notice that the Table-easelemmings [Mi/odcs Icmmvs and Cuniculus torquatus) occur in ^^•the Pleistocene of England. There are also remains of alarge dormouse {Leithia melitcnsu) found with the pigmyelephants in the caverns of ] Fig. 63. —Left upper (A) and light loweL ^B) teeth of Beaver {Castor fiber),from the Fens of Cambridgeshire ; nat. size. Among Hystricomorpha, a skull of the gigantic CastorokJcsohioticvs from the Ileistocene of North America is shown ;and there is a drawing-of a complete skeleton of this animal,natural size, on the adjacent wall. There are also remainsof various genera from South America, where the extinctPleistocene Mega mys must have l)een as large asan ox. The Lagomorpha, or rabhits, picas, and hares, date hackto the Oligocene period. Ordei; VII.—SIRENIA. The extinct representatives of the sea-cows, so far asknown, aie very little different from the surviving meml)ersof the Order. Discoveries in Pgypt merely suggest thatduring the Eocene period they were most closely connectedwith the early Proboscidea
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