. A guide to the fossil mammals and birds in the Department of Geology and Palæontology in the British Museum (Natural History) .. . ir to assume they were a distinct variety,probably the result of isolation in a limited area where theymay have suffered from a scanty supply of food, and so becomedwarfed. Sub-order 2.—Hyracoidea (Conies). Hyrax This sub-order contains a single family of diminutive plan- (Conies). tigrade mammals, whose affinities have long been a puzzle to zoologists. Formerly placed by Cuvier near to Rhinoceros, they _4 mblypoda—Coryphodon. 25 have latterly, by Harder, Flower,
. A guide to the fossil mammals and birds in the Department of Geology and Palæontology in the British Museum (Natural History) .. . ir to assume they were a distinct variety,probably the result of isolation in a limited area where theymay have suffered from a scanty supply of food, and so becomedwarfed. Sub-order 2.—Hyracoidea (Conies). Hyrax This sub-order contains a single family of diminutive plan- (Conies). tigrade mammals, whose affinities have long been a puzzle to zoologists. Formerly placed by Cuvier near to Rhinoceros, they _4 mblypoda—Coryphodon. 25 have latterly, by Harder, Flower, and others, been constitutedas a distinct group. Only two genera, Hyrax and DendroJiyrax, are known, seerecent Alanmialian Gallery, South-west side (Case 10, DivisionA.) ; they are found in Africa, at the Cape, and in Abyssinia,thence they extend into Arabia, Syria, and Palestine. No fossilremains of these little mammals have, as yet, been described. Sub-order 3.—Amblypoda. Here are placed the remains of Coryphodon, from the Lower of Harwich, Essex; and from Dulwich, near London; Pier-case, No. 20. A B. Fig. 33.—(A) the left upper, and (B) the left lower, cheek-dentition of CoryphodonMarsh), from the Eocene of North America (from Prof. Marshs Monographof the Dinocerata).
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