. Palaeontological memoirs and notes of H. Falconer, with a biographical sketch of the author . s as Professor in It does not appear from Dr. Fal- [ men, which is here described from aconers notes that he had seen the speci- | drawing made by Col. Baker.— [Ed.] DESCEIPTION OF PLATE XXXIV. Figs. 1 and 2. Show, in plan and profile, the teeth from Attock of theTapiroid animal described at page 416 under the designation ofAntoletherium. The figures have been copied from the pencildrawings by Col. Baker referred to in the text, and are three-fourths of the natural size. Figs. 3, 4, and 5. Three dif
. Palaeontological memoirs and notes of H. Falconer, with a biographical sketch of the author . s as Professor in It does not appear from Dr. Fal- [ men, which is here described from aconers notes that he had seen the speci- | drawing made by Col. Baker.— [Ed.] DESCEIPTION OF PLATE XXXIV. Figs. 1 and 2. Show, in plan and profile, the teeth from Attock of theTapiroid animal described at page 416 under the designation ofAntoletherium. The figures have been copied from the pencildrawings by Col. Baker referred to in the text, and are three-fourths of the natural size. Figs. 3, 4, and 5. Three different views of the fossil vertebra fromJubbulpoor, described at page 418, one-third of the natural size. Figs. 6 and 7. Two views, in plan and profile, of the antepenultimateupper left molar of Mastodon {Trilophodon) Pandionis. Thespecimen thus identified in Dr. Falconers handwriting was foundin his private collection, and has been deposited in the Palse-ontological Gallery of the British Museum. The drawing isabout two-fifths of the natural size. (See page 124.) VOL. I, Plate 1, ZAatoletliemim. 3,4,5,1ossil Vertel^ra frcm Jabbulpoar. ^™^™«?6,7. Ma,stO(ioii Pandionis. FOSSIL REMAINS FEOJI ATTOCK. 417 the Medical College of Calcutta, and had assisted him inediting the Catalogue of Fossils in the Museum of theAsiatic Society. He died in 1857.—Ed.] Found among Walkers papers two rough sketches—sideand plan. The one is evidently of a form closely allied toDinotherium. Oldhams specimens comprise two teeth,both apparently three-ridged, considered by Walker betweenDinotherium and Diprotodon, the other regarded by him asof Mastodon latidens, but evidently the same specimen asBakers drawing of the Attock tapiroid form from , Walkers sketch throws a new light on it. Thetooth (A), as m Bakers drawing, shows two ridges, both wornand connected by means of a bridge. The middle molar (B)shows three ridges, all much worn and confluent into a co
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