Prodromus of the paleontology of Victoria; or, Figures and descriptions of Victorian organic remains .. . A Bcur Jh-a/M^ rTro. ] PALAEONTOLOGY OF VICTORIA. [Mammalia. Plate [CetotoUtes * : Tympanic Ear-bones of Whales.] In 1843 Prof. Owen recoguised as Ear-bones (Petro-tympanics)of large whales, and probably indicative of three or four species, anumber of hard, rounded, involute, very dense bony bodies, dis-covered in great abundance by the Rev. Prof Henslow in the Plio-cene Tertiary Red Crag at Felixstow, in Suffolk, but most probablyderived from an older un
Prodromus of the paleontology of Victoria; or, Figures and descriptions of Victorian organic remains .. . A Bcur Jh-a/M^ rTro. ] PALAEONTOLOGY OF VICTORIA. [Mammalia. Plate [CetotoUtes * : Tympanic Ear-bones of Whales.] In 1843 Prof. Owen recoguised as Ear-bones (Petro-tympanics)of large whales, and probably indicative of three or four species, anumber of hard, rounded, involute, very dense bony bodies, dis-covered in great abundance by the Rev. Prof Henslow in the Plio-cene Tertiary Red Crag at Felixstow, in Suffolk, but most probablyderived from an older underlying Tertiary formation. As theseare the only hard parts, capable of withstanding attrition, of theskeletons of most Whales, the disappearance of aU the other bonesof the skeleton, or their reduction to indeterminable fragments,while the hard Petro-tympanics or Ear-bones alone remained to indi-cate so many species, was well understood, although the fact stillremained amongst the most striking in palaeontology that so smalla portion of such gigantic animals should have been held sufficientevidence
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